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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 27 Harmony
Stage
Heritage
Stage
Bristol Mural Stage Appalachian
Kitchen
Ongoing Demonstrations
        "Fresh from the Garden"  
11.00 am Bluegrass:
The East Tennessee State University Student Bluegrass Band
Appalachian Storytelling - Jack Tales:
Frank Proffitt, Jr., Orville Hicks
West Virginia Banjo:
Dwight Diller
Kentucky Mustard Greens
(B. Massey)
Demonstrations of railroad work and song by the Buckingham Lining Bar Gang, horseshoe pitching and pickin' area.
11.45 am Old-Time String Music:
Lester and Linda McCumbers, Jake and Dara Krack, Kim Johnson
What Is It Like to Be Appalachian?   Kale, Cherokee Style
12.00 pm     *African-American Traditions:
Sparky and
Rhonda Rucker
 
12.30 pm Contemporary Appalachian Music: The Celtibillies Gospel Music and Coal Mining Songs   Tomato Jam from Tennessee
(G. Hawkins)
1.00 pm     Cherokee Tales: Lloyd Arneach  
1.30 pm Appalachian Bluegrass:
The VW Boys
*African-American Traditions:
Nat Reese
  *Pinto Beans
(F. McClellan)
2.00 pm     West Virginia Banjo:
Dwight Diller
 
2.15 pm Old-Time String Band:
The New Southern Ramblers
with the Green Grass Cloggers

Guitar Workshop: Wayne Henderson, Doug and Taylor Rorrer

  Kentucky Cole Slaw
(B. Massey)
3.00 pm     Ballads and Stories from Madison County: Sheila Kay Adams Cherokee Wild Greens
3.15 pm Bluegrass:
The East Tennessee State University Student
Bluegrass Band
*Appalachian Storytelling:
Jack Tales:
Orville Hicks,
Frank Proffitt, Jr.
   
3.45 pm       Fresh Salsa
(G. Hawkins)
4.00 pm Contemporary Appalachian Music: The Celtibillies Gospel Music and Coal Mining Songs North Carolina Blues:
John Dee Holeman
 
4.30 pm       *Canned Jams
(H. Christie)
4.45 pm Old-Time String Band:
The New Southern Ramblers
with the Green Grass Cloggers
Ballads and Stories from the Mountains:
Ginny Hawker,
Tracy Schwarz,
Bobby McMillon
   
5.00 pm     *Narrative: Technology in Appalachia  
5.30 pm   West Virginia String Band:
Jake Krack and Lester and Linda McCumbers
   
 
Appalachia Evening Concerts for June 27, 2003
  Appalachia's Harmony Stage:
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm

Appalachian Bluegrass: with the VW Boys

West Virginia String Band: Jack Krack and Lester and Linda McCumbers

6.00 pm - 9.00 pm

NEA Presents National Heritage Winners from Appalachia:
Wayne Henderson, Sheila Kay Adams, Doug Rorrer, Taylor Rorrer, Josh Goforth, Sparky Rucker,
Rhonda Rucker, and Nat Reese

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June 27 Bamako Stage Timbuktu Stage Talking Tree Malian Foodways Ongoing Demonstrations
        "Planning a Feast for a Wedding"  
11.00 am Neba Solo:
Balafon Music from Kénédougou
Tartit:
Tuareg Music and Sword Dance
Yaya Coulibaly: Puppets and Marionettes Labadja:
Mariam Diarra
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).
11.45 am Tabital Pulaku: Fulani Pastoral Music Fashion Show *Religion in Daily Life  
12.00 pm       Almarga Maffé: Fatoumata Sissoko
12.30 pm       Bissap:
Aissa Touré
1.00 pm Festival Program Closed for Friday Prayer from 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm
3.00 pm Groupe Sogonikun: Wassoulou Masked Dancers N'goussoun: Bambara Balafon Music from Bélédougou *Musical Storytellers Laro:
Koumbia Kanté
3.30 pm       Widjila:
Khadiatou Sow
3.45 pm Baba Larab: Takamba Music and Dance of the Sonraï People Tartit:
Tuareg Music and Sword Dance
*Malian Jewelry and Metalwork  
4.00 pm       Couscous Tombuctien: Maimouna Coulibaly Camara
4.30 pm Dogon Masked Dance Group Donso N'goni: Hunters' Music Neba Solo:
Balafon Workshop
 
