From: Smithsonian Folkways [smithsonianfolkways_at_si_dot_edu]

Sent: 09 April 2015 17:06

Subject: New Music from Smithsonian Folkways - April 2015

 

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Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World

 

The Chornobyl (the Ukrainian spelling) nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986, forced thousands of people, including those in the musically rich Kyivan Polissia region, to leave their homes and villages. Separated from their homeland, communities were broken apart and centuries-old musical traditions were largely lost. Ensemble Hilka's Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World from Smithsonian Folkways re-creates these all-but-vanished songs.

 

Subscriber Discount: Enter code SFCHORNOBYL and save 20% off retail price on this Custom CD or album download through April 30.

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Sneak Preview: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Fannie Lou Hamer (out 6/30/15)

The 20th child of a Mississippi sharecropper family and a commanding voice of the Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stood tall against the brutality, indignities, and intimidation of implacable racism. She harnessed her mother's gifts of song and plain-spoken wisdom to steel her fellow seekers of social justice, the cause to which she gave her life. Songs My Mother Taught Me, a re-release of limited-edition 1963 field recordings, breathes new life into Fannie Lou Hamer's inspiring legacy and her uncompromising call for a righteous world.

Listen to a sneak preview of Songs My Mother Taught Me.

 

Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky Named to National Recording Registry

The Library of Congress recently announced the latest 25 inductees into the National Recording Registry, including the 1997 Smithsonian Folkways recording Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky by the Indian Bottom Association from southeastern Kentucky.

This is the seventh recording in the Smithsonian Folkways collection named to the registry, and the first that was originally released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (the other six were released by Folkways Records before it became part of the Smithsonian).

 

Headline: UNESCO Reissues Continue: Japan, Madagascar, Bahrain, Afghanistan, and More?

The weekly reissue of two albums from the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music continues! Read the latest guest blog posts, and check back weekly to explore musical traditions from around the world.

 

Subscriber Discount: Save 20% off retail price on UNESCO CDs or album downloads through April 30 with code UNESCOAPRIL.

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Smithsonian Folkways Trivia!

Each month we'll ask a trivia question; email your answer, name, and address with the subject "April Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways_at_si_dot_edu by Tuesday, April 14, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!

April Question: What does "hilka" (of Ensemble Hilka) mean in Ukrainian?

Congratulations to last month's winner, Justin Gardner from Louisville, KY, who correctly answered "North Carolina" to the question: "The song ?Naomi "Omie" Wise' is about a tragic murder that took place in what southern state?"

 

News and Press

?  Smithsonian Folkways Wins Wammie Award for Best Washington Area Record Company.

?  Paste Magazine gives "Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection" 9/10 stars, citing a "life full of inspiration, both what he sung and what he instilled in a generation of his peers and those to come."

?  Lead Belly at 125: A Tribute to an American Songster comes to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, April 25, 2015, with headliners Robert Plant & Alison Krauss.

?  Lead Belly Fest, a one-night tribute concert featuring Van Morrison, Eric Burdon, and more takes place at London's Royal Albert Hall on June 15, 2015.

?  The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage hosts a free D.C. Lead Belly Showcase on April 12, 2015.

?  Smithsonian Folkways remembers Frank Glazer (1915-2015).

 

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