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2014 Festival
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an experience of the senses, an invitation to see, taste, and smell.
During the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Makadem, a genuine entertainer, amused audiences with his “Anglo-Ohangla” style
Throughout the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, events took place on and off the National Mall.
Roughly one million visitors attend the Folklife Festival each year, engaging with tradition bearers from the United States and around the world.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the privilege of interning for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and have been given the opportunity to film and experience the amazing cultural exhibition that is the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
The 2014 Folklife Festival has now officially come to an end for the participant staff.
Crowd favorites Ih Tsetsn often got audiences at Moonrise Pavilion hopping, stomping, and spinning with this upbeat love song, "The Handsome Horse."
Suzanna Owiyo was born in Kisumu, Kenya, and blends traditional instruments from that western region with contemporary pop music.
If you attended the 2014 Folklife Festival, you may have seen a group of stately, rainbow-ribbon-bedecked Kenyan men getting stopped often for photographs
Kenyan singer Iddi Achieng’ performed at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s “Divas Night: Homage to Kenyan Women in Music,”
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