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    The Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble and Becky Weis concert and interview collection,
    Nordic music from the upper Midwest | Homegrown 2003, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2003-07-16 Catalog Record Only     Collection consists of photographs and videorecording of the concert at the Library of Congress; program flyer and publicity materials, including biographical information on performers. The Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble performs repertoire based in "old-time" dance or "gammledans" music, primarily waltzes, schottisches, and polkas. Elizabeth "Becky" Weis plays and teaches the older "bygdedans" music of the Norwegian hardanger fiddle and Swedish nyckleharpa (key fiddle). Philip Nusbaum...
    • Contributor: Nusbaum, Philip - Brenden, Mel - Weis, Becky - Larson, Leroy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Bjorngjeld, Art - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2003
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    Wylie and the Wild West concert and interview collection,
    Wylie and the Wild West, fine western music | Fine western music | Homegrown 2003, the music of America | Wylie & the Wild West concert | American Folklife Center concert, 2003-10-08 Catalog Record Only     Collection consists of sound and videorecordings of the concert at the Library of Congress, videorecordings of the interview, digital photographs of two concerts, as well as publicity photographs and other publicity materials about the group. Wylie Gustafson and his band perform country and western classics, folk-rock tunes, and original songs and dance music composed by Gustafson, who is also a noted Western-style yodeler.
    • Contributor: Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Lund, Jens - Wylie & the Wild West (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2003
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    Charivari concert and interview collection,
    Charivari | Cajun dance music from southwest Louisiana | Homegrown 2003, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2003-06-18 Catalog Record Only     Collection consists of photographs, sound and video recordings of the concert of Cajun music performed by Charivari at the Library of Congress on June 18, 2003; sound and video recordings of the interview; 2 copies of one black-and-white publicity photo, program flyer, and publicity materials.
    • Contributor: Ancelet, Barry Jean - Charivari (Musical Group) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2003
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    Joe Derrane and friends concert and interview collection,
    Joe Derrane and friends | Homegrown 2003, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2003-04-23 Catalog Record Only     Collection consists of photographs, sound, and video recordings of the concert featuring Joe Derrane on accordion, with John McGann and Bridget Fitzgerald at the Library of Congress as part of the Homegrown 2003 concert series, with concert program flyer and publicity materials. Dancers from the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, demonstrated Irish dancing. An interview with Joe Derrane...
    • Contributor: Holtzberg, Maggie - Massachusetts Cultural Council - Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - McGann, John - American Folklife Center - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - Derrane, Joe
    • Date: 2003
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    Chinese rod puppetry performance and interview collection,
    Chinese rod puppetry | Dragon Arts Studio | Homegrown 2002, the music of America | Chinese puppet theater | Homegrown 2002 concert series | American Folklife Center concert, 2002-05-15 Catalog Record Only     The collection consists of correspondence, a list of interview questions and notes, biographical materials for the artists, sound and video recordings of the Dragon Art Studio performance on Neptune Plaza, and videorecording of an interview with the performers conducted by Oregon Folklore Program director, Nancy Nusz on May 15, 2002. A second interview with Yuqin Wang and Zhengli Xu conducted by American Folklife Center...
    • Contributor: Xu, Zhengli - Yeh, Nora - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Dragon Art Studio - Wang, Yuqin - Nusz, Nancy - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2002
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    Old New England concert and interview collection,
    Title from program flyer: Old New England | Title from program flyer: Contradancing from New Hampshire | Title from program flyer: Homegrown 2002, the music of America | Homegrown 2002 concert series | American Folklife Center concert, 2002-10-08 Catalog Record Only     Collection consists of photographs, sound recording, and videorecording of the outdoor concert, which included contra dancing; plus program flyers and publicity materials for this event and a sound recording of an interview with Bob McQuillen conducted by folklorist Burt Feintuch.
    • Contributor: Feintuch, Burt - Old New England (Musical Group) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Desrosiers, Mary - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - American Folklife Center - Orzechowski, Jane - McQuillen, Bob
    • Date: 2002
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    Karl and the Country Dutchmen concert and interview collection,
    Karl and the Country Dutchmen | Homegrown 2002, the music of America | Homegrown 2002 concert series | American Folklife Center concert, 2002-06-19 Catalog Record Only     The collection consists of sound and video recordings of the concert featuring German-American polkas and waltzes played in the "Dutchman" style widely known in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, featuring the Chemnitzer concertina and brass and reed instruments. Also included are black-and-white photographs of the concert; a sound recording of the interview with Karl Hartwich; program flyer, concert log, and publicity materials.
    • Contributor: Hartwich, Karl - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Karl and the Country Dutchmen - American Folklife Center - March, Richard - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2002
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    Tom Paxton concert and interview collection,
    Tom Paxton | Homegrown 2002, the music of America | Summon the heroes | Homegrown 2002 concert series | American Folklife Center concert, 2002-10-10 Catalog Record Only     The collection consists of sound and video recordings of singer-songwriter Tom Paxton performing his compositions with guitarist Al Petteway in the Library of Congress concert series, "Summon the Heroes," commemorating the events of September 11, 2001. Also included are photographs of the concert; publicity photographs; a sound recording of an interview with Tom Paxton conducted by Joe Hickerson; manuscript set list; and printed publicity...
