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When Mark Bilyeu and Cindy Woolf walked into the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, it wasn’t the first time the musical duo performed on the national stage.
At the Festival, Cory Perry mulled over the significance of working on the National Mall as a Black queer artist from the Ozarks.
The Creek Rocks drew from the collections of John Quincy Wolf and Max Hunter as a way to commemorate their respective hometowns and the region’s musical legacy.
The evangelical songs of Zion do not begin to exhaust the sounds of Ozarks religion.
While these Ozark boating traditions vary in materials, styles, and geographies of origin, they were brought together at the Folklife Festival.
The Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building afforded ideal acoustics for a one-time-only round robin of a cappella ballads.
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