The Sanaa Circle, a friends group of the National Museum of African Art, will present a panel in the Smithsonian’s Ripley Center Pavilion, Friday, June 7, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.;
Literally translated as “herdsman soup,” but commonly known as goulash, gulyásleves can be traced back to the ancient nomadic tribe of Magyars
The harmonica is an instrument synonymous with all genres of American music—Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan used it in their classics ballads
Januwa Moja discusses her experiences growing up in Civil Rights-era Baltimore and the insights that both led her to become a designer and influenced her art.
Things are cooking in Prince George’s County as the tech crew starts stretching canvas, painting, sawing wood, and making dance floors on which we will all soon be boogying, Hungarian style.
Arfon Gwilym, Robin Huw Bowen, and Sioned Webb sing a traditional plygain carol in Welsh.
Dr. Olive Lewin—renowned Jamaican musicologist, folklorist, singer, actress, and community servant—transitioned last week at the age of eighty-five.
We remember her reflective calm, her serious gaze, her steady pace, her deep commitment and respect for the profundity of expressive life imagined and made by ordinary people.
Amid the flurry of production for the upcoming 2013 Folklife Festival, we take a glimpse back at some of our past programs.
Raised in the capital city of Bratislava, Slovakia, Zsuzsa Cselenyi was instilled with a strong sense of pride in her Hungarian heritage as a child
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