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Title: Cormac Ó Haodha: Kluge Lomax Fellow from Cúil Aodha in the Múscraí gaeltacht of County Cork, Ireland.
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Cormac Ó Haodha, Elizabeth Cronin, Máire Ní Cheocháin, Seán Eoin Ó Súilleabháin, Diarmuid Ó Riordáin
Date: May 31, 2024
Running Time: 39:13 minutes
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Title: 2023 Summer Interns: Reflections and Research Guides
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Joseph Z. Johnson, Deena Owens, Elizabeth Cotton, Stranger Home Baptist Church Singers, 1942 Alabama Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Dink Roberts.
Date: October 30, 2023
Running Time: 34:02 minutes
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Title: The 2023 Homegrown Concert Series
Speakers: Stephen Winick, Theadocia Austen, Jake Blount, Charlie Pilzer, Kristian Blak, Sharon Weiss, Spaelimenninir, Christylez Bacon, Doug Peach, Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet.
Date: August 24, 2023
Running Time: 42:15 minutes
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Title: Asian Pacific American Heritage
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Allina Migoni,Robert Provine, Sara Ludewig,Tenzin Choegyal.
Date: May 26, 2023
Running Time: 34:07 minutes
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Title: Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories
Speakers: Allina Migoni, Michelle Stefano, Yoshiko Nagashima, David Nagashima, Miiko Toelken, Iyo Nagashima, Kay Turner, Sarah Sohn, Geraldine Niva Johnson, Donna Choate, Zenna Todd, Theadocia Austen, Mary Sheppard Burton, Christine Cartwright.
Date: March 31, 2023
Running Time: 46:10 minutes
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Title: Groundhog Day
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Michelle Stefano, Ernie Alston, King Family string band, George “Shortbuckle” Roarke, Sam Chatmon.
Date: February 2, 2022
Running Time: 22:54 minutes
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Title: Scary Stories for Halloween 2022
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Aunt Molly Jackson, John Jackson, Jack Santino.
Date: October 27, 2022
Running Time: 21:09 minutes
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Title: Caught My Eye, Caught My Ear, Staff Edition, Including Tributes to Tony Barrand and Mick Moloney
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Jennifer Cutting, Cecil Sharp, Victor Band, Victor Military Band, Prince’s Band, Liz Carroll, Tommy Maguire, Michael Flatley.
Date: September 20, 2022
Running Time: 31:15 minutes
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Title: Caught My Eye: Intern Edition!
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Bryan Jenkins, Allina Migoni, Elisa Alfonso, Adelpha Pollato, Lottie Espinosa, Ramona Ramirez, Olga Acevedo.
Date: September 12, 2022
Running Time: 28:22 minutes
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Title: Ukrainian Traditions at the American Folklife Center
Speakers: John Fenn, Michelle Stefano, Theadocia Austen, Geraldine Niva Johnson, Taissa Decyk, Julian Kytasty, Stephen Winick, Andrei Pidkivka, Solomia Gorokhivska, Kalin Kirilov
Date: July 8, 2022
Running Time: 34:40 minutes
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Title: A Tribute to Irish American Women
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Betsy Peterson, Maggie Hammons Parker, Hattie Scott Gould, Jennifer Cutting, Gary Ward Stanton, Paula Johnson, May Mulcahy, Carrie Grover, Melanie Zeck, Eileen Gannon, Liz Carroll, Tommy Maguire
Date: March 28, 2022
Running Time: 43:30 minutes
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Title: Songs of Spring
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Thea Austen, Pearl Nye, Bob Copper, Jim Copper, Baptiste Pierre, Rubén Cobos, Warde Ford, Chicago Zither Club
Date: February 28, 2022
Running Time: 22:40 minutes
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Title: La Llorona: Looking at a Ghost Story for Día de Muertos and Halloween
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Allina Migoni, Camille Acosta, Juan Dies, Mamselle Ruiz, Trio Aurora, Sones de Mexico Ensemble, Navigaciones Pedro Manuel
Date: October 27, 2021
Running Time: 54:35 minutes
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Title: The 2021 Homegrown at Home Concert Series
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Theadocia Austen, Neli Andreeva, Brother Arnold Hadd, Radiance Choir, Martin Carthy, harbanger, Kennedi Johnson, Samite Mulongo, Camille Acosta, Hubby Jenkins, Mamselle Ruiz
Date: September 28, 2021
Running Time: 48:24 minutes
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Title: Summer Songs Part 2
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Jennifer Cutting, Colin Davis, Cephus Louis, James Griffin, Kara-kys Namzatovna Munzuk, Mrs. Francisco Etcheverry, Matias Etcheverry
Date: September 15, 2021
Running Time: 25:05 minutes
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Title: Summer Songs Part 1
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, In the Willows, Nicole Saylor, Jalmar and Mamie Nukala, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Mose Bellaire, Jennifer Cutting, Kara-kys Namzatovna Munzuk, Aleksandr Laptan, Clyde Hill
Date: August 9, 2021
Running Time: 31:29 minutes
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Title: Hidden Folklorists: Langston Hughes, with guests Langston Collin Wilkins and Sophie Abramowitz
Speakers:Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Langston Collin Wilkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Sophie Abramowitz, Buena Flint.
