The 2013 Ralph Rinzler Memorial Concert pays tribute to Dr. Peter Seitel

Two Hungarian construction crews have arrived in Washington and are hard at work building fences and fashioning the intricate details of the Festival’s twenty-three-foot-tall Peacock Tower.

Both the Dixie Cups of New Orleans and The Jewels of Washington, D.C., began singing in the early 1960s.

Calling all photographers! The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Flickr Group is now open.

Few dishes are quite as rugged as Karcag Mutton Stew. The dish (Birkapörkölt in Hungarian) is often associated with the Nagykunság (Great Cumania) region of east-central Hungary

Thirteen miles east of the National Mall, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage supply and technical crews gear up for their big move to the Mall for the Festival.

The Sanaa Circle, a friends group of the National Museum of African Art, will present a panel in the Smithsonian’s Ripley Center Pavilion, Friday, June 7, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.;

Literally translated as “herdsman soup,” but commonly known as goulash, gulyásleves can be traced back to the ancient nomadic tribe of Magyars

Januwa Moja discusses her experiences growing up in Civil Rights-era Baltimore and the insights that both led her to become a designer and influenced her art.

Things are cooking in Prince George’s County as the tech crew starts stretching canvas, painting, sawing wood, and making dance floors on which we will all soon be boogying, Hungarian style.