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Christylez Bacon puts a new twist on Go-Go music, merging those sounds with the "Human Beatbox."
Storyteller, Victoria Burnett, gives a lesson in BBC (Black Baptist Church) 101.
Storyteller and comedian, Phyllis Stickney, shares how her grandmother "Big Momma," influenced her childhood and storytelling.
Writer, director and actor, Roger Guenveur Smith, performs as the great American abolitionist, orator, and statesman Frederick Douglass.
Many alumni of the Asante Children's Theater continue with the Asante Touring Company. Here, they perform a piece from, "Martin Luther King Jr. in a Hip Hop World."
See performances that took place on the National Mall and go behind the scenes with curator James A. Robinson as he reflects on this Festival program.
Interview with Tom Nall, Cowboy Cook "Chili Ambassador."
The Gillette Brothers perform a traditional song with the banjo and bones.
Narrated by Diana Parker, the 2008 Festival Director and Amanda Pike, the Texas Program Coordinator.
The Jones Family Singers are a gospel group from Texas. Their songs have a "traditional feel with a contemporary flair." Here they perform an acappella piece.
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