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.@Folkways announce 'Clifton Chenier: King of Louisiana Blues and Zydeco'. This landmark Arhoolie box set (November 2025) features 67 tracks, including 19 previously unreleased performances - check out the powerful 1971 live recording of "Mr. Charlie." klofmag.com/2025/06/smithson…
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4 Apr 2025
Tucker Zimmerman shares his folk playlist with @Folkways 🎶
Listen and read about his picks here
folkways.si.edu/playlist/peo…
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16 Mar 2025
Our weekly premiere and new music round-up is simply packed with entirely legendary bluegrass in this edition of the column!
Check out releases from Andy Leftwich (@theandyleftwich), Carter & Cleveland, The Seldom Scene, and more: bit.ly/3XUWvi3
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21 Feb 2025
Since the 1990s, the Sons of Membertou have been part of a vibrant resurgence of Mi’kmaq musical traditions. The reissue of their 1995 record comes out today on @Folkways.
Watch their performance of the Mi’kmaw Gathering Song at #2024Folklife Festival: s.si.edu/3ETyzVz
ALT Four men in matching red and black shirts perform on stage, singing and beating circular hand drums.
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Legendary bluegrass band The Seldom Scene unveiled a hauntingly beautiful take on Bob Dylan's "Farewell, Angelina."
Stream the latest preview of the band's upcoming LP, 'Remains To Be Scene'
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6 Feb 2025
Sons of Membertou is a Mi’kmaw group that combines traditional drumming, with contemporary sounds of Cape Breton music and lyrics mostly in the Mi’kmaw language.
📅 Hear them Feb13 at the Museum 🎶
🎟 Reserve your FREE ticket bit.ly/4hBNYrK #Winterlude
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24 Jan 2025
Not for kids only: 9 children’s songs worth a listen. nytimes.com/2025/01/24/arts/…
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14 Jan 2025
Last of the Steam-Powered Trains from The Seldom Scene
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24 Dec 2024
“It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I realized nobody else I know partakes in this combination of delicacies on Christmas.”
For Folklife Magazine, Logan Clark from @Folkways investigates how her family tradition of caviar and escargots began: s.si.edu/3VTgz3j
ALT A man in a beige suit and a young girl in a bright pink sweater serve themselves caviar and escargot around the coffee table.
ALT Working at a kitchen table, a man in a short-sleeved dress shirt creates a design of Kokopelli, a silhoutted figure with a feathered headdress playing flute, out of red and black caviar on a circular plate.
ALT A hand holding a cracker reaches into a plate of red and black caviar, garnished with lemon slices. In front of the caviar is a metal paella pan filled with white rock salt and pale brown snail shells, each filled with a dark green mixture.
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.@folkways picks out an array of festive recordings from their archives in a special Christmas Eve show 🎄
Featuring Spanish children's choirs, Yorkshire carollers, hand-bell ringers, delicate Swiss music box recordings, and a lot more.
Live for the next hour - nts.live/1
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17 Dec 2024
Elijah Wald, whose book @bobdylan praised on Twitter earlier this month, shares a 31-track playlist of songs from the @Folkways archives to prepare for 'A Complete Unknown'
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25 Nov 2024
For the @Tennessean, bluesman Jerron Paxton and I had a fantastic conversation about his new @Folkways album "Things Done Changed" and contemplated how his throwback stylings recontextualize Black history's present and future.
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13 Nov 2024
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of the "First Lady of Children's Music," children’s folk singer and musician Ella Jenkins, recipient of a 2017 #NEAHeritage Fellowship.
Our full statement: bit.ly/3Z1EDmC
ALT photo of Ella Jenkins, an older Black woman with short gray hair. She wears a red poncho and is playing a djembe drum
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Children’s musician Ella Jenkins has died. She was 100. She’s been called the first lady of children’s music, received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award and saw her work immortalized in the Library of Congress.
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12 Nov 2024
Ella Jenkins, the “first lady of children’s music” has died at 100. She shared culture & history through call-and-response songs like "You'll Sing A Song and I'll Sing A Song." Her 70-yr career taught generations to celebrate diversity. Rest In Power. npr.org/2024/11/10/530876080…
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11 Nov 2024
Ella Jenkins, a self-taught musician who defied her industry’s norms by recording and performing solely for children, and in doing so transformed a marginal and moralistic genre into a celebration of a diverse yet common humanity, has died at 100. nytimes.com/2024/11/10/obitu…
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11 Nov 2024
Ella Jenkins, a self-taught musician who became a leading figure in American folk and children’s music of the 20th century, has died. She was 100 years old.
She was known for revolutionizing children’s music with her signature “call and response” style.
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11 Nov 2024
We mourn the passing of Ella Jenkins, one of the most iconic folk musicians of the 20th century, who revolutionized children’s music and inspired generations of listeners around the world. She died peacefully on Nov. 9 at her residence in Chicago, Illinois. She was 100 years old.
ALT A less often seen black-and-white portrait of Ella Jenkins, smiling and holding ukulele, circa 1970. Photo by Bernadelle Richter, courtesy of the Ella Jenkins Archive.
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“There is no one who has done more for young people in American musical history than Ella Jenkins,” children’s musician Dan Zanes has said.
Read the @nytimes’ obituary to learn more: nytimes.com/2024/11/10/obitu…
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