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The 2003 Smithsonian Folklife
Festival celebrated the
living traditional cultures of the
Republic of Mali, Scotland, and Appalachia.
June 25 - 29, July 2 - 6, 2003
on the National Mall
 
*American Sign Language interpreted
Times listed are starting times
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June 25 Harmony
Stage		 Heritage
Stage		 Bristol Mural Stage Appalachian
Kitchen		 Ongoing
Demonstrations
        "Regional Sampling"

 
11.00 am Opening Ceremony
12.00 pm Old-Time String Band:
Ballads from the Mountains:
*Appalachian Storytelling - Jack Tales:
Orville Hicks, Frank Proffitt, Jr.		 Kentucky Barbeque (B. Massey)

Ongoing demonstrations of railroad work and song by the Buckingham Lining Bar Gang, horseshoe pitching, pickin' area
12.30 pm Appalachian Bluegrass:
The VW Boys 		West Virginia Strings:
Jake and Dara Krack, Kim Johnson, Dwight Diller 		   
12.45 pm       Appalachian Cooking w/Shiitake Mushrooms
(F. McClellan)
1.00 pm     Blues:
John Dee Holeman and Nat Reese 		 
1:15        
1.30 pm Contemporary Appalachian Music Band:
The Celtibillies		 Gospel Music and Coal Mining Songs   Tennessee Salsa
(G. Hawkins)
2.00 pm     *Ballads and Hymns:
Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz 		 
2.15 pm Old-Time String Band:
Jake and Dara Krack with Kim Johnson		 Bluegrass:
The East Tennessee State University Student Bluegrass Band 		  Mexican Bread
(B. Massey)
3.00 pm     Cherokee Stories: Lloyd Arneach Cherokee Bean Bread
3.15 pm African-American Traditions:
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, Nat Reese		 North Carolina Appalachian Storytelling:
Orville Hicks, Frank Proffitt, Jr.		    
3.45 pm       *Modern Appalachian Cooking
(H. Christie)
4.00 pm Contemporary Appalachian Music: The Celtibillies Guitar Workshop: Wayne Henderson, Doug and Taylor Rorrer West Virginia Banjo:
Dwight Diller 		 
4.30 pm       Tennessee/Mexican Cooking
(G. Hawkins)
4.45 pm African-American Traditions:
John Dee Holeman, Sparky and Rhonda Rucker 		Gospel Music and Coal Mining Songs    
5.00 pm     *Ballads and Stories:
Bobby McMillon		  
5.30 pm Old Time String Band: The New Southern Ramblers with Ralph Blizard Guitar Workshop    
 
Appalachia Evening Concerts for June 25, 2003
  Appalachia's Harmony Stage:
5.30 pm - 6.15 pm Old-Time String Band:
The New Southern Ramblers
(with Ralph Blizard)
6.15 pm - 7.00 pm Bluegrass:
The East Tennessee State Student Bluegrass Band
with The Green
Grass Cloggers

 

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June 25 Bamako Stage Timbuktu Stage Talking Tree Malian Foodways Ongoing Demonstrations
           
12.00 pm *Neba Solo:
Balafon Music from Kénédougou 		Tartit:
Tuareg Song and Sword Dance		 Yaya Coulibaly: Marionettes & Puppets Rice Cakes:
Koumba Kanté
Ongoing demonstrations in textiles
(carding, spinning, hand weaving of wool and cotton fabrics, dyeing techniques of mudcloth (bogolan), indigo, and tie-dye damask, hand and machine embroidery, and fashion design), metalwork and jewelry, leatherwork, baskets, straw mats and jewelry, pottery, sculpture, traditional medicine and the arts of adornment (henna for hand and feet decoration, hair braiding and hairstyling with beads).
12.45 pm Baba Larab: Takamba Music and Dance of the Sonraï People N'goussoun: Bambara Balafon Music from Bélédougou Growing Up in Mali  
1.00 pm       Tiga dègè na: Khadiatou Sow
1.30 pm So Fing:
Somono Music with Puppets		 Tabital Pulaku:
Fulani Pastoral Music 		*What Makes a Woman Beautiful?  
2.00 pm       Wosobula na (sauce with
potato leaves):
Ami Sow
2.15 pm Musical Storytellers Ensemble Instrumental: National Traditional Ensemble Donso N'goni: Hunters' Music  
3.00 pm Groupe Sogonikun: Wassoulou Masked Dancers Tartit:
Tuareg Song and Sword Dance		 *Keeping in Touch with Home Acra
(bean fritters)
and spicy sauce:
Kadia Souko
3.45 pm Baba Larab: Takamba Music of the Sonraï Tabital Pulaku:
Fulani Pastoral Music		 Malian Textiles: Processes and Patterns  
4.00 pm       Fonio
(a grain served
like couscous): Fatoumata Sissoko
4.30 pm Dogon Masked Dance Group N'goussoun:
Bambara Balafon Music from Bélédougou		 Malian Clothing Designers and Use of Malian Textiles  
5.00 pm       Gan Kèné Na (Okra Sauce):
Mariam Diarra
5.15 pm So Fing:
Somono Music
with Puppets		 *Musical Storytellers Groupe Sogonikun: Wassoulou Masked Dances  
6.00 pm Coulibaly:
Malian Puppets & Marionettes 		Tabital Pulaku:
Fulani Pastoral Music 		Malian Pottery Almarga Maffé and Widjila:
Maimouna Coulibaly Camara
6.45 pm Baba Larab: Takamba Music and Dance of the Sonraï? People

