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Spring 2010
Music of Central Asia
  • Rainbow Artists
    Artist Spotlight
    Rainbow Artists

    Biographies and media about the artists on the album Rainbow...

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  • Shangri-La of Yunnan, China
    From the Field
    Shangri-La of Yunnan, China

    Singing performance by the group Shangri-La at the Folklife Festival in 2007.

  • How to play bolero in mariachi style
    Tools for Teaching
    How to play bolero in mariachi style

    Mariachi los Camperos de Nati Cano demonstrate how to play bolero in the mariachi style.

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  • West Virginia, My Home by Hazel Dickens at 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
    video spotlight

    Kronos Quartet and Alim & Fargana Qasimov perform the song "Getme, Getme" live at Barbican Hall's Ramadan Nights Festival in London on September 26, 2008.

    A studio version of this collaboration of the leading new music quartet and master Azerbaijani musicians is featured on Music of Central Asia, Vol. 8: Rainbow. The Music of Central Asia series is a co-production of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the Aga Khan Music Initiative. This live version is featured on Kronos Quartet's recent album "Floodplain".

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Spring 2010 Issue

  • Folkways Magazine is produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

 

  • Cover Story

    Film selections courtesy of Music of Central Asia, a co-production of the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

 

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