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Homegrown Concert Series Online Archive
All
of the materials from the Homegrown Concerts are available to visitors
in the Folklife Reading Room.
Select on the year of the concert or the name of the performer or group
to read the full descriptions and to access any additional materials
that may be
available
online. Concerts are available online as webcasts except as noted. Video and audio recordings of concerts not available as webcasts online are available at the Library of Congress in the Folklife Reading Room.
The Homegrown concert series presents the very best of traditional music, dance, and storytelling from a variety of folk cultures thriving in the United States.
All
concerts are free of charge and will not require tickets for admission.
Concerts will be presented from noon to 1 p.m. in the Thomas Jefferson
Building of the Library of Congress, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C.
The closest
Metro stops are Capitol South (blue and orange lines) and Union Station
(red line). For the current schedule of Homegrown Concerts, go to the What's Happening at the American Folklife Center page.
Homegrown concerts are produced by the American
Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in cooperation with the Kennedy
Center Millennium Stage and the Smithsonian's
National Museum of the American Indian.
Surati — Classical and Folk Indian Dance from New Jersey. November 19, 2008.
Bar J Wranglers — Cowboy Music from Wyoming. October 2, 2008.
The Bajich Brothers — Serbian-American Tambura Music from Kansas. September 17, 2008.
Gary Haleamau — Traditional Hawaiian Music from Las Vegas (The Ninth Island). August 20, 2008.
The Zionaires — Gospel Music from Maryland and Delaware. July 24, 2008.
Merita Halili and the Raif Hyseni Orchestra — Albanian Music from New York, celebrating 40 years of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance. June 19, 2008.
Opalanga Pugh — African American storytelling from Colorado with Askia Touré on voice and drum. May 28, 2008.
The Beehive Band — Traditional Mormon String Band Music from Utah. April 24, 2008.
Major League Tassa — Indo-Caribbean drumming and dance from Queens, New York. January 31, 2008.
Another 2008 AFC Concert
In 2008 the following concert was not part of the Homegrown Series. This was part of AFC's Rediscover Northern Ireland Events 2008 and is available as a webcast.
Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands, from County Down, Northern Ireland, October 9, 2008.
Gandydancer — traditional string
band music from West Virginia.
December 12, 2007.
Hoop Dances by Dallas Chief Eagle
and Jasmine Pickner — Dallas Chief Eagle,
Rosebud Sioux tribal member, and Jasmine Pickner of the Crow Creek
Sioux tribe present traditional hoop dancing. November 15, 2007.
Aubrey Ghent and Friends —
sacred lap steel guitar. October 17, 2007.
Dáithí Sproule, singer and guitarist & Robert
Watt, Highland bagpiper. May 23, 2007.
The Sama Ensemble —
Traditional Iranian music and dance, April 25, 2007.
Flory
Jagota and Friends —
Traditional Sephardic music from the former Yugoslavia and the world. March
21, 2007.
Reverb — gospel/inspirational
harmony group from Washington, DC. Special event for African American
Heritage Month. February 7, 2007.
Other 2007 AFC Concerts
In 2007 the following concerts were not part of the Homegrown Series. These were associated with AFC symposia and are available as webcasts.
Seeger Family Concert evening concert held as part of the sympoisum "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute on March 16, 2007. The concert link will go to a concert log page with a link to the webcast.
Rosie Stewart concert that was part of the Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme 2007. May 9, 2007. The concert title link will go directly to the webcast. Time 1:03:59.
Francis McPeake Family and past pupils from their renowned school in Belfast, Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme 2007. May 16, 2007. (Webcast forthcoming).
The Gannon Family — Irish music and dance
from Missouri. November 15, 2006.
Sonny Burgess and the Pacers — Rockabilly
music from Arkansas.
October 18, 2006.
Doyle Lawson and
Quicksilver — Bluegrass
and Gospel music from Tennessee. September
13, 2006.
Mary Louise Defender
Wilson & Keith Bear —
Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa storytelling and
music from North Dakota. August 16, 2006.
Natasinh Dancers & Musicians — Lao
music and dance from Iowa. July 26, 2006.
The River Boys Polka Band — Dutch Hop
Polka music from Nebraska. June 21, 2006.
James "Super Chikan" Johnson & Richard
Christman —
Blues Guitar from Mississippi. May 23, 2006.
David & Levon
Ayriyan — Armenian
music from Rhode Island. April 12, 2006.
"Mister Jelly Roll, Mister Lomax and
the Invention of Jazz" lecture presented by writer
and jazz scholar John Szwed with examples performed by pianist Dave Burrell. January 18, 2006.
See also, 2006 Botkin Lecture Series: "Waking
up the People," presented by Linda Goss, professional storyteller.
Birmingham
Sunlights — African American Gospel quartet
from Alabama. December 7, 2005.
Dineh
Tah Navajo Dancers —
November 16, 2005.
Negrura Peruana — Afro Peruvian music
and dance from Connecticut. October 12, 2005.
Carter Family Tribute — Old Time
Music from Virginia. NEA National Heritage Fellow Concert. September
20, 2005.
Benton Flippen
and the Smokey Valley Boys — Old Time music from North
Carolina. August
17, 2005.
D. W. Groethe —
Cowboy songs and poetry from Montana. July 20, 2005.
Margaret MacArthur — Ballads and
songs from Vermont. June 21, 2005.
Chu Shan — Chinese Opera Institute from Maryland. May
18, 2005.
(No webcast available)
Liz
Carroll with John Doyle — Irish
American fiddling from Illinois. April
21, 2005. (No webcast available)
2002 Concert Webcast:
Blind
Boys of Alabama I — Excerpts from the June 5, 2002 Homegrown
Concert are presented in two parts, four minutes each.
Blind Boys of Alabama II
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