This video features Mark Puryear, curator of the 2011 Folklife Festival program Rhythm and Blues: Tell It Like It Is.

This year, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival will offer a variety of specially designed apparel for purchase at the Marketplace

This video features James I. Deutsch, the curator of the 2011 Folklife Festival program The Peace Corps

This video features Olivia Cadaval, the curator of the 2011 Folklife Festival program Colombia: The Nature of Culture.

Introduction to the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and overview of Festival history.

The Colombia program is excitedly preparing for the arrival of Colombian mule driver Leonel de Jesús Loiza, who will demonstrate how people in the mountainous Coffee Region pack mules for transporting coffee and other products.

The Festival’s talented team this summer includes our supply clerk, Ms. Elizabeth Martin

The R&B program will present a fantastic line-up of artists. A special evening with Gamble and Huff is scheduled for July 10th; Miss Martha Reeves will be performing on July 1st; and a Soul Train dance party will be taking place on June 30th.

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival invites returned Peace Corps volunteers to visit the Peace Corps program area on the National Mall

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival team, along with the entire Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, mourns the April 2011 passing of Hazel Dickens, a revered songwriter and singer in country and bluegrass music