by Marlee Baron | Jan 16, 2020 | Site Visits
We spent Monday at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with two meetings, one about the Folkways Recording Label and the other about the Folklife Festival. Every summer since 1967 the Smithsonian has put on a roughly two week long festival on...
by Blake Ormond | Jan 16, 2020 | Site Visits
Even after doing research on Folkways Recording Label and learning about their 62 year history, I still wasn’t quite sure what to expect from our visit. Part of this uncertainty stemmed from my unclear definition of folk and what it means to be a folk artist. There is...
by Abigail Hansen | Jan 15, 2020 | Site Visits
“Everybody in, nobody out” became the cornerstone sentence for an organization that the Washington Post would later state, “has enriched the life of this community beyond any calculation.”[1] Washington Performing Arts was founded by Patrick...
