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Curated sounds from the Folkways collection
Child Ballads
Year: 2024, Tracks: 25, Length: 91:00
People's Picks: Allegra Krieger
Year: 2024, Tracks: 12, Length: 51:23
Staff Jams: Songs for Fall
Year: 2024, Tracks: 69, Length: 270:00
Folkways Goes... Live!
Year: 2024, Tracks: 100, Length: 727:00
People's Picks: Nathan Salsburg
Year: 2024, Tracks: 25, Length: 80:00
People's Picks: Kishi Bashi
Year: 2024, Tracks: 31, Length: 75:00
People's Picks: Mabe Fratti
Year: 2024, Tracks: 14, Length: 48:54
People's Picks: Wendy Eisenberg
Year: 2024, Tracks: 16
Staff Jams: Spring Fling
Year: 2024, Tracks: 54, Length: 210:00
A Field Guide to... Peru
Year: 2024, Tracks: 23, Length: 71:00
People's Picks: Adia Victoria
Year: 2024, Tracks: 14, Length: 45:38
Charlie Parr's Guitar Influences
Year: 2024, Tracks: 24, Length: 125:00
Dom Flemons Presents: Black Country
Year: 2024, Tracks: 22, Length: 62:00
People's Picks: Cécile McLorin Salvant
Year: 2024, Tracks: 14, Length: 42:35
Folkways Goes... Foodways
Year: 2024, Tracks: 20, Length: 67:00
People's Picks: Buffalo Nichols
Year: 2024, Tracks: 23, Length: 72:00
People's Picks: Johanna Samuels
Year: 2024, Tracks: 19, Length: 74:00
Staff Jams: Winter
Year: 2024, Tracks: 59, Length: 225:00
Winter Solstice
Year: 2023, Tracks: 34, Length: 109:00
People's Picks: Sarah Davachi
Year: 2023, Tracks: 20, Length: 92:00
A Field Guide to... Mississippi
Year: 2023, Tracks: 25, Length: 74:00
The Folkways 75
Year: 2023, Tracks: 75, Length: 255:00
People's Picks: Nora Brown
Year: 2023, Tracks: 20, Length: 65:00
People's Picks: Lankum
Year: 2023, Tracks: 12
Folkways Goes... A Cappella
Year: 2023, Tracks: 50, Length: 108:00
People's Picks: Logan Ledger
Year: 2023, Tracks: 18, Length: 56:02
Fight Like Hell: Music for Labor Day
Year: 2023, Tracks: 26, Length: 84:00
Staff Jams: Late Summer
Year: 2023, Tracks: 77
People's Picks: Jeffrey Silverstein
Year: 2023, Tracks: 12, Length: 32:59
People's Picks: Bonny Doon
Year: 2023, Tracks: 16, Length: 61:00
Introducing: Arhoolie Records
Year: 2023, Tracks: 30, Length: 72:00
The Folkways 25: October '23
Year: 2023, Tracks: 25, Length: 62:00
People's Picks: Dougie Poole
Year: 2023, Tracks: 11, Length: 32:20
Staff Jams: June '23
Year: 2023, Tracks: 76, Length: 321:00
People's Picks: Sunny War
Year: 2023, Tracks: 14, Length: 47:11
Mother's Day with Smithsonian Folkways
Year: 2023, Tracks: 24, Length: 63:00
The Folkways 25: April '23
Year: 2023, Tracks: 25, Length: 115:00
Staff Jams: April '23
Year: 2023, Tracks: 59, Length: 112:00
People's Picks: Fruit Bats
Year: 2023, Tracks: 15, Length: 48:22
A Field Guide to... The Borderlands
Year: 2023, Tracks: 22, Length: 72:00
Folkways Goes... Instrumental
Year: 2023, Tracks: 35, Length: 77:00
People's Picks: Slaughter Beach, Dog
Year: 2023, Tracks: 10, Length: 36:00
Side by Side: Celebrating American Women’s Voices from Smithsonian Folkways
Year: 2023, Tracks: 54, Length: 167:00
Staff Jams: February '23
Year: 2023, Tracks: 48, Length: 225:00
People's Picks: Cornelia Murr
Year: 2023, Tracks: 21, Length: 63:00
Black Love & Joy Through Song
Year: 2023, Tracks: 41, Length: 116:00
The Folkways 25: January '23
Year: 2023, Tracks: 25, Length: 89:00
People's Picks: Mali Obomsawin
Year: 2023, Tracks: 14, Length: 50:23
Resonance: Puentes Sonoros (Quetzal)
Year: 2023, Tracks: 22, Length: 85:00
Esta Navidad en Folkways: Holiday Music of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora
Year: 2022, Tracks: 27, Length: 89:00
People's Picks: Horse Lords
Year: 2022, Tracks: 28, Length: 99:00
Staff Jams: December '22
Year: 2022, Tracks: 50, Length: 225:00
Folkways Goes... Festive
Year: 2022, Tracks: 30, Length: 91:00
People's Picks: David Pajo
Year: 2022, Tracks: 10, Length: 26:44
The Folkways 25: November '22
