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James Lovell, a musician and educator from New York City, joins the group Libaya Baba of Los Angeles to perform a traditional song in the endangered Garifuna language.
Ben Bahan, professor of American Sign Language and deaf studies at Gallaudet University, and his student Rhonda Jennings shared humorous tales in ASL as part of the One World, Many Voices program.
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is very saddened to learn of the recent passing of musician Elkin de Jesús Meneses Rojo, a participant in the Colombia: The Nature of Culture program
Koro is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, India, with an estimated six to eight hundred speakers. Khandu Degio
The performances of Urban Artistry, an international collective of artists and dancers, reveal how street culture aligns music and dance with dress.
Szalonna and his Band, renowned members of the Hungarian National Folk Ensemble, teamed up with Roma fiddler István “Kiscsipás” Varga to perform traditional Hungarian
Want to revisit your favorite moments of the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival? We’ve put together a selection of dazzling visitor photographs in our Best of the Festival Gallery to help you do just that.
A crowd favorite at the 2013 Folklife Festival was the Garifuna drumming and dance group.
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