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Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Festival Programs by Year

Festival Programs in alphabetical order

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Programs in alphabetical order 


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Program Year
20th Anniversary Music 1986
African Diaspora 1974
African Diaspora 1975
African Diaspora 1976
African Immigrant Folklife 1997
Alaska 1984
Alberta 2006
American Indian Access to Resources 1989
American Social Dance 1993

American South 
(see also Mississippi; Mississippi Delta)

1996
American Talkers 1980
American Tent Show 1981
Appalachia: Heritage and Harmony 2003
Arkansas 1970
Bahamas (The) 1994
Baltic Nations: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 1998
Been in the Storm So Long: New Orleans Evening Concert Series 2006
Bermuda Connections 2001
Black Urban Expressive Culture from Philadelphia 1984
Cape Verdean Connection 1995
Caribbean (The) 1989
Carriers of Culture: Living Native Basket Traditions 2006
Changing Soundscape in Indian Country
(see also Heartbeat; Native Americans)
1992
Chicago (Nuestra Música: Latino Chicago) 2006
Children's Program 1979
Children's Program 1981
Children's Program
(see also Kids' Stuff)
1982
City-Country 1968
Crafts 1967
Cultural Conservation 1985
Cultural Conservation 1986
Cultural Conservation: Language 1987
Culture and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1994
Czech Republic: Tradition and Transformation 1995
El Río
(see also Rio Grande; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands)
2000
Energy and Community 1977
Energy and Community 1978
Energy and Community 1979
Energy and Community 1980
Energy and Community 1981
Ethnic Community 1978
Family Farming in the Heartland 1991
Family Folklore 1974
Family Folklore 1975
Family Folklore 1976
Festival Music Stage 1988
Folklore in Your Community 1979
Folklore of the Deaf 1981
Folkways 50th 1998
France
(see also France and French-speaking North Americans)
1983
Food Culture USA
(see also Traditional Foodways)
2005
Forest Service, Culture, and Community 2005
France and French-speaking North Americans
(see also France)
1989
France and French-speaking North Americans 1989
Grand Generation: Folklore and Aging 1984
Haiti: Freedom and Creativity from the Mountains to the Sea 2004
Hawaii 1989
Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women
(see also Changing Soundscape in Indian Country; Native Americans)
1995
India (Mela! An Indian Fair) 1985
Indonesia: Forest, Field, and Sea 1991
Iowa—Community Style 1996
Japan 1986
Kentucky 1973
Kids' Stuff
(see also Children's Program)
1993
Korea 1982
Labor 1971
Labor
(see also Working Americans)
1972
Land and Power 1991
Louisiana 1985
Lummi Indians 1968
Mali: From Timbuktu to Washington 2003
Maroons (Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Culture in the Americas) 1992
Maryland 1972
Massachusetts (Ingenuity and Tradition: The Common Wealth of Massachusetts) 1988
Masters of the Building Arts 2001
Masters of Tradition: National Heritage Awardees
(see also NEA: National Heritage Awards)
1994
Medicine Show 1979
Metro Music 1993
Metropolitan Washington
(see also Metro Music;Washington, D.C.)
1979
Mexican Community 1978
Michigan 1987
Migration to Washington, D.C. 1988
Mississippi
(see also American South; Mississippi)
1974
Mississippi Delta
(see also American South; Mississippi Delta)
1997
Music in Metropolitan Washington, D.C. 1993
Music of the Soviet Union 1988
Music of Washington 1987
Musics of Struggle 1990
Nation of Nations 1977
Native American Community 1978
Native Americans 1974
Native Americans 1975
Native Americans 1976
Native Americans 1977
Native Americans
(see also Changing Soundscape in Indian Country; Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women; Carriers of Culture)
1981
Native Basketry (Carriers of Culture: Living Native Basket Traditions) 2006
NEA: National Heritage Awards 1982
NEA: National Heritage Awards
(see also Masters of Tradition: National Heritage Awardees)
1983
New Hampshire (Celebrating New Hampshire's Stories) 1999
New Jersey 1983
New Mexico 1992
New Orleans (Been in the Storm So Long) 2006
New York City at the Smithsonian 2001
Northern Plains Indians 1973
Northwest Coast Indians
(see also Native Americans)
1971
Nuestra Música: Latino Chicago 2006
Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture 2004
Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture 2005
Occupational Community 1978
Occupational Culture: Flight
(see also Working Americans)
1983
Ohio 1971
Ojibwa Indians
(see also Native Americans)
1981
Oklahoma 1982
Old Ways in the New World 1973
Old Ways in the New World 1974
Old Ways in the New World 1975
Old Ways in the New World 1976
Old Ways in the New World 1980
Old Ways in the New World 1981
Oman: Desert, Oasis, and Sea 2005
Pennsylvania 1969
Performances 1967
Philippines (Pahiyas: A Philippine Harvest) 1998
Regional America 1975
Regional America 1976
Regional America 1981
Regional Community: Chesapeake Bay, Smith Island
(see also Water Ways)
1978
Rinzler Concert 1995
Rinzler Concert: Appalachian Musical Traditions 1996
Rinzler Concert: Old-Time Music and Dance 1997
Rinzler Concert: Yiddish Music 1998
Rinzler Concert: Traditional Music for the Wedding 1999
Rinzler Concert: Singer/Songwriter Peggy Seeger 2000
Rinzler Concert: Songs of Struggle 2001
Rinzler Concert: Music from Bangladesh, Turkey, and India 2002
Rinzler Concert: Songs by the Carter Family 2003
Rinzler Concert: Gospel Traditions from Maryland and Virginia 2004
Rinzler Concert: Native American Christian Music 2005
Rio Grande/río Bravo Basin
(see also El Río; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands)
1998
Romania (Gateways to Romania) 1999
Roots of Rhythm and Blues: The Robert Johnson Era 1991
Russian Roots/American Branches: Music in Two Worlds 1995
Sacred Sounds 1997
Scotland at the Smithsonian 2003
Senegal 1990
Silk Road (The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust) 2002
South Africa: Creating the Economic Renaissance of the Rainbow Nation 1999
Southern Plains Indians
(see also Native Americans)
1970
Southwest Indians
(see also Native Americans)
1972
Soviet Union (Music from the Peoples of the Soviet Union 1988
Tennessee 1986
Texas 1968
Thailand: Household, Temple Fair & Court 1994
Tibetan Culture Beyond the Land of Snows 2000
Traditional Foodways
(see also Food Culture USA)
1984
Trial Lawyers 1986
U.S. Virgin Islands 1990
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
(see also El Río; Rio Grande)
1993
Virginia 1977
Washington, D.C.: It's Our Home
(see also Metro Music; Metropolitan Washington)
2000
Water Ways: Mid-Atlantic Maritime Communities 2004
Wisconsin 1998
Workers at the White House 1992
Working Americans 1973
Working Americans 1974
Working Americans 1975
Working Americans 1976
Working Americans 1977
Working at the Smithsonian 1996
American Folklore Society Centennial 1988



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