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New
Release: ¡Que Viva el Canto! Songs of
Chile
Over one hundred years and three
regions of Chilean folk song style are summed up in this
contemporary musical tour-de-force led by singer, guitarist,
and composer Rafael Manríquez and friends. Available now as
part of the Latino Music Initiative. For more
information on Latino music and culture, visit the Música
del Pueblo virtual exhibition. |
Attention
Educators: Free Full-Length Stream & Lesson
Plan
Nobel Voices for Disarmament:
1901–2001 is a stirring collection of new and archival
spoken-word recordings by the most prominent advocates for
peace. For a limited time, stream the entire album free and
download a lesson plan designed for middle-school and
high-school classrooms. |
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Sound
Sessions Radio: Sonam Dorji of Bhutan
Bhutan, a
small nation nestled between India and China, was featured at
the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the
National Mall in Washington, DC. Bhutanese musician Sonam
Dorji joins Smithsonian Folkways Associate Director Atesh
Sonneborn and host Sam Litzinger on the Festival grounds in a
discussion about the music, people, and culture of Bhutan.
Note: you can now subscribe to Sound Sessions as a
Podcast. |
Smithsonian
Folkways Trivia!
Each month we’ll ask a trivia
question; email your answer with the subject "October
Trivia" to smithsonianfolkways_at_si_dot_edu by Monday,
October 28th, 2008, and a randomly selected entrant with the
correct answer will win a free CD of his or her
choice!
October Question: This month's question
comes from Richard Carlin, author of Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian
Folkways and producer of several Smithsonian Folkways
recordings: Which jazz pianist once quipped, "If you only
burped, [Folkways] recorded it." (Hint: One of her recordings
was among the nine Smithsonian Folkways albums included in the
book 1,000
Recordings to Hear Before You
Die).
Congratulations to last month's
winner, Michael Brailove from Highland Park, NJ, who
correctly answered "Reverend Gary Davis" to this question: What
influential blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter once gave
guitar lessons to Dave Van Ronk, Bob Weir, Jorma Kaukonen, and
David Bromberg? |
New
And Notable
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Curator
Picks
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News
and Notes
- On October 21st, Smithsonian Folkways will release
Tom Glazer Sings Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG and Other
Children's Favorites, a classic live album featuring his
hit "On Top of Spaghetti."
- Join host Aaron Henkin on a weekly tour through the
sound archives of Smithsonian Folkways with Tapestry of the Times, a new radio
show from WYPR public radio in Baltimore, MD. Podcast
available.
- Check out the fall edition of Fretboard Journal for an in-depth
interview with banjoist Tony Trischka, who released Territory earlier this year on
Smithsonian Folkways.
- Subscribe to our News & Notes RSS feed to get updates
as they happen.
- On MySpace? Visit the Smithsonian Folkways MySpace profile. The
first ten comments on every blog become a "top friend"!
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