Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has recently announced the Friends of Folkways program, which is an opportunity for the public to get involved with and support the preservative digital archive. The ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the 1960s and 70s, Columbia University student David Nzomo recorded six albums of traditional Kenyan songs from his childhood for Folkways ...

Arhoolie Records, the El Cerrito-based roots music label that released records from blues legends such as Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mississippi Fred McDowell, announced Tuesday that its ...

At a time when record companies get traded like properties in a Monopoly game and have about as much personality, the legacy of Folkways Records seems all the more remarkable. Founder Moses Asch spent ...

In the 60s, label executive and record producer Chris Strachwitz founded the independent label Arhoolie Records, which has since become an iconic home for folk, blues, Cajun, and other world roots… By ...

To celebrate Ella Jenkins on her hundredth birthday in August, we asked a group of musicians how Ella has inspired them. Sophie Abramowitz In 2007, the Smithsonian recognized Ella Jenkins’s fifty-year ...

In May, after a process that's taken approximately 30 years, Smithsonian Folkways announced it had acquired the entire Stinson Records catalog -- home to iconic recordings by the likes of Woody… By ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In advance of Folkways Records' 75th anniversary, Matmos accepted a ...

San Francisco-based preschool teacher Greg Gardner says he and his friend, singer-songwriter Cass McCombs, "have collected way too many Folkways records" over the years — by Woody Guthrie, Michael ...

In the middle of January, with temperatures hovering around zero degrees, John Smith and his colleagues at Smithsonian Folkways drove a truck up to a 19th century homestead in Sharon, Connecticut to ...