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Festival Programs by Year

Festival Programs in alphabetical order

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Programs by year 


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1967 
Performance: American fife and drum groups; brass bands; string bands; gospel; shouts; jubilees; spirituals; Puerto Rican music; New Orleans jazz; Cajun music; ballads; Mesquakie Indian music; blues; country music; polka music; cowboy songs; clogging; Scottish, Russian, Irish dancers; Chinese New Year's Pantomime; King Island Eskimo dancers; dance of Galicia    

Crafts: American basket makers, carvers, doll makers, needleworkers, potters, blacksmith, silversmith, spinners, weavers

1968 
Texas

Native American Program: Lummi Indians 

City-Country Area: Blues, bluegrass, jazz, gospel, Cajun, Basque, Indian, dancers, ballad singers

Crafts: Butter churning; sheep shearing; soap, candy, sorghum making; milling    

1969 
Pennsylvania

Performance: French singers from New Hampshire and Louisiana; Grand Ole Opry performers; Turkish, Afro-Cuban, Greek singers and dancers; ballad singers; string bands; fife and drum bands; blues; shouts; jubilees; spirituals

Crafts: Sheep shearing and wool processing, corn culture, Seminole Indian crafts, carvers and toy makers, doll makers, blacksmiths, basket maker, potter

Toby Show: Traditional Touring Tent Theater

1970
Arkansas

Native American Program: Southern Plains Indians

Performance: Spanish, Irish, and Scottish bagpipers; country; bluegrass music; southern blues; Sacred Harp; Portuguese-American Fado musicians; Chinese dragon dancers; shouts; spirituals; jubilees; string bands; East European folk songs

Crafts: Dairy traditions     

1971 
Ohio

Native American Program: Northwest Coast Indians

Labor Program: Meat cutters and butchers; bakery and confectionery workers; glass bottle blowers; bridge, structural, and ornamental iron workers

Performance: Puerto Rican music and dance, Cajun music, country music, ragtime, shouts, jubilees, work songs, blues, Caribbean music and dance, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, old-time banjo and fiddle music
   
1972 
Maryland

Native American Program: Southwest Indians

Labor Program: ILGWU, lithographers and photoengravers, carpenters and joiners, molders and allied workers

Performance: Chicago blues, old-time country blues, gospel, First Annual Fiddlers' Convention
 
   
1973 
Kentucky

Native American Program: Northern Plains Indians

Working Americans: Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, stone masons, lathers, bricklayers, plasterers, millwrights, operating engineers, pipe fitters, sheet metal workers, steam fitters

Old Ways in the New World: Britain, Yugoslavia

1974 
Mississippi

Native American Program: California tribes (Tolowa, Pomo, Hoopa, Yurok, Karok, Luiseno, Maidu, Cahuilla), Basin/Plateau tribes (Paiute, Shoshone, Kaibab, Northern Ute, Ute Mountain, Southern Ute, Nez Perce), Creek, Cherokee, Eskimo, Acoma, Athabaskan, Jemez, Laguna

Working Americans: Graphic artists, radio operators (amateur/commercial)

Old Ways in the New World: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Tunisia, Greece

African Diaspora: Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago, Nigeria, Caribbean

Children's Program

Family Folklore

Performance: Evolution of American Folk Music 

1975 
Regional America: Northern Plains, California Heartland

Native American Program: Iroquois Confederacy

Working Americans: Railroad workers, aircraft employees, truckers, seafarers

Old Ways in the New World: Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Japan, Mexico

African Diaspora: Jamaica, Ghana, Haiti

Children's Program

Family Folklore
 
1976 
Regional America: Northeast, Great Lakes, South, Upland South, Heartland, Great West, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest

Native American Program: Tribes from the Northeast, Southeast, Southern Plains, Prairie, Northern Plains, Northwest Coast, Southwest, Plateau, Basin, Northern California, Arctic

Working Americans: Workers Who Feed Us, Workers Who Extract and Shape, Workers Who Build, Workers in Technical and Professional Skills, Workers Who Clothe Us, Workers in Communications, Arts and Recreation

Old Ways in the New World: Germany, Pakistan, Mexico, South America, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Egypt, Greece, Japan, Austria, India, France, Poland, Britain, Portugal, Israel, Romania, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy

African Diaspora: Ghana, Jamaica, Haiti, Liberia, Trinidad & Tobago, Nigeria, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Zaire, Suriname, Senegal, Cape Verde

Children's Program

Family Folklore

 
1977 
Virginia

Native American Program: Ojibwa, Tolowa, San Juan Pueblo, Navajo, Seneca

Working Americans: Folklore in Your Community (D.C. cab drivers, bartenders, vendors, Capitol building workers)

Energy and Community: America's Appetite (for Energy)

Nation of Nations: Dunham School, Ellis Island/Immigrant lore, baseball bat turning, ethnic foods