Year: 2022, Tracks: 25, Length: 78:00
A Field Guide to... The Ozarks
Year: 2022, Tracks: 26, Length: 75:00
People's Picks: Sam Amidon
Year: 2022, Tracks: 19, Length: 51:00
Staff Jams: October 2022
Year: 2022, Tracks: 98, Length: 379:00
People's Picks: Vetiver
Year: 2022, Tracks: 18
The Folkways 25: September '22
Year: 2022, Tracks: 25, Length: 92:00
Jake Blount Presents: Afrofuturism
Year: 2022, Tracks: 18, Length: 100:00
Folkways Goes... Dancing
Year: 2022, Tracks: 42, Length: 128:00
People's Picks: Squirrel Flower
Year: 2022, Tracks: 17, Length: 55:17
Staff Jams: August 2022
Year: 2022, Tracks: 81, Length: 314:00
Resonance: Mỹ Lai (Kronos Quartet)
Year: 2022, Tracks: 26, Length: 103:00
The Folkways 25: July '22
Year: 2022, Tracks: 25, Length: 90:00
People's Picks: Patrick Shiroishi
Year: 2022, Tracks: 18, Length: 81:00
A Field Guide to... North Carolina
Year: 2022, Tracks: 23, Length: 76:00
People's Picks: Isik Kural
Year: 2022, Tracks: 18, Length: 49:00
Staff Jams: June 2022
Year: 2022, Tracks: 95, Length: 390:00
The Brain on Banjos
Year: 2022, Tracks: 33, Length: 98:00
People's Picks: Lee Buford (of The Body)
Year: 2022, Tracks: 18, Length: 86:00
The Folkways 25: May '22
Year: 2022, Tracks: 25, Length: 71:00
Folkways Goes...Outside
Year: 2022, Tracks: 35, Length: 110:00
People's Picks: Aquarium Drunkard
Year: 2022, Tracks: 14, Length: 64:00
Staff Jams: April 2022
Year: 2022, Tracks: 66, Length: 280:00
Resonance: Songs of the Naxi of Southwest China
Year: 2022, Tracks: 28, Length: 83:00
People's Picks: Claire Rousay
Year: 2022, Tracks: 20, Length: 203:00
The Folkways 25: March '22
Year: 2022, Tracks: 25, Length: 82:00
A Field Guide to... Appalachia
Year: 2022, Tracks: 28, Length: 98:00
A People in Flight: African Americans in Movement
Year: 2022, Tracks: 94, Length: 269:00
People’s Picks: Jake Xerxes Fussell
Year: 2022, Tracks: 25, Length: 89:00
People’s Picks: Cassandra Jenkins
Year: 2022, Tracks: 20, Length: 77:00
People’s Picks: Jolie Holland
Year: 2021, Tracks: 15, Length: 67:00
People’s Picks: Jake Blount
Year: 2021, Tracks: 15, Length: 47:00
People’s Picks: Josh Rosenthal (of Tompkins Square Records)
Year: 2021, Tracks: 15, Length: 39:00
People’s Picks: Daniel Bachman
Year: 2021, Tracks: 21, Length: 58:00
People’s Picks: Charlie Parr
Year: 2021, Tracks: 20, Length: 122:00
People’s Picks: William Tyler
Year: 2021, Tracks: 12, Length: 61:00
People’s Picks: Marisa Anderson
Year: 2021, Tracks: 19, Length: 55:00
People’s Picks: Yasmin Williams
Year: 2021, Tracks: 22, Length: 102:00
People’s Picks: No-No Boy
Year: 2021, Tracks: 19, Length: 52:00
People’s Picks: Pearl Charles
Year: 2021, Tracks: 30, Length: 117:00
People’s Picks: Ira Kaplan (of Yo La Tengo)
Year: 2021, Tracks: 23, Length: 121:00
People’s Picks: Aaron Dilloway
Year: 2020, Tracks: 30
People’s Picks: Bonny Light Horseman
Year: 2020, Tracks: 22, Length: 79:00
People’s Picks: Numero Group
Year: 2020, Tracks: 18, Length: 57:00
People’s Picks: Christopher Paul Stelling
Year: 2020, Tracks: 25, Length: 80:00
People’s Picks: Shannen Moser
Year: 2020, Tracks: 20, Length: 64:00
People’s Picks: This Is the Kit
Year: 2019, Tracks: 50, Length: 143:00
People’s Picks: Itasca
Year: 2019, Tracks: 17, Length: 64:00
People’s Picks: Tom Brosseau
Year: 2019, Tracks: 20, Length: 61:00
People's Picks: Sunny Jain
Year: 2019, Tracks: 12, Length: 70:00
People’s Picks: Hiss Golden Messenger
Year: 2019, Tracks: 57, Length: 169:00
People’s Picks: House and Land
Year: 2019, Tracks: 15, Length: 43:00
People’s Picks: Our Native Daughters
Year: 2019, Tracks: 23, Length: 75:00
¡Que Viva la Música Latina!
Year: 2018, Tracks: 13, Length: 49:08
Radio Jarochelo: Connecting Communities
Year: 2016, Tracks: 4, Length: 12:03
Roots of the Grateful Dead from Smithsonian Folkways
Year: 2015, Tracks: 16, Length: 52:26