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Category: Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus

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Homegrown and Botkin Plus: Ethel Raim and the An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble

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

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Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus: Billy Bragg

Posted by: Stephen Winick

A look at a book talk and interview with Billy Bragg, which occurred at the Library on July 21, 2017. Billy came to the Library of Congress to talk about his book, Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World. While he was here, I teamed up with the award-winning radio personality Mary Sue Twohy of Sirius/XM Radio to do a deep-dive oral history on Billy's life and career. Both videos are right here on this page--just scroll down!

Posted in: Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus