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.

2008 Concert Series

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.

2007 Concert Series

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.

2006 Concert Series

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.

2005 Concert Series

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)

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