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Posted by: Stephen Winick
This week, AFC staff conducted a brief fieldwork session for our podcast, also called Folklife Today. Although the episode we’re working on in this photo won’t be ready for a while, you can listen to previous episodes at this link! On the podcast, we often create audio versions of our most popular blog posts, and …
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Posted by: Stephen Winick
In the Homegrown Plus series, and the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus series, we present Homegrown concerts and Botkin lectures that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post. (Find the whole Homegrown Plus series here, and find the whole Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus series here.) For Jewish-American Heritage Month, …
Posted in: Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus, Homegrown Plus
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Concert and oral history with Jayme Stone's Folklife, which brings together the Juno-winning banjo player with distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and reimagine traditional music.
Posted in: Homegrown Plus, Old Time Music
Posted by: Stephen Winick
May 3, 2019, would have been Pete Seeger’s 100th birthday. Summing up what Pete meant and still means to us is difficult, but I tried my best in the wake of Pete’s death with the tribute post at this link. Rather than summing up again for his hundredth birthday, I thought I’d highlight one …
Posted in: AFC Events, Obituaries, Pete Seeger
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Episode seven of the Folklife Today Podcast is ready for listening! Find it at this page on the Library’s website, or on iTunes, or with your usual podcatcher. Get your podcast here! In this fascinating episode (we hope!), John Fenn and I, along with Library of Congress staff members Stephanie Hall, Michelle Stefano, and Muhannad Salhi, …
Posted in: Hidden Folklorists, Podcasts