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American Folklife Center Announces 2009 Season of Concerts at the Library of Congress

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Friday, 22 May 2009 02:04

From the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip, 1939

Washington, DC - The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress kicks off its 2009 season with a concert featuring New Hampshire fiddle music in May and a lecture on the 1963 documentary "The High Lonesome Sound." The 2009 Homegrown concert series includes eight concerts, one per month from May through December. The series presents the best of traditional music and dance “homegrown” in the United States, as selected by state folklorists from around the nation. The Homegrown series and the Botkin series are free and open to the general public

The ongoing Benjamin A. Botkin Folklife Lecture Series features a lecture each month and honors Botkin’s intellectual contributions to the field of folklore. Speakers from academia and the public sector will present findings from their ongoing research and fieldwork.

HOMEGROWN 2009: THE MUSIC OF AMERICA
All Homegrown concerts are at noon in the Coolidge Auditorium on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. The Homegrown series is co-sponsored by the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/rr/perform/concert/0809-folklife.html

The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed at the Library of Congress to “preserve and present American Folklife” through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, public programs and training. The center includes an archive of folk culture, which was established in the Library in 1928 and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world. Visit the AFC on the web at www.loc.gov/folklife/ .

The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, is the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled collections and integrated resources to Congress and the American people. Many of the Library’s rich resources and treasures may also be accessed through the Library’s website, www.loc.gov ,

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