The annual festival returns to the National Mall to celebrate Indigenous traditions that span continents and generations Eli Wizevich Tibetan Buddhist monks, Yiddish musicians and many more ...

Elena Terry prepared to “celebrate the beauty of corn” through ancestral-inspired dishes like corn crepes on the first day of ...

this year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival. “Seeing them together to talk about how sport and engaging the body speaks to identity, that can happen here in a way that it might not happen ...

most notably the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, formerly known as the Festival of American Folklife. The subject material of the various collections is global in perspective, and covers such topics as ...

The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

Meredith Herndon Chef Elena Terry showing her completed succotash on stage at the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. “How ...