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Smithsonian Folkways Trivia!
Each month we'll ask a
trivia question; email your answer, name, and address with the
subject "May Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways_at_si_dot_edu by May 31.
A randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of
his or her choice!
This Month's Question: What Norwegian stringed instrument is similar to a violin
but has additional, sympathetic strings that resonate when the other four
are played? (Hint - it is featured in one of the UNESCO Collection albums recently
reissued).
Congratulations to last
month's winner, James O. Phillips from Urbana, Illinois, who correctly answered the question: "In the 41-year
history of The Seldom Scene, current and former band members have often
maintained surprising?at least for influential musicians??day jobs.' Can
you name two?" We would have accepted any two of the following answers:
- John
Duffey-luthier
- Ben Eldridge-mathematician
- John
Starling-physician
- Mike Auldridge-graphic
designer
- Tom
Gray-cartographer
- Dudley
Connell-audio archivist
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- Ronnie
Simpkins-audio engineer
- Fred
Travers-firefighter
- Lou Reid-childcare center
owner
(with wife Christy Reid)
- T. Michael
Coleman-videographer and filmmaker
- Phil
Rosenthal-songwriter / children's music label owner
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News and Notes
- Pipa virtuoso Wu Man,
featured on Music of Central Asia Vol.10: Borderlands,
will perform a free evening concert at the 2014
Smithsonian Folklife Festival on Saturday, July 5 at 6 p.m. She will
also participate in a discussion session during the afternoon.
- Archivist
Cecilia Peterson explains what mysterious photos of a geodesic dome and a
zither have to do with one another (and with Cook
Records, part of the Smithsonian Folkways collection).
- "I'm
still here, and now I just want to be me. I'm pretty comfortable in
my own skin now, more than I've been in my life," says Smithsonian
Folkways recording artist Larry Long in his recent interview with
the Star Tribune.
- "We
look under all different rocks for our material. I think the song is
the most important thing. Performance is great, good singing is
great, but a good song will last forever," says Seldom Scene singer
and guitarist Dudley Connell in this Engine 145 interview.
- We
joined up with Smithsonian Magazine to digitize an
"endangered song" as part of the Smithsonian's National Zoo's efforts to save
the highly endangered tiger.
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music. Liner notes are available as free PDF downloads. Thank you for your
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