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Swamp Dogg performs one more time at the Festival on Monday, July 4, at 1 p.m. on the Soulsville Stage
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival attracts many talented photographers every year. For the first time, we are choosing our favorite photos taken by our visitors, and featuring these images daily on the Folklife Festival homepage
Visitors, volunteers, and staff who make the Smithsonian Folklife Festival an annual event in their lives often collect Festival T-shirts. Here are photos of T-shirts from the past.
The artists performed and demonstrated for enthusiastic audiences on this third day of the Festival. Here is a selection of images from our photographers
From the Motor City Stage, Miss Martha Reeves shared stories from her career and took audience questions. Afterwards, she and her band brought the crowd to their feet
A glimpse of the Festival on July 1 through the lenses of some of the Smithsonian staff and volunteer photographers.
Walk down the National Mall today, and you will see about 65 white tents, and within them, you will hear the syncopated rhythm of hammers and electric tools, as our production crew finish the stages and demonstration area