Willard and a team from MSU offered visitors the chance to milk a model cow and learn how thermal imaging can be used to pinpoint disease in livestock.

The Texas A&M University Water Project addresses potable water shortages by bringing students into the field to teach communities how to make ceramic point-of-use water filters.

In founding the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Othar Turner revitalized a style of country blues music integral to African American community life in the Mississippi Delta.

The Sweet Heaven Kings, an exhilarating brass ensemble, is made up of members of the United House of Prayer for All People in Anacostia

Gert McMullin is a living legend in AIDS Memorial Quilt lore for likely having touched nearly every single panel in it.

Surrounded by the UNUKUPUKUPU hula halau , I was once again struck by the centrality of the native Hawaiian language to the daily life and transmission of traditional culture

A big thank you to all of the photographers and videographers who shared their work on Flickr this year!

Here, Nati Cano, the founder of Mariachi Los Camperos, makes a special return on violin

University-based groups demonstrated not only how they draw on traditional music, but also how they help it thrive in a new generation.

I have volunteered and worked at several Smithsonian Folklife Festivals before, but I did not know what to anticipate when I went down to the Festival grounds on Sunday, July 1.