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CCG Year of Engagement Podcast Episode #4: Community on the Line
Published: September 29, 2025 21:31
AFC Events Specialist Thea Austen and Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas chat with Queen Nur and AJ Rivers about the CCG project, "On the Line: Urban Line Dancing," and their wildly popular public event held at the Library earlier this year. The post…
Ozark Folk Music with Artists in Resonance The Creek Rocks: Homegrown Plus
Published: September 24, 2025 18:31
The exciting old time duo The Creek Rocks, the recipients of the 2024 Artists in Resonance Fellowship from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, bring old songs back to the Library in shiny new arrangements! Accomplished singer and banjo…
Jack in the Wide World Part 2: Jack Tales in Drama and Other Arts
Published: September 22, 2025 14:58
Here at "Folklife Today," we've been following the history of Jack tales, from their emergence in the late Middle Ages to their adoption into modern literature and media. In our last installment, we traced Jack in both fantasy literature and more realistic…
Bluegrass with The Henhouse Prowlers: Homegrown Plus
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/09/bluegrass-with-the-henhouse-prowlers-homegrown-plus/
Published: September 19, 2025 13:37
Welcome to the latest post in the Homegrown Plus series, featuring bluegrass quartet The Henhouse Prowlers. After two decades of touring and performing, the Henhouse Prowlers proudly look to the future, expressing their passion for music and humanity.…
New Resource Guide Highlights the American Folklife Center’s Botkin Lecture Series
Published: September 17, 2025 14:47
The American Folklife Center is excited to announce the launch of its new, easy-to-use Botkin Lecture Resource Guide, which gives users direct access to hundreds of hours of world-class lectures on folklore, folk music and traditional culture. Over the…
The Veterans History Project and the U.S. Navy Memorial invite students in grades 5–12 to submit short films to the 2025 Sea Service Film Festival
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/09/call-for-submissions-the-2025-sea-service-film-festival/
Published: September 15, 2025 14:12
For several years, the U.S. Navy Memorial has hosted students from around the country through its Sea Service internship. As part of the program, interns conduct oral histories of Navy veterans and produce short films based on those interviews. The full…
New Folklife Today Podcast: Exploring 1950s Gullah Geechee Sonic Life with Dr. Eric Crawford
Published: September 12, 2025 13:00
This blog highlights a new episode of the Folklife Today podcast, which explores an important collection of Gullah Geechee sound recordings in the archives of the American Folklife Center. The collection features over four hours of Gullah Geechee people…
Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys and More: Homegrown Plus
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/09/dom-flemons-presents-black-cowboys-and-more-homegrown-plus/
Published: September 10, 2025 18:44
We're continuing the Homegrown Plus series with a classic from a few years ago with our good friend Dom Flemons, who performs and records as The American Songster. Back in 2020, Dom performed in the Homegrown at Home concert series, the pandemic-era…
Crys Matthews, Peggy Seeger, Rhiannon Giddens, and “How I Long For Peace”: Archive Challenge Spotlight
Published: September 5, 2025 13:28
In 2020, singer-songwriter Crys Matthews participated in the American Folklife Center’s Library of Congress/Folk Alliance International Archive Challenge in New Orleans. The song she selected was “How I Long for Peace,” a song written by Peggy Seeger and…
Jack in the Wide World Part 1: Jack Tales in Literature
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/09/jack-in-the-wide-world-part-1-jack-tales-in-literature/
Published: September 2, 2025 14:16
We continue to explore the tradition of Jack tales, this time looking at the way they emerge into literature. In this post, we look at fantasy novels and short stories inspired by Jack, created by such authors as Leo Tolstoy, William Morris, George…