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Archive: July 2019 (11 Posts)

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Homegrown Plus: Alash Ensemble Performs the Music of Tuva

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

In the Homegrown Plus series, we present Homegrown concerts that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post. (Find the whole series here!) We’re continuing the series with a concert and oral history with the Alash Ensemble The Alash Ensemble are masters of techniques for singing multiple pitches at …

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Occupational Folklife on the Folklife Today Podcast

Posted by: Stephen Winick

Episode Nine 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 episode, John Fenn and I discuss occupational folklife and its place at the American Folklife Center, with special emphasis on the Center’s …