Date: June 30, 2021
Running Time: 38:14 minutes
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Title: Hidden Folklorists: Becky Elzy, Alberta Bradford and E.A. McIlhenny, with guest Joshua Clegg Caffery
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Joshua Clegg Caffery, Alan Lomax, Alberta Bradford, Becky Elzy, Jimmy Peters and Group.
Date: May 28, 2021
Running Time: 37:22 minutes
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Title: "Colorado Morton’s Ride"
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Fred Soule.
Date: April 30, 2021
Running Time: 11:44 minutes
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Title: Folklife and Poetry
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Anne Holmes, M.L. Smoker, Michelle Stefano, Marjan Naderi, Kerry Ward, Meezie Hermansen, Fred Soule.
Date: April 30, 2021
Running Time: 53:06 minutes
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Title: The Green Book and African American Travel with Candacy Taylor
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Candacy Taylor, Leah Chase, Enid Pinkney, Jerry Markowitz, Nelson Malden, Calvin Frazier, Sampson Pittman.
Date: February 25, 2021
Running Time: 51:05 minutes
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Title: Sea Shanties
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, John Davis, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Richard Maitland, Leighton Robinson, Alex Barr, Arthur Brodeur, Leighton McKenzie, Charles J. Finger, Miss Finger, Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Florence Brooks, Eugenie Carter, Louisa Carty, James A. Gumbs, Alberta Harrigan, Claudette Hazel, Evans Hughes, Edith Lloyd, Estelle Reid, Edith Richardson, Ship’s Company Chanteymen, Myron Peterson, Mike Bosworth, Dallas Valley.
Date: January 29, 2021
Running Time: 22:46 minutes
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Title: The Peaceful Transfer of Mumming: American Folklife Center 2020 Mummers’ Play
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Jennifer Cutting, Stephanie Hall, Valda Morris, Michelle Stefano, George Thuronyi, Hope O’Keeffe, Theadocia Austen, Norman Edmonds, Paul Edmonds, Rufus Quesinberry, unknown singers.
Date: December 16, 2020
Running Time: 31:42 minutes
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Title: Haunting Songs for Halloween 2020
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Jennifer Cutting, Jean Ritchie, A. L. Lloyd, I. G. Greer, Willie Greer, Lena Bare Turbyfill, Séamus Ennis, James Carter, Ed Lewis, Henry Mason, Johnny Lee Moore.
Date: October 28, 2020
Running Time: 45:21 minutes
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Title: America Works, Episode 1 - Barbara Miller Byrd, Circus Owner. Hugo, Oklahoma
Speakers: Barbara Miller Byrd, Tanya D. Finchum, Juliana Nykolaiszyn, Nancy Groce
Date: September 3, 2020
Running Time: 9:39
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Title: Watch Homegrown Concerts and Take the Archive Challenge—at Home!
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Theadocia Austen, Jennifer Cutting, Dom Flemons, Marcus Howell, Walter Parks, Steve Riley, Burke Riley, Dolsy Riley, Jeneda Benally, Clayson Benally, Jones Benally, Emma Björling, Petrus Johansson, Sean Ardoin, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason.
Date: August 31, 2020
Running Time: 40:27 minutes
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Title: America Works - Series Preview
Speakers: Nancy Groce, various
Date: August 27, 2020
Running Time: 1:01
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Title: What’s Inspiring the American Folklife Center Staff During the Virus Crisis
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Alda Allina Migoni, Michelle Stefano, Lottie Espinosa, Los Amantes, Mary Lane, John Embry, Queen Sylvia Embry, Herbert Halpert, Stetson Kennedy, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Lerman, Whit Sizemore Band, Margaret Counts Owen, Tommy Jarrell, Adelaido Chavez, Adolfo Chavez, Amado Trujillo
Date: May 26, 2020
Running Time: 48:42
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Title: On the Road With Alan Lomax, a “By the People” Campaign from the Library of Congress
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, Almeda Riddle, Ferguson Adams, Lauren Algee, Victoria Van Hyning, Vera Ward Hall, Bessie Jones, Todd Harvey, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Aapo Juhani, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Seamus Ennis, Bob Copper, Ron Copper, Francilia, Lakou Mizik
Date: March 31, 2020
Running Time: 56:30
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Title: Winter Songs Part 2
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Stephanie Hall, Bogue Ford, George Vinton Graham, Ward Ford, Charles Ingenthron, Isaac Garfield Greer, Jennifer Cutting, Peggie MacGillivray, unidentified children, Lisa Moscatiello
Date: February 25, 2020
Running Time: 30:32
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Title: Winter Songs Part 1
Speakers: Stephen Winick, John Fenn, Theadocia Austen, Hettie Swindel, Sampson Pittman, Calvin Frazier, Loretta Kelley, Unidentified Georgian Singers, Carl Lathrop
Date: January 23, 2020
Running Time: 31:01
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Title: “The Candidate’s a Dodger”: An American Folksong from Oral Tradition to Aaron Copland and Beyond
Speakers: Stephen Winick, Theadocia Austen, Jennifer Cutting, Wayne Shirley, Thomas Hampson, Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Emma Dusenbury, Myra Pipkin, Neal Morris, Minnie Floyd, Nancy Humble Griffin
Date: November 26, 2019
Running Time: 53:59
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Title: Scary Stories for Halloween 2019
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Jackie Torrence, Mary Celestia Parler, Connie Regan Blake
Date: October 28, 2019
Running Time: 30:15 minutes
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Title: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Ann Hoog, Ralph Metcalfe Jr., James Mack, Carl Fleischhauer, John Katsikas, Jens Lund, Paul Sveinbjorn Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, Gamaliel “Bobby” Ramírez, Michelle Stefano, Beverly Robinson, Margaret Burroughs, Edith Wilson, Magic Slim.