    • Contributor: Petteway, AL - Library of Congress. Music Division - Paxton, Tom - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - American Folklife Center - Hickerson, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles)
    • Date: 2002
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    Mingo Saldivar concert and interview collection,
    Mingo Saldivar y sus cuatro espadas Tejano conjunto music | Homegrown 2002, the music of America | Homegrown 2002 concert series | American Folklife Center concert, 2002-09-19 Catalog Record Only     Collection consists of sound and video recordings of accordionist Mingo Saldivar and his band in performance featuring Tejano conjunto music; a sound recording of Saldivar being interviewed by Rose Reyes; black-and-white and color photographs of the concert; and publicity materials.
    • Contributor: Saldivar, Mingo - Reyes, Rose - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2002
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    Campbell Brothers and Katie Jackson concert and interview collection,
    Campbell Brothers and Katie Jackson, sacred steel gospel music | Sacred steel gospel music | Homegrown 2002, the music of America | Homegrown 2002 concert series | American Folklife Center concert, 2002-08-28 Catalog Record Only     Collection consists of sound and video recordings of the Campbell Brothers concert at the Library of Congress on August 28, 2002; sound recordings of an interview with the performers conducted by Robert Stone, photographs of the concert, program flyer, and publicity and administrative materials. This tradition of sacred steel gospel music developed within pentecostal House of God churches in the United States.
    • Contributor: Jackson, Katie - Campbell Brothers - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Stone, Bob - Brown, Denise - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2002
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    Nadeem Dlaikan and the Dearborn Traditional Ensemble concert and interview collection,
    Arabic music from Michigan | Homegrown 2004, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2004-10-20 Catalog Record Only     Collection consists of sound and video recordings of concert at the Library of Congress, and a sound recording of an interview with Nadeem Dlaikan regarding his family and education in Lebanon, his immigration to the United States in 1969, and details about making reed flutes and performing in Michigan. Also included are digital photographs of the concert in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library...
    • Contributor: Dlaikan, Nadeem - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Dearborn Traditional Ensemble - Middle East Institute (Washington, D.C.) - Lockwood, Yvonne R. - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2004
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    Jerry Grcevich and his orchestra concert and interview collection,
    Tamburitza music from Pennsylvania | Homegrown 2004, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2004-12-08 Catalog Record Only     Collection includes sound and video recordings of a concert of Croatian tamburitza music; manuscripts include program flyer and other printed information about the performers and tamburitza ensembles. Also included is a sound recording of an interview with Jerry Grcevich about his family history and musical training. Grcevich demonstrates the various tambura instruments, their tuning, and their roles in a tamburitza orchestra; discusses his study,...
    • Contributor: Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Throckmorton-Meunier, Julie - Dyen, Doris J. - Grcevich, Jerry - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2004
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    Liz Carroll with John Doyle concert and interview collection,
    Irish American fiddling from Illinois | Homegrown 2005, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2005-04-21 Catalog Record Only     Collection of video and audio recordings and program of concert and interview featuring Chicago-born Irish American fiddler Liz Carroll and John Doyle. Collection also includes two publicity photos of Liz Carroll and John Doyle; black-and-white photo credit: Anne Hamersky.
    • Contributor: Carroll, Liz - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Doyle, John - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2005
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    Margaret MacArthur concert and interview collection,
    Traditional music from Vermont | Homegrown 2005, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2005-06-21 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of video and audio recordings and program of concert featuring Margaret MacArthur, ballad singer and song collector from Marlboro, Vermont. Margaret MacArthur sings ballads, songs, recites poems and rhymes. The collection includes an oral history interview with MacArthur recorded in Marlboro in 2002 by Jane C. Beck, with complete transcript (78 p.) of the interview; also included is an article written by Jane...
    • Contributor: Beck, Jane C. - Macarthur, Margaret - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2002
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    David Ayriyan and Levon Ayriyan concert and interview collection,
    David Ayriyan and Levon Ayriyan concert | American Folklife Center concert, 2006-04-12 | Traditional Armenian music from Rhode Island | Homegrown 2006, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of video recordings of a concert of Armenian and other regional classical, popular, and folk music performed by David Ayriyan, a master player on the kemanche, a bowed stringed instrument; and by his son, Levon Ayriyan, dumbek, performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on April 12, 2006, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. David...
