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Posted by: Stephen Winick
In our last post, we presented the text and photos of our 2016 mummers play, St. George and the Arrearage Monster: A Mumming in Process. Below, see a video of the play, shot on AFC’s trusty tablet by Jonathan Gold, our audio engineer. The acoustics in the Library’s Great Hall make it rather difficult to …
Posted in: christmas, Dance, Drama, Folk Drama, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, Holidays, Mumming
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: Every year, in the week of the Library’s holiday party, staff members of the American Folklife Center put our research and performance skills into play, bringing collections to life in a dramatic performance that tours the halls of the Library of Congress. Dressed in costumes that range from striking to silly, we sing, act, …
Posted in: christmas, Dance, England, Folk Drama, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, James Madison Carpenter, Mumming
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The following is a guest blog post by Sarah Lerner, who is currently an intern at AFC. For the past forty years the American Folklife Center has devoted countless hours to the documentation and preservation of our nation’s traditional arts, cultural expressions, and oral histories. Our work is supported and presented though a vocabulary defined …
Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, AFC Events, Appalachia, Bluegrass, Bourbon, Folk Music, Folklorists, Homegrown Concert Series, Jean Ritchie, Kentucky, Material Culture, Millennials
Posted by: Stephen Winick
For the last two weekends of November, 2016, AFC was honored to be featured on The Thistle & Shamrock, the long-running and popular Celtic music show produced and hosted by Fiona Ritchie and distributed by NPR. If you want to hear the shows, follow the links to part 1 here and part 2 here. The …
Posted in: Appalachia, Celtic Music, Fiona Ritchie, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, ireland, Irish Americans, Jean Ritchie, Radio, Scotland, Thistle & Shamrock
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: this is the third in a series of posts about a classic item from the AFC archive, “The Dodger.” [See the first post here.] [See the second post here.][See the third post here.] Second note: we’ve also created a podcast version of these stories. Download our “Dodger” podcast here! Election Day is less than …
Posted in: Aaron Copland, AFC History, Charles Seeger, Dodger, ethnomusicologists, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, John Lomax, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Uncategorized
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: this is the second in a series of posts about a classic item from the AFC archive, “The Dodger.” [See the first post here.] [See the second post here.][See the third post here.] Second note: we’ve also created a podcast version of these stories. Download our “Dodger” podcast here! In this post, I’ll present …
Posted in: Aaron Copland, Dodger, Folk Music, Folksong, Sidney Robertson Cowell
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: this is the first in a series of posts about a classic item from the AFC archive, “The Dodger.” [See the first post here.] [See the second post here.][See the third post here.] Second note: we’ve also created a podcast version of these stories. Download our “Dodger” podcast here! As Election Day draws near, …
Posted in: Aaron Copland, Alan Lomax, Charles Lafayette Todd, Charles Seeger, Dodger, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, John Lomax, Pete Seeger, Robert Sonkin, Sidney Robertson Cowell, U.S. Congress, Woody Guthrie
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This is a guest post by Maya Lerman, processing archivist at the American Folklife Center. She is writing occasional guest posts as she makes discoveries during the processing of the Izzy Young Collection. Her first post on the collection can be found here. The Izzy Young Collection documents the folk revival of the late 1950s …
Posted in: Folk Music, Folksong, Old Time Music, Uncategorized
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The following post is part of a series of blog posts about the 40th Anniversary Year of the American Folklife Center. Visit this link to see them all! As I mentioned in last week’s post, all of us at AFC are happy to congratulate Billy McComiskey on winning a National Heritage Fellowship Award from the …
Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, AFC Events, AFC History, Celtic Music, Folk Music, Homegrown Concert Series, ireland, Irish American History, Irish Americans