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I have to admit that the Smithsonian Festival left me deeply touched and amazed
Check out these five playlists of Smithsonian Folkways tracks related to the 2011 Festival programs.
From the Southeastern Plains of Colombia, Cabrestero performs the joropo music that is an important part of the region's cattle-ranching culture
Dozens of Colombian craftspeople participated in the 2011 Festival
On the last day of the Festival, July 11, musicians from Chirimía la Contundencia (Quibdó, Colombia) and the Monitors (Wilson County, North Carolina) combined their distinct sounds during a wind instrument "cross program" jam on the Motor City Stage.
As a participant in the Smithsonian’s Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA), I was invited to be a volunteer in the Folklife Festival
Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day ten of the Festival.
While the 2011 Festival is now over, we hope you'll keep uploading those gorgeous images to our Festival Flickr site
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