This installment of our Festival Audio series features musicians from the Heveder Folk Music Ensemble who are appearing at this year’s Hungarian Heritage program.

At the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Andris Padilla Julio, a Palenque percussionist and community youth leader, has an impromptu musical conversation with Alexandro Hernández

At the heart of this year’s One World, Many Languages program is a number of wonderful musical groups. Hatun Kotama hail from a small town in Ecuador and sing in Kichwa, a UNESCO-declared endangered language.

József Oláh, member of the Roma music ensemble Parno Graszt, laughed heartily when I asked him the meaning of the group’s name.

The An-Sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble performed on the “Voices of the World Stage” at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

The choral musical tradition widespread in southwestern China’s Dong communities is an a cappella polyphony.

Szék is a town in central Transylvania, Romania, with a large ethnic Hungarian population.

Since 1971 The Seldom Scene, a progressive bluegrass band, has been delighting fans around the world with their unique blend of bluegrass infused with country music, rock and classical pop.

Renowned Hungarian vocalist Eszter Bíró performed Jewish klezmer music with her band.

Prior to my first trip to Ecuador in 2010, I spent my teenage summers combing through stacks of CDs sold by Otavalan merchants at venues like the Great New York State Fair.