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• Lincoln Park Music Festival Draws Over 40,000 People to Newark

  - 2008-07-30

  NEWARK, N.J. -- Over 40,000 people attended the third annual Lincoln Park Music Festival last weekend. The peaceful Festival continues to be a community highlight each summer. Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District LPCCD presented over forty performances; jazz legend James Moody, award winning gospel artists, The Clark Sisters, Broadway star...

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• Festival features American folk life

  - 2006-07-01

  WASHINGTON AP -- In spite of days of pouring rain, the National Mall was dry and ready Friday for the opening day of the annual Folklife Festival sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. For the festival's 40th year, the Smithsonian decided to focus on the Canadian province of Alberta,...

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• Opening Ceremonies for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

  - 2006-06-28

  News Advisory: WHAT: Opening Ceremonies, Smithsonian Folklife Festival WHEN: Friday, June 30 10:30 a.m. to noon (music begins at 10:30 a.m.; remarks at 11 a.m.) WHERE: Northern Lights Stage, Alberta program On the National Mall, in front of the Smithsonian Castle, Washington D.C. SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE: Lawrence M. Small, Secretary,...

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• Alberta goes to Washington.(All My Relations)

  - 2006-06-01

  Alberta at the Smithsonian will mark the first time in history a Canadian province will be featured at the 40th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. The event will take place from June 30 to July 11 with more than 150 of Alberta's...

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• Smithsonian highlights Alaska native art and film: Alaska native culture and traditions at Washington, D.C., museum

  - 2005-11-01

  Alaska Native culture and traditions are focal points of a festival at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History this month in Washington, D.C., with art, performances, storytelling, crafts and film screenings by influential filmmakers. The Alaska Native Art & Culture Festival begins Nov. 4 at the museum at...

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• Native arts symposium.(Around Indian Country)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-04-16

  NATIVE ARTS SYMPOSIUM--As this issue of NAR goes to press, Georgetown University is hosting Native Lands, a three-day symposium and festival to celebrate the American Indian story and performance. The conference, April 15-17, brings together Indian playwrights, authors, musicians and historians, including W. Richard West, director...

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• Cultural connections

  - 2003-07-01

  The Smithsonian's 2002 Silk Road folklife festival provided a cultural bridge between East and WestImagine walking among Uzbek weavers, Kazakh nomads, and Chinese storytellers; watching martial artists and hearing the unique sounds of singers and musicians from Mongolia and Beijing; discovering an ancient Xi'an Bell Tower; and wandering through a...

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• Living The American Dram; Charlene Sweeney tunes in to a Scottish

  - 2003-06-22

  YOU won't have seen it advertised anywhere but one of Scotland's biggest and most important festivals begins on Wednesday. In a huge celebration of traditional culture, more than 100 folk musicians, artists and craftspeople, from Yell in the Shetlands, to Dumfries in the southwest, will spend a fortnight playing and...

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• FROM THE HOB; Celtic Wonderland at Smithsonian

  - 2003-06-18

  Keating, Paul Irish Voice 06-18-2003 NOW that it looks like summer will actually make an appearance in this part of the world, thoughts of taking a break from the daily grind are probably in order. If your usual Celtic wanderlust has been...

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• Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.

  - 2002-04-01

  Assembling masters of classical musics of all Eurasia, commissioning works, and mounting performances around the world, the Silk Road Project is creating a new trans-highway of culture. For about two thousand years, the Silk Road--a network of trade routes that connected East Asia to...

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