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The Ramogi Dancers, from Homa Bay County, are part of the Luo community in Western Kenya.
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an interactive festival where audience members engage directly with visiting artists to learn about their music, crafts, cooking, and more.
Poet G Yamazawa throws down some powerful rhymes on Diaspora Day at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Want to revisit your favorite moments of the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival? We’ve put together a selection of our favorite visitor photographs
The Zhejiang Wu Opera Troupe's Dragon Dance was a 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival crowd favorite.
Banjo player and music scholar Tony Seeger, nephew of the late American icon and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist Pete Seeger (1919–2014)
Wu Man, a virtuoso pipa player, concluded her performance at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival with a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the Chinese traditional lute.
Hailing from the mountainous region of southern China and Guizhou province,the Leishan Miao Music and Dance Group came to the Festival to perform a variety of simple and elaborate dances, as well as songs for voice and on the lusheng.
The Leishan Miao Music and Dance Group performs the Dance of the Golden Pheasant at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.