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Musician, composer, and educator
Jos?-Luis Orozco has an impeccable pedigree in bilingual music education.
Jos?-Luis began performing music for children over four decades ago,
releasing fifteen children's albums along the way. His sixteenth, and first
through Smithsonian Folkways, ?Come Bien! Eat Right!, is a
delightful and engaging bilingual album that offers a fun-filled approach
to healthy eating.
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Smithsonian Folkways Curator & Director Daniel Sheehy to Receive
NEA National Heritage Award
 Curator and Director Daniel
Sheehy has been named the 2015 Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National Heritage
Fellow, the United States' highest award in the folk and traditional arts.
Sheehy was appointed curator and director of Smithsonian Folkways in 2000
and under his direction, the label has published more than 200 recordings
and earned five GRAMMY awards, one Latin GRAMMY, and many other awards and
honors.
Sheehy has recently announced
his retirement from the Smithsonian once a successor has been identified.
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Smithsonian Folkways Seeks New Curator & Director
 With the upcoming retirement of
Daniel Sheehy, Smithsonian Folkways seeks a dynamic new curator and
director to lead the award-winning nonprofit record label. Applications are
open until October 2, 2015, and the full posting is available here.
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Sneak Preview: The Brothers Nazaroff: The Happy Prince (out
10/23/15)
 On October 23, Smithsonian
Folkways will release The Brothers Nazaroff: The Happy Prince,
a boisterous, high-energy tribute to cult Yiddish troubadour Nathan
"Prince" Nazaroff, who recorded the mysterious Folkways 10-inch record Jewish Freilach Songs in
1954. International klezmer supergroup The Brothers Nazaroff, composed of
Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko, Michael Alpert, Jake Shulman-Ment, Bob Cohen,
and Hampus Melin, breathe new life into the discordant, obscure, jubilant
legacy of their Happy Prince.
Listen to a sneak preview of The Happy Prince
here.
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