A number of instruments played by famous folk artists, along with those of less-known and unknown artists, are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. National Museum of ...

Posted in Opinion An Incredible Archive of American Folk Music by AX Mina September 18, 2013 September 21, 2013 AX Mina September 18, 2013 September 21, 2013 ...

Rhiannon Giddens is a gifted Grammy-winner, African American folk music interpreter and revivalist. Featured in the MUSIC episode of Craft in America, Giddens plays a Jim Hartel Levi Brown style ...

Rhiannon Giddens Is Reclaiming the Black Heritage of American Folk Music. 4 minute ... I n early 2018, folk-music torchbearer Rhiannon Giddens decamped ... played on a replica of an 1858 instrument.

The score needed to have edge and grit and gloom, so Dessner crafted a “dark twisted American folk music” sound. ... To pull that off, he turned to certain instruments.

Mike Seeger, who helped revive traditional American folk music, has died at age 75.Seeger's wife, Alexia Smith, said Monday that Seeger died of cancer Friday night at their home in Lexington ...

And that led her to establish the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival. (It started last year as a virtual event — because of COVID. This year is the first time it'll be live, onstage).

Information or research assistance regarding American folk instruments is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested ...