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The daf is part of the family of frame drums found throughout the world.
Growing up in Chicago within a family that included many DJs, Duane imbibed a culture of mixing music from an early age.
The dance is more than movement and even spirit; it’s also storytelling.
Sasha Daucus focuses on Ayurveda, a form of traditional Indian medicine that classifies plants into five elements.
The Ozark Highballers are a four-person string band based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The artists discussed how their beliefs inform their respective artistic traditions and how they commemorate the people who came before them.
It is evident how folk songs take on new meanings as they are performed in response to the current war.
The oldest hills. The clearest water. The roughest, most rugged, and unforgiving terrain, yet the most heartbreakingly beautiful landscape.
For Guatemalan alfombra de aserrín (sawdust carpet) artists, the physical act of creating their art far surpasses its short-lived ephemeral reality.
Originally from Jeddito, Arizona, Kevin Aspaas first learned to weave when he was ten years old.
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