5.00 pm So Fing:
Somono music
with puppets
Tabital Pulaku: Fulani Pastoral Music *Planning a Wedding Dègè au pain de singe:
Kadia Souko
 
Mali Evening Concerts for June 27, 2003
  Mali's Timbuktu Stage:
5.30 pm - 9.00 pm History in Song: Appalachia, Mali & Scotland
2 Members of the Ensemble Instrumental, Sheena Wellington, Ishbel MacAskill, Stanley Robertson and Sheila Kay Adams
 

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June 27 Fèis Stage Ceilidh Stage Panto Stage Narrative Stage Scottish Kitchen Ongoing Demonstrations
             
11.00 am The Singing Kettle:
Scottish Children's Songs
Songs & Tunes from Gaelic Scotland *Panto!: Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater Songs from Fair Isle  
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.
11.15 am         Meat Curing (Western Isles)
11.30 am       North Sea Oil: Life on an
Off-Shore Rig
 
12.00 pm Scottish Women's Songs about Scottish Men Alasdair Fraser: Scottish Fiddle Music New Scottish Songwriters: Fiona Ritchie of NPR's "Thistle & Shamrock" Interviews Glasgow's Adam McNaughtan   Mince Cooking (Joyce McRae)
12.15 pm       Scots:
The Mither Tongue
 
12.45 am         Chicken Highlander (Alexa Reid)
1.00 pm Brian McNeill & Ed Miller: Scotland the Real Scottish Bagpipes Great & Small Panto!: Cinderella & Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater *Scottish Stories of the Supernatural  
1.30 pm   Fiddlers' Bid: Music from Shetland     Lamb Curry (Anne Sinclair)
2.00 pm The Occasionals: Scottish Dance Workshop   The Singing Kettle:
Scottish Music for Children
(& Parents)
Scottish Tapestry & Dovecot Studios  
2.15 am         (Ishbell MacAskill)
2.30 pm   Tunes & Airs for Scottish Harp & Fiddle      
2.45 pm       Western Isle Storytellers: Island Life in the Outer Hebrides  
3.00 pm Scottish Bagpipes Great & Small Songs & Poetry of Robert Burns Stories of the Shetland Isles   Broth
(Joyce MacRae)
3.30 pm Alasdair Fraser: Strathspeys, Jigs & Reels     *Scottish Crafts:
Tartan &
Harris Weaving
 
3.45 pm     Bothy Songs & Ballads from North East Scotland   Scotch Trifle (Sheena Wellington)
4.00 pm   Songs from Northern Scotland      
4.15 pm       Scottish Heraldry:
Court of the
Lord Lyon
King of Arms
 
4.30 pm Fiddlers' Bid: Music from Shetland Brian McNeill: Songs of Scots at Home & Abroad     Petticoat Tails, Melting Moments ( Joyce MacRae)
4.45 pm     Panto!: Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater    
5.00 pm       Gaelic & Gaelic Poetry  
 
Scotland Evening Concerts for June 27, 2003
  No Evening Concerts today
 
Other Events
Family Activities John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts Millennium Stage
     
11.00 am Stories of Good & Bad Scottish Children  
11.45 am Appalachian Songs & Stories  
12.30 pm Cherokee Stories  
1.15 pm Scottish Toys & Games  
2.00 pm Dr. McWhat?: Tartan Time Lord  
2.45 pm Appalachian Songs  
3.30 pm Malian Greetings & Names  
4.15 pm Malian Puppets  
5.00 pm Malian Music  
5.30 pm   Dance Workshop: Maria Leask
6.00 pm   The Occasionals: Scottish Ceilidh Dance from Edinburgh with host Fiona Ritchie
 
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