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Inner Mongolian music ensemble Ih Tsetsn and American banjo player Abigail Washburn decided to meet on stage for a cross-cultural collaboration
Early visitors to the Folklife Festival Thursday morning were greeted with a “Karibuni!” at the Karibuni Workshop Stage.
Today over thirty children’s summer camps came to the Folklife Festival, exposing hundreds of young people to the sights and sounds of China and Kenya.
Hua’er folksongs, often about love and longing, are popular in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, along China’s Silk Road.
Bicycles are a common sight in China. Usually thought of as a tool, bikes are used as a way to get around or to haul goods.
After the close of the Folklife Festival’s first weekend, the chefs of the Flavors of Kenya stage have shown our visitors a wide variety of both traditional and modern Kenyan dishes.
With a heat index of 104⁰ in the capital today, Folklife Festival visitors might be more concerned with trying not to melt than with stopping to take in the arts and culture offered by participant artists.
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During a private reception honoring the sponsors and participants for the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, two musicians from Kenya, Polycarp Awino
Have you noticed the resource recovery stations at the Folklife Festival, with bins for compost, recycling, and landfill waste?
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