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Subject: Smithsonian Global Sound June '09: Folkways Magazine Summer Issue

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Smithsonian Folkways

 

June 2009 Newsletter


Dear Supporter,

 

Smithsonian Folkways Celebrates the 2009 Smithsonian Folklife Festival with Four New Releases

The 43rd Smithsonian Folklife Festival presents three exciting programs - Giving Voice, Las Américas, and Wales - from June 24th through June 28th and July 1 through July 5th on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The annual Marketplace once again offers more Smithsonian Folkways CDs than anywhere else. Read on for information on four new releases, special concerts, Festival webcasts, the summer edition of Folkways Magazine, and a special discount for subscribers.

June, 2009 New Releases

 

Folkways Magazine, Summer 2009

Folkways Magazine - Summer 2009
Explore the second edition of Folkways Magazine, which examines the expanding universe of Música Latina, profiles new Smithsonian Folkways artist Los Texmaniacs, re-discovers an album of Welsh music from 1954, and much more.

 

Save 15% during Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Can't make it to the Festival Marketplace? Just enter code SFWFESTIVAL09 and save 15% off retail price on your next order through Sunday, July 5th. Discount applies to both CDs and digital downloads.

 

2009 Folklife Festival Programs

Giving Voice: The Power of Words in African American Culture

Las Américas: Un Mundo Musical - Music in Latino Culture

Wales Smithsonian Cymru

 

Watch Daily Smithsonian Folklife Festival Webcasts
Can't make it to the Folklife Festival this year? You don't have to miss the amazing performances. Watch selected daily performances at www.festival.si.edu/2009/webcast.aspx.

2009 Festival Webcast

 

Smithsonian Folkways Trivia!
Each month we'll ask a trivia question; email your answer, name, and address with the subject "June Trivia" to smithsonianfolkways_at_si_dot_edu by July 5th and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!

June Question: Which award-winning poet, currently poet-in-residence at Temple University, recorded an album of poetry for Folkways in 1971. Hint: She is a participant in the Giving Voice program at the Folklife Festival.

Congratulations to last month's winner, Michelle from Maine, who correctly answered "Unlike other stringed instruments, the strings on a harp run perpendicular to the soundboard or sound hole." May's question was: What characteristic defines the harp, as heard on five albums (from four countries) in the Tradiciones/Traditions series, as a distinct type of musical instrument?

 

Essential Picks

Heroes and Horses: Corridos from the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
Heroes and Horses: Corridos from the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
Various Artists

Sí, soy llanero: Joropo Music from the Orinoco Plains of Colombia
Sí, soy llanero: Joropo Music from the Orinoco Plains of Colombia
Grupo Cimarrón

Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima
Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima
Viento De Agua

Welsh Folk Songs
Welsh Folk Songs
Meredydd Evans

A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry
A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry
Sonia Sanchez

Come Dance By the Ocean
Come Dance By the Ocean
Ella Jenkins

 

News and Notes

  • Smithsonian Folkways artists Los Texmaniacs (June 26th), Arpex (June 27th), Viento de Agua (June 28th), and other Smithsonian Folklife Festival participants will be performing at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage every day at 6 p.m. for free during the Festival.
  • Radio Bilingüe, a community-based radio network with 125 affiliate stations, will feature broadcast performances and podcasts from the Las Américas program at the 2009 Folklife Festival.

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