Events at the Library of Congress
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Event | concerts and performancesCharly Lowry: Lumbee-Tuscarora Singer and Songwriter
Thursday
November 9, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A) Charly Lowry is a dynamic singer-songwriter from Pembroke, North Carolina. She is proud to be an Indigenous woman belonging to the Lumbee and Tuscarora Tribes. She considers her work a platform for raising awareness around issues that plague underdeveloped and underserved Native communities. She was a semi-finalist on American Idol, and has toured solo and with Dark Water Rising. -
Event | concerts and performancesAlejandro Brittes Quartet, Masters of Chamamé
Thursday
September 21, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A) Join the Library as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a series of exciting programs and activities, beginning with a celebration of music from Brazil and Argentina. Alejandro Brittes Quartet innovatively explores the traditional, cross-border chamamé musical genre, a confluence of indigenous Guaraní and Iberian Baroque influences, slow-cooked over centuries. -
Event | concerts and performancesNani Noam Vazana: Ladino Singer, Musician, Composer
Thursday
September 14, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT LJ 119 Noam “Nani” Vazana is one of the only artists in the world that write & compose new songs in the endangered Ladino language, the language of the Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey. In her new album "Ke Haber" (What’s New) she captures the spirit of the ancient, matriarchal language and culture and propels it into the... -
Event | concerts and performancesSinging in Solidarity: Women's Voices Celebrate Labor Day
Wednesday
September 6, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only In celebration of Labor Day, we honor the contributions of women in work through song. This video offers highlights from our Homegrown Concert Series, Archive Challenge videos, and other documented performances. You'll see Thea Hopkins, Ialoni, Martha Gonzalez, Piper Hayes, Windborne, and Rachel Sumner and Traveling Light. All feature the voices of women, with the support of their male colleagues. -
Event | concerts and performancesDeitsch - Traditional Folk Music, Made in Germany
Wednesday
August 23, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Deitsch plays traditional dance music from Germany, some of it 250 years old. For years, German folk music was neglected and nearly forgotten, or derided as old-fashioned and conservative. But now, arranged and interpreted in the style of modern folk music from Germany's European neighbors on voice, guitars, fiddles, bagpipes, and flutes, it emerges timeless and contemporary at the same time.This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHudaki Village Band, Music from the Heart of Ukraine
Wednesday
August 2, 2023
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm EDT Online Only The nine master musicians from the Ukrainian Carpathians, that are HUDAKI Village Band, play music from the Maramures region, a mountainous area of South-west Ukraine on the border with Romania and Hungary. Various ethnic musical influences make the traditional music multifaceted and unique. Archaic Slavic vocal tradition, Romanian melodies, Jewish rhythms and Romany temperament blend together in a local, joyous cross culture that has...This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesAli Doğan Gönültaş Quartet, 150 Years of Music From Kiğı, Turkey
Wednesday
July 12, 2023
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm EDT Online Only Ali Doğan is a Kurdish-born musician in Turkey. This concert looks at 150-year musical life of the village of Kiğı, Ali's birthplace. It includes the regional languages of Kurmancî, Kırdaskî, Armenian and Turkish, as well as Zazakî, Ali's mother tongue. The concert has thematic content and styles such as govend (traditional Kurdish dance), lament, job songs, prayer forms, that convey the modal characteristics of...This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesLive! At The Library: African American Roots and Hip-Hop Artist Christylez Bacon
Thursday
June 15, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A) Join us at the Library of Congress for a special performance by Christylez Bacon, a Grammy Nominated Progressive Hip-Hop artist and multi-instrumentalist from Southeast, Washington, DC. As a performer, Christylez multi-tasks between various instruments such as the West African djembe drum, acoustic guitar, and the human beat-box (oral percussion), all while continuing the oral tradition of storytelling through his lyrics. -
Event | concerts and performancesFrom China To Appalachia: Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian
Wednesday
May 3, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT LJ 119 Grammy Award winning American Roots artists Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer join with Chinese classical hammered dulcimer player Chao Tian in a show that combines music from China to Appalachia and beyond. Instrumentation includes yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), gourd banjo, five-string banjo, ukulele, guitars, dumbek, cello-banjo and mandolin. The group’s repertoire includes traditional Chinese and Appalachian music as well as contemporary and traditional music... -
Event | concerts and performancesSpælimenninir: Folk Music from Scandinavia
Wednesday
April 12, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Whittall Pavilion (LJ-G45E) Spælimenninir’s music is as familiar as an old time barn dance and as exotic as the landscape of the Faroe Islands, the band's home in the North Atlantic. It’s music of the Nordic countries drawing on traditions centuries old and compositions new as today. The sound reflects each member’s heritage and illustrates the links between the music traditions of Scandinavia and the United States. -
Event | concerts and performancesLive! At the Library: African American Folk Music with Jake Blount
Thursday
February 23, 2023
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST Members Room (LJ-162) A gifted musician and scholar of Black American music, Jake Blount performs on voice, banjo, and fiddle. Drawing repertoire from the collections of the Library’s American Folklife Center (AFC), he highlights Black and Indigenous histories of American folk tunes. AFC worked with other Library programs, and with the Folklore Society of Greater Washington, to schedule this concert for African American History Month. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Vigüela