Date: September 30, 2019
Running Time: 55:16 minutes
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Title: More Hidden Folklorists
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Jennifer Cutting, Charles J. Finger, John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax, Clark Kenyon, John Sawyer, Archer Gilfillan, Paul Martin.
Date: August 28, 2019
Running Time: 39:00 minutes
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Title: "Is 'Ring Around the Rosie' About the Plague?" A Look at Children's Songs.
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Carolyn Bennett, Henry Truvillion, John A. Lomax, Hasel Futch, Corine Jackson, Herbert Halpert, Unidentified Children.
Date: July 29, 2019
Running Time: 36:31 minutes
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Title: Occupational Folklife
Speakers: Billy Bragg, John Fenn, Stephen Winick, David Taylor, Archie Green, James "Blind Jim" Howard, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Groce, Pat Jasper, Gilda Ramirez, Betsy Peterson, Tom Lightsey, Nicole Saylor, Terry James Thibodeaux, Melissa Lindberg, Kelly Revak, Barbara Miller Byrd, Kelly Pace
Date: June 28, 2019
Running Time: 56:57 minutes
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Title: Agnes Vanderburg's Outdoor School for Traditional Indian Ways
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Stephanie Hall, Judith Gray, Carl Fleischhauer, Trelani Duncan, Marjorie Hunt, Agnes Vanderburg, Rachel Bowers, Kay Young, unidentified boy, Mary Trotchie
Date: May 31, 2019
Running Time: 39:30 minutes
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Title: Hidden Folklorists
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Michelle Stefano, Stephanie Hall, Muhannad Salhi, Solomon HaileSelassie, Bahiya Jamali, John Burgess, Jeannie Robertson, Hawaiian Qunitette, Unukupukupu ensemble, E. K. Rose, Kenan Adnawi, Phil Wiggins, Rick Franklin, Marcus Moore, Junious Brickhouse, Ledward Kaapana
Date: April 30, 2019
Running Time: 46:06 minutes
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Title: The Origin of All Folklore Everywhere
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Michelle Stefano, Stephanie Hall, Jennifer Cutting
Date: March 28, 2019
Running Time: 26:14 minutes
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Title: Civil Rights History Project
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Elaine Nichols, Elizabeth Peterson, Kelly Navies, Guha Shankar, Joe Mosnier, Kelly Revak, Julia Kim, David Cline, Carlos Montes, Charles McDew, Ruby Sales, Freeman Hrabowski, Emilye Crosby, Worth Long, Timothy Jenkins, Trelani Duncan, and Ellie Dahmer
Date: February 25, 2019
Running Time: 54:16 minutes
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Title: Kumbaya: Stories of an African American Spiritual
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Judith Gray, Todd Harvey, Jennifer Cutting, Joe Hickerson, Griffin Lotson, Henry Wylie, Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, Bessie Jones, Ethel Best, McIntosh County Shouters, Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters, The Folksmiths, Paul Williams, Pete Seeger
Date: January 22, 2019
Running Time: 41:14 minutes
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Title: Christmas Songs from the American Folklife Center
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Stephanie Hall, Nancy Groce, Jennifer Cutting, Aunt Molly Jackson, Burl Ives, Jilson Setters, Jean Ritchie, Samuel Martinez Y Lavadí, Adolfo Chavez, Julian Lobato, The Silver Star Singers, The Davies Hill School Chorus, Bessie Jones, Exilia and Moise Bellaire, and the AFC Mummers
Date: December 17, 2018
Running Time: 28:37 minutes
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Title: Festive Foods and Menus
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Megan Harris, Mackenzie Kwok, Albert Allen Jr., Anna M. Ruiz
Date: November 19, 2018
Running Time: 19:15 minutes
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Title: Haunting Tunes for Halloween
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Jack Santino, Nancy Groce, Carl Fleischhauer, Jennifer Cutting, Nicole Saylor, Gerret Warner, Jeff Warner, Ian Fitzgerald, Burl Hammons, Pablo Ruthling, Kilby Snow, Fred Carriere, Vera Ward Hall
Date: October 29, 2018
Running Time: 39:46 minutes
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