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Plan Your Visit to the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival The 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens in two weeks! Join us on the National Mall between Fourth and Seventh streets in Washington, D.C., June 29–July 4 and July 7–10 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with special events beginning at 6:30 p.m. Want to kick off the event with us? Join us in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building on June 29 at 10 a.m. for the opening ceremony. See the full schedule of events Some upcoming events in Washington, D.C.: |
 Huib Schippers Named Next Director and Curator of Smithsonian Folkways Musician, scholar, educator, and former record store manager Huib Schippers has been named the new director and curator of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Schippers is the third director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings since it began in 1987, when the institution acquired Folkways Records from the family of founder Moses Asch. |
Smithsonian Folkways Acquires Arhoolie Records We have acquired the revered Arhoolie Records, which is known for “down home” blues, folk, jazz, country, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Mexican American, and world music. The acquisition includes more than 350 albums released since 1960, featuring artists such as Clifton Chenier, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Flaco Jiménez, Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Mama Thornton, Bukka White, and Big Joe Williams. Until the albums are available on folkways.si.edu later this year, you can browse the Arhoolie catalog on Amazon and Spotify. |
July 3 Concert Celebrates NEA National Heritage Fellows The 2016 Ralph Rinzler Memorial Concert at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrates 50 years of the National Endowment for the Arts and previews a 2017 Festival program by featuring extraordinary musicians from across the country who have received the NEA National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s highest award for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. Performers include Jerry Douglas, Rahim AlHaj, and The Chuck Brown Band. This free concert starts at 6:30 p.m. on the Ralph Rinzler Concert Stage. |
We need your help to make the Festival a success. Volunteers are critical to the Festival and work closely with participants and staff. They support our sustainability efforts, interact with visitors at the information booths, help with audiovisual documentation, translate and interpret for participants, and more. Basque, Spanish, and French speakers are encouraged to apply. |
Share Your Experience of Being on the Move Help us create a map of human migration and the concept of “home” by taking an anonymous survey. See your story incorporated onto a digital world map online and in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building as part of the 2016 Festival’s On the Move: Migration and Immigration Today programming. |
Subscriber Discount: Vinyl Edition of Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs The remastered, 180-gram vinyl edition of the classic 1962 Folkways album Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs, previously available only via Vinyl Me, Please, is now available in very limited quantities to our newsletter subscribers at a discounted price! |
| Subscriber Discount: Enter code SFBROONZY and save 20% off this album through June 30. |
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Images (top to bottom): 1) Pilota (Basque handball). Photo courtesy of Basquetour. 2) Huib Schippers, director and curator of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Photo courtesy of Huib Schippers. 3) Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records (right) with Mississippi Fred McDowell. Photo courtesy of Chris Strachwitz. 4) Rinzler Memorial Concert artist photos. Photos courtesy of the artists. 5) Volunteer at the Folklife Festival. Photo by Rachel Winslow, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives. 6) Photo documentation interns show off the world map in the 2011 Folklife Festival’s Peace Corps program. Photo by Paula Rylands, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives. 7) Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs album cover. |
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