Wednesday
September 14, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us for a Homegrown at Home concert featuring Vigüela. Vigüela is a traditional folk quintet with a commitment to the rural musical traditions of central Spain.This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: WÖR
Wednesday
August 17, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us for the Homegrown at Home concert featuring the band WÖR. With finely textured arrangements, WÖR injects new energy into 18th-century melodies from the Flanders region of Belgium.This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Janusz Prusinowski Kompania
Wednesday
August 3, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us for a Homegrown at Home concert featuring Janusz Prusinowski Kompania for progressive village music from Poland. Janusz Prusinowski Kompania play rural music of Polish villages on fiddles, flutes, accordions, and other traditional instruments. They ground their music in dance rhythms, adding a modern improvisational flair to old melodies.This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: The Chosen Few
Wednesday
July 20, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us for a Homegrown from Home concert featuring The Chosen Few. The Chosen Few stands firmly in the great tradition of unaccompanied religious singing in the Tidewater region of Virginia.This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Rodopi Ensemble
Wednesday
July 6, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us for a Homegrown at Home concert featuring the Rodopi Ensemble. The Rodopi Ensemble has been presenting the sounds, rhythms and melodies of Thrace for almost three decades. The group started its musical journey in the 1990s, and took the name Rodopi Ensemble to indicate its border-crossing musical style.This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Chao Tian and Tom Teasley
Wednesday
June 22, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us for a Homegrown at Home concert featuring Chao Tian and Tom Teasley. Tom and Chao formed the musical duo Dong Xi (“East and West”) in 2018. They use improvisation to create an effective musical dialogue between East and West, and are dedicated to bridging the gap between China and the United States with music.This event will be livestreamed on loc.gov. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Pamyua
Wednesday
June 1, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us for a Homegrown at Home concert featuring Pamyua for Yup’ik drumsongs from Alaska. Pamyua’s goal is to represent the enduring heritage of Inuit people. Their performances encourage audiences to appreciate indigenous traditions while relating ancient traditional wisdom to modern culture. Pamyua believes that unity is possible though music and dance, and the members interpret Inuit traditions masterfully with joy and sincerity.This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Julian Kytasty
Wednesday
May 18, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us for a Homegrown at Home concert featuring Julian Kytasty. He is a third generation player of the bandura, a Ukrainian stringed instrument with similarities to the lute and the zither. Kytasty first learned the instrument from his father and grandfather, and from his great uncle Hryhory Kytasty, a renowned composer and conductor. In 1980 he moved to New York to be the...This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Kongero
Wednesday
April 20, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Swedish vocal group Kongero sing polyphonic a cappella folk music (which they have dubbed Folk’appella). The four women — Lotta Andersson, Emma Björling, Sofia Hultqvist Kott, and Anna Wikénius — have performed all over Europe, Asia, and the Americas, singing in concerts and leading workshops in traditional Swedish vocal music and vocal harmonies.This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Mamselle Ruiz
Wednesday
September 29, 2021
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm EDT Online Only In today's Homegrown concert, Mamselle Ruiz: a Mexican-born singer and guitarist living in French-speaking Montreal, will concentrate on the traditional side of her repertoire, bringing traditional songs and Son Huasteco standards from several regions of Mexico.This event will be livestreamed on Facebook External, and YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Cambalache
Wednesday
September 29, 2021
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only The American Folklife Center presents Cambalache, a group that plays and promotes traditional son jarocho through performance, music workshops, and educational demonstrations.This event will be livestreamed on Facebook External, and YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Windborne
Wednesday
September 8, 2021
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm EDT Online Only Windborne is Lynn Mahoney Rowan, Will Thomas Rowan, Lauren Breunig, and Jeremy Carter-Gordon. The four singers grew up immersed in the traditional song and dance communities of New England and discovered a love of world folk music in their teens. All four have traveled extensively in the U.S. and throughout the world with Village Harmony, Northern Harmony and the Renewal Chorus, leading workshops and...This event will be livestreamed on Facebook External, and YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Bennett Konesni
Wednesday
August 25, 2021
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Online Only Bennett Konesni is a singer, farmer, musician and administrator, based where he grew up in midcoast Maine. He has been singing work songs since he was a teenager on schooners in Penobscot Bay. His concert will include work songs from Maine, including some from the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center’s Maine collections.This event will be livestreamed on Facebook External, and YouTube External. -
Event | concerts and performancesHomegrown: Shaker Spirituals in Maine
Wednesday
August 25, 2021
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm EDT Online Only The American Folklife Center presents Brother Arnold Hadd, Kevin Siegfried, and Radiance. This concert will focus on the transmission, history, and meaning of Shaker songs, and Brother Arnold’s work with American composer Kevin Siegfried.This event will be livestreamed on Facebook External, and YouTube External.