Crafts: Paint on wood/crafting with natural fibers 

1978 
Native American Community: San Juan Pueblo of New Mexico (NMNH)

Occupational Community: Organ builders, sleeping car porters, sharecroppers

Energy and Community: Oil and coal industry workers

Ethnic Community: Ellis Island and American Immigration

Regional Community: Chesapeake Bay, Smith Island

Mexican Communities

1979 
Energy and Community: Native American architecture

Folklore in Your Community: Baseball players, CB radio operators, firefighters, gospel singers, market vendors, neighborhood store owners, stone carvers, street hawkers, cab drivers, Vietnamese community

Children's Program

Medicine Show

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1980 
Old Ways in the New World: Caribbean Americans, Southeast Asian Americans, Finnish Americans

Energy and Community: Folk housing and energy efficiency, community activities, food preservation

American Talkers: Auctioneers, pitchmen, street criers
   
1981 
Regional America: Southeastern U.S. music and crafts, Northeastern music and dance

Native American Program: Ojibwa Indians

Old Ways in the New World: South Slavic Americans

Energy and Community: Adobe architecture

Children's Program

Folklore of the Deaf

American Tent Show

National Endowment for the Arts Program

1982 
Oklahoma

Korea

Children's Program

National Endowment for the Arts Program

1983 
New Jersey

France

Occupational Culture: Flight

NEA: National Heritage Awards
   
1984 
Alaska

The Grand Generation: Folklore and Aging

Black Urban Expressive Culture from Philadelphia
   
1985 
Louisiana

India: Mela! 

Cultural Conservation: Makah and Puerto Rican mask makers; African American cornrowers; Kmhmu craftsmen; Seneca basket makers; Appalachian balladry; Cajun music, cowboy music, song, and poetry; Irish music; Mayan marimba music; Mayan Indian weaving

1986 
Tennessee

Japan

Cultural Conservation (Traditional Crafts in a Post  Industrial Age): Cherokee and split-oak basketry, Hispanic weaving and woodcarving, Hmong embroidery, African American quilting, Italian American stone carving, Zuni and Southern pottery, rag-rug weaving

American Trial Lawyers

20th Anniversary Music Stage  

1987 
Michigan

Cultural Conservation (Cultural Conservation and Languages: America's Many Voices): Appalachian community, Chinese-American community, Lao-American community, Mexican-American community

Metropolitan Washington
    
1988 
Ingenuity and Tradition: The Common Wealth of Massachusetts

Cultural Conservation: American Folklore Society Centennial

Migration to Metropolitan Washington: Making a New Place Home

Music from the Peoples of the Soviet Union: Music and performance from Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Tuva, Yakutsk

Festival Music Stage: Bluegrass, Piedmont blues, Cajun and Puerto Rican music, American Indian performance, double-dutch jump roping
  
1989 
Hawai'i

Cultural Conservation (American Indian Program): Problems of access and cultural continuity among peoples of the Iroquois Nation, and Yaqui, Washoe, Paiute, Shoshone, Ojibwa, and Northern Plains tribes

"Les Fêtes Chez Nous": France and North America

Quincentenary Program (The Caribbean: Cultural Encounters in the New World): Musicians, dancers, and cooks from Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba

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1990 
U.S. Virgin Islands

Senegal

Musics of Struggle
    
1991 
Family Farming in the Heartland

Indonesia: Forest, Field, and Sea

Land in Native American Cultures

Roots of Rhythm and Blues: The Robert Johnson Era
  
1992 
New Mexico

Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Culture in the Americas

Workers at the White House

The Changing Soundscape in Indian Country
   
1993 
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

American Social Dance

Metro Music

Kids' Stuff

1994 
Masters of Traditional Arts: National Heritage Fellowships

The Bahamas

Thailand

Culture and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

1995 
Cape Verdean Connection

Russian Roots/American Branches

Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women

Czech Republic: Tradition and Transformation
  
1996 
Iowa—Community Style

American South

Working at the Smithsonian
   
1997 
Mississippi Delta

African Immigrant Folklife

Sacred Sounds
   
1998 
Wisconsin

Rio Grande/río Bravo Basin

Baltic Nations: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Pahiyas: A Philippine Harvest

Folkways 50th
 
1999
Celebrating New Hampshire's Stories

Gateways to Romania

South Africa: Crafting the Economic Renaissance of the Rainbow Nation

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2000 
El Río

Tibetan Culture: Beyond the Land of Snows

Washington, D.C.: It's Our Home
    
2001 
New York City at the Smithsonian

Masters of the Building Arts

Bermuda Connections
    
2002 
Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust      

2003
Scotland at the Smithsonian

Mali: From Timbuktu to Washington

Appalachia: Heritage and Harmony    

2004
Water Ways: Mid-Atlantic Maritime Communities

Haiti: Freedom and Creativity from the Mountains to the Sea

Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture

2005
Food Culture USA

Oman: Desert, Oasis, and Sea

Forest Service, Culture, and Community

Nuestra Música

2006
Alberta at the Smithsonian

Carriers of Culture: Living Native Basket Traditions

Been in the Storm So Long: New Orleans Evening Concert Series

Nuestra Música: Latino Chicago

2007
Mekong River: Connecting Cultures

Northern Ireland at the Smithsonian

Roots of Virginia Culture 

 

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