People who immigrate as adults must overcome many challenges, but what hardships do their children face?

For fifty years, the Folklife Festival has been creating once-in-a-lifetime experiences with our participants and visitors.

At Basque festivals, sporting events, and other ceremonial gatherings, it is traditional to invite bertsolariak to the stage to sing a greeting in rhymed verse.

No, these aren't hula hoops. They are symbols of the seasons, the cardinal directions, and the diversity of our nation’s people.

Although they were relocated indoors due to the hot summer storm ensuing outside, there couldn’t have been a better venue to hear the rich harmonies of NOKA and Mikel Markez.

In many ways, the 2016 Folklife Festival represented a rallying cry, an alliance, a remarkable display of kinship and respect. Artists, musicians, and performers celebrated their cultural identities

Beautiful landscape, delicious food, and melodious vocals—within this one song, the Biotzetik Basque Choir from Boise, Idaho, encapsulates three of the distinctive features of Basque culture.

Smiles creep onto the performers’ faces as they catch each other’s eye, their uninhibited joy infecting the crowd.

Outside the Basque community, Kalakan is best known for accompanying Madonna on her 2012 MDNA tour. Within their community, they are rock stars in their own right

Although busily carving a piece for the Smithsonian at the time, Basque stonecarver Bernat Vidal happily agreed to put his work aside when we asked if he had time for an interview.