    • Contributor: Ayriyan, David - Lambrecht, Winifred - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Ayriyan, Levon
    • Date: 2005
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    James "Super Chikan" Johnson concert and interview collection,
    James "Super Chikan" Johnson, traditional blues guitar from Mississippi | James "Super Chikan" Johnson interview conducted by Larry Morrisey | American Folklife Center concert, 2006-05-23 | Traditional blues guitar from Mississippi | Homegrown 2006, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     James Johnson of Clarksdale, Mississippi, performed Delta blues in concert with special guest Richard Crisman "Daddy Rich," performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on May 23, 2006, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Johnson is also an instrument maker and performed on several of the hand painted guitars he calls "Chikantars." The collection includes a...
    • Contributor: Morrisey, Larry - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Super Chikan - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Daddy Rich
    • Date: 2006
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    River Boys Polka Band concert and interview collection,
    River Boys Polka Band | Dutch hop polka music of the Germans from Russia | Homegrown 2006, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2006-06-21 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of videorecordings of a concert of Dutch Hop polka music performed by the River Boys Polka Band, performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on June 21, 2006, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The term "Dutch Hop" is used generically to describe traditional dance music of the Volga Deutsch (Germans from Russia who emigrated...
    • Contributor: Schmer, Robert - American Folklife Center - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - River Boys Polka Band - Meister, Gwen K. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2006
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    Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver concert and interview collection,
    Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver | American Folklife Center concert, 2006-09-13 | Bluegrass and gospel music from Bristol, Tennessee | Homegrown 2006, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of video and sound recordings of a concert featuring bluegrass and gospel band Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver in conjunction with their 2006 NEA National Heritage Fellowship award, performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on September 13, 2006, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Lawson has taken the white and black gospel quartet singing traditions...
    • Contributor: Lawson, Doyle - Wamu-Fm (Radio Station : Washington, D.C.) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Daley, Katy - Quicksilver (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2006
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    Barbara Lynn and friends concert and interview collection,
    Barbara Lynn, the "Empress of Gulf Coast Soul" and friends play rhythm & blues from Texas | Barbara Lynn & friends | Homegrown 2009, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2009-11-18 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs of Barbara Lynn, the "empress of Gulf Coast soul," singer, guitarist, and songwriter from Beaumont, Texas, in concert, performing her rhythm and blues hits from the 60s to the present on November 18, 2009 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Photographs of...
    • Contributor: Rucker, Sarah - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Lynn, Barbara - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    The Berntsons concert and interview collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2009-12-03 | Berntsons: Norwegian-American dance music from Virginia and Wisconsin | Norwegian-American dance music from Virginia and Wisconsin | Homegrown 2009, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Dance music and traditional song repertoire of The Berntsons, a Norwegian American family and friends from Wisconsin, now located in Virginia, performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. An interview with Eleanore Berntson Lundeberg, who plays the pump organ, was conducted by Virginia state folklorist Jon Lohman at the Library...
    • Contributor: Berntsons (Musical Group) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Lundeberg, Eleanore Berntson - Lohman, Jon - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2009
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    Opalanga Pugh concert and interview collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2008-05-28 | Opalanga Pugh in concert | Opalanga Pugh: traditional African American storytelling from Colorado | Traditional African American storytelling from Colorado | Homegrown 2008, the music of America Catalog Record Only     Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert featuring storytelling and songs by Opalanga D. Pugh, with drummer Askia Touré on May 28, 2008 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The collection also includes two oral history interviews with Opalanga D. Pugh, conducted by folklorist Georgia Wier,...
    • Contributor: Pugh, Opalanga D. - American Folklife Center - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Wier, Georgia - Touré, Askia M. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2008
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    Gary Haleamau concert and interview collection,
    Gary Haleamau in concert | Gary Haleamau : traditional Hawaiian music from Las Vegas | Gary Haleamau and his band : | Homegrown 2008, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2008-08-20 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by Gary Haleamau and his band on August 20, 2008 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The performance includes Hawaiian visual interpretation of some of the songs using signs and hula dance. Gary Haleamau, who is Portuguese American, discusses...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Snetselaar, Rebecca - Haleamau, Gary - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2008
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    Libaya Baba concert and interview collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2013-07-02 | Libaya Baba : Garifuna music and dance from California and New York | Homegrown 2013, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, audio recordings, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on July 2, 2013 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Libaya Baba means "Grandfather's Grandchildren." The group consists of three brothers Jeffrey, Kelsie, and Dayton Bernardez, and their cousin, Greg Palacio. Their first influence came from their grandfather, Cyril Antonio, and...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Libaya Baba (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2013
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    Carmen Agra Deedy and Karla Campillo-Soto : Lado a lado (side by side) -- contemporary Latin American storytelling,
    Latina storyteller oral history | American Folklife Center concert, 2016-04-07 | Lado a lado (side by side): contemporary Latin American storytelling | Homegrown 2016, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of an oral history conducted by Stephen D. Winick following a performance in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on April 7, 2016 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Carmen Agra Deedy and Karla Campillo-Soto performed "Lado a Lado (Side by Side): Contemporary Latin American Storytelling." They shared...
    • Contributor: Winick, Stephen D. - Deedy, Carmen Agra - Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Campillo-Soto, Karla - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2016