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The 2014 Folklife Festival has now officially come to an end for the participant staff.
Crowd favorites Ih Tsetsn often got audiences at Moonrise Pavilion hopping, stomping, and spinning with this upbeat love song, "The Handsome Horse."
Suzanna Owiyo was born in Kisumu, Kenya, and blends traditional instruments from that western region with contemporary pop music.
If you attended the 2014 Folklife Festival, you may have seen a group of stately, rainbow-ribbon-bedecked Kenyan men getting stopped often for photographs
Kenyan singer Iddi Achieng’ performed at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s “Divas Night: Homage to Kenyan Women in Music,”
Under the simple white tent labeled “Adornment Arts” in the Kenya: Mambo Poa program area, three women concentrated intensely on their work.
Isaac Kibe is an artist from Kitengela Glass outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Over the two weeks of the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The closing day of the 2014 Folklife Festival began with an all-participant photo on the steps of the National Museum of Natural History and ended with a blowout party of the hotel—but we won’t share photos of that!
Kenyan master stone carver Elkana Ong’esa, Smithsonian paleoanthropologist Rick Potts
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