Want to revisit your favorite moments of the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival? We’ve put together a selection of our favorite visitor photographs
The Zhejiang Wu Opera Troupe's Dragon Dance was a 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival crowd favorite.
Banjo player and music scholar Tony Seeger, nephew of the late American icon and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist Pete Seeger (1919–2014)
Wu Man, a virtuoso pipa player, concluded her performance at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival with a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the Chinese traditional lute.
Hailing from the mountainous region of southern China and Guizhou province,the Leishan Miao Music and Dance Group came to the Festival to perform a variety of simple and elaborate dances, as well as songs for voice and on the lusheng.
The Leishan Miao Music and Dance Group performs the Dance of the Golden Pheasant at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
My high school offers an end-of-year program for graduating seniors, Senior Experience, during which we complete a three-week internship instead of going to the last three weeks of class.
We learn a lot through the stories we share. Whether they are in conversation with a Festival participant on the National Mall or on one of our many social media platforms
Founded in 1956, the Zhejiang Wu Opera Troupe both revives traditional works (some more than four hundred years old) and creates new ones.