Tartit:
Tuareg Song and Sword Dance		 Malians in the United States

 
 
Mali Evening Concerts for June 25, 2003
  Mali's Timbuktu Stage:
7.30 pm - 9.00 pm Malian Celebration: Neba Solo and Ensemble Instrumental
 

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June 25 Fèis Stage Ceilidh Stage Panto Stage Narrative Stage Scottish Kitchen Ongoing Demonstrations
             
12.00 pm City of Washington Pipe Band   Panto!:
Cinderella & Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater		   Small Buns (Joyce MacRae)
Tartan weaving and designing; Harris Tweed weaving; silversmithing; Shetland basket-weaving; Orkney chair-making;
kilt-making; whisky- distilling and the related skills of malting, cooperage, and coppersmithing; Fair Isle boat-building; heraldry; genealogy and genealogical research; golf club making; curling stone making; knitting traditions from Shetland, Fair Isle, and Sanquhar; tapestry weaving;
sporran-making; stonemasonry; gilding & restoration crafts; harp-making; and bagpipe making.
12.15 pm Fiddlers' Bid:
Music from Shetland		     Gaelic Songs of the Sea  
12.30 pm   The Occasionals: Scottish Ceilidh Dance      
12.45 pm         Shortbread (Alexa Reid)
1.00 pm     The Singing Kettle: Scottish Children's Songs *Western Isles Storytellers:
Life in the
Outer Hebrides		  
1.15 pm Alasdair Fraser: Scottish Fiddle        
1.30 pm   Bothy Ballads & Songs of Rural Scotland     Bannocks (Anne Sinclai)
1.45 pm       *Scottish Stories of Wise & Foolish People  
2.00 pm     Panto!:
Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater 		   
2.15 pm Scottish Ballads: History in Song Harp, Pipes & Scottish Instrumental Music     Fruit Bread (Joyce MacRae)
2.30 pm      

North Sea Oil:
Life on the
Off-Shore Rigs

  
3.00 pm   The Singing Kettle: Scottish Children's Songs *Stories of Scottish Travellers and Traveling   Cranachan
(Anne Reid )
3.15 pm Gaelic Songs of Love & Work     Weaving Scottish Tartan:
Legend, Lore,
and Craft		  
3.45 pm         Griddle Scones & Oatmeal Bannocks (Anne Siclair)
4.00 pm Shetland Dance Workshop Alasdair Fraser: Scottish Fiddle Clarsach:
Tunes & Airs for Scottish Harp: Billy Jackson		 Scottish Small Pipes  
4.30 pm Fiddlers' Bid:
Music from Shetland		   *Panto!:
Cinderella & Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater		   Date & Walnut Loaf
(Joyce MacRae)
4.45 pm   Heroes, Heroines & Villains in Scottish Ballads   Doric Songs & Stories from Aberdeen  
 
Scotland Evening Concerts for June 25, 2003
  Scotland's Ceilidh Stage:
5.30 pm - 7.00 pm The Occasionals: Scottish Dance Workshop & Ceilidh. Featuring caller Sheila McCutcheon and, from Shetland, Special Guest caller Maria Leask. [Iain MacDonald, Piper]
 
Other Events
Family Activities John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts Millennium Stage
     
12.00 pm Appalachian Songs & Stories  
12.30 pm Scottish Toys & Games  
1.15 pm Cherokee Stories  
2.00 pm Appalachian Songs & Stories  
2.45 pm Dr. Mc What?: Tartan Time Lord  
3.30 pm Malian Names & Greetings  
4.15 pm Malian Puppets  
5.00 pm Malian Music & Dance  
6.00 pm   Appalachian Bluegrass: The VW Boys
 
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