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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 28 Harmony
Stage
Heritage
Stage
Bristol Mural Stage Appalachian
Kitchen
Ongoing Demostrations
        "Appalachian Staples"  
11.00 am Old-Time String Band:
The New Southern Ramblers
West Virginia Blues:
Nat Reese
Guitar Workshop: Wayne Henderson, Doug and
Taylor Rorrer
Catfish
(F. McClellan)

Demonstrations of railroad work and song by the Buckingham Lining Bar Gang, horseshoe pitching and pickin' area.

11.45 am Appalachian Bluegrass:
The VW Boys
*Appalachian Storytelling - Jack Tales:
Orville Hicks,
Frank Proffitt, Jr.
  Strawberry/
Rhubarb Dumplings
12.00 pm     West Virginia Banjo:
Dwight Diller
 
12.30 pm Contemporary Appalachian Music: The Celtibillies Ballads from the Mountains:
Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz
  Meatloaf
(G. Hawkins)
1.00 pm     *North Carolina Blues:
John Dee Holeman
 
1.30 pm Bluegrass:
The East Tennessee State University Student
Bluegrass Band
Ballads and Stories:
Bobby McMillon
  Barbeque
(B. Massey)
2.00 pm     American Indians in Appalachia (narrative):
Lloyd Arneach and Bernadine George
 

2.15 pm

 

 

 

Old-Time String Band:
The New Southern Ramblers (with Ralph Blizard) with the Green Grass Cloggers
*Gospel Music and Coal Mining Songs   *Cornbread
(F. McClellan)
2:45        

3.00 pm

 

Appalachian Bluegrass:
The VW Boys
  African American Traditions: Nat Reese and Sparky & Rhoda Rucker Chicken
(H. Christie)
3.15 pm   Ballads from the Mountains:
Sheila Kay Adams
   
3.45 pm        
4.00 pm Contemporary Appalachian Music: The Celtibillies Cherokee Storytelling:
Lloyd Arneach
*Guitar Workshop: Wayne Henderson, Doug and
Taylor Rorrer
Fried Potatoes
4.30 pm        
4.45 pm   African-American Traditions:
Sparky and
Rhonda Rucker
  Mexican Dips
(G. Hawkins)
5.00 pm Bluegrass:
The East Tennessee State University Student
Bluegrass Band with the Green Grass Cloggers
  *Ballads:
Bobby McMillon
 
5.30 pm   Gospel Music and Coal Mining Songs: Dorothy Myles and Stanley Almon    
 
Appalachia Evening Concerts for June 28, 2003
  Appalachia's Harmony Stage:
5.15 pm - 6.00 pm Dance Party: with Jake ad Dara Kack, Lester and Linda McCumbers, and Kim Johnson
6.00 pm - 9.00 pm

NEA Presents National Heritage Winners from Appalachia
John Dee Holeman, Nat Reese, Jake Krack, Dara Krack, Lester McCumbers, Linda McCumbers, Kim Johnson, Dwight Diller, Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz

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June 28 Bamako Stage Timbuktu Stage Talking Tree Malian Foodways Ongoing Demonstrations
        "Wedding meals"
 
11.00 am Baba Larab: Takamba Music and Dance of the Sonraï People Tabital Pulaku: Fulani Pastoral Music *Wedding Day Stories 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 Dogon Masked Dance Group N'goussoun: Bambara Balafon Music from Bélédougou Wedding Preparations  
12.00 pm       Almarga Maffé: Fatoumata Sissoko
12.30 pm So Fing:
Somono Music
with Puppets
Neba Solo:
Balafon Music from Kénédougou
   
1.00 pm       Bissap:
Aissa Touré
1.15 pm Groupe Sogonikun: Wassoulou
Masked Dancers
Fashion Show    
2.00 pm Yaya Coulibaly: Puppets & Marionettes Tartit:
Tuareg Music and Sword Dance
Family Praise Music Laro:
Koumbia Kanté
2.45 pm Donso N'goni: Hunters' Music Tabital Pulaku: Fulani Pastoral Music    
3.00 pm     *Oumou Sangaré: Growing Up in Mali, Marriage and Song Widjila:
Kadiatou Sow
3.30 pm So Fing:
Somono Music
with Puppets
Groupe Sogonikun: Wassoulou
Masked Dancers
   
4.00 pm     Baba Larab: Takamba Music and Dance of the Sonrai People

Couscous Tombuctien: Maimouna Coulibaly Camara
4.15 pm *Musical Storytellers Tartit:
Tuareg Music and Sword Dance
   
5.00 pm Dogon Masked Dance Group Neba Solo:
Balafon Music
from Kénédougou
  Dégé au pain de singe:
Kadia Souko
 
Mali Evening Concerts for June 28, 2003
  Mali's Timbuktu Stage:
6.00 pm - 9.00 pm *Malian Music: Ensemble Instrumental, National Traditional Ensemble, and Oumou Sangaré, "The Queen of Wassoulou"

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June 28 Fèis Stage Ceilidh Stage Panto Stage Narrative Stage Scottish Kitchen Ongoing Craft Demonstrations
             
11.00 am Songs of Scottish Life The Singing Kettle:
Scottish Music for Children
(& Parents)
Panto!: Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater *North Sea Oil: Life on an Off-Shore Rig  
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         Bannock
(Joyce MacRae)
11.45 am       Shetland Islands: Contemporary Life in an Ancient Land  
12.00 pm Scottish Instrumental Traditions Brian McNeill: Scottish Songs & Tunes     Lamb Curry (Anne Sinclair)
12.15 pm     *A Burns Supper: Traditional Celebration of Scotland's Bard    
12.30 pm       Fishing and Fisherfolk of the Outer Hebrides  
12.45 pm         Lamb
(Joyce MacRae)
1.00 pm The Occasionals: Ceilidh Dance Party Scottish Songs of Music & Musicians      
1.15 pm       Scottish Heraldry: Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms  
1.30 pm     Panto!: Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater   Chicken Highlander (Alexa Reid)
1.45 pm       The Art of Distilling Scotch Whisky  
2.00 pm Fiddler's Bid: Music from Shetland Scottish Bagpipes Great & Small      
2.15 pm         Cullen Skink (Anne Reid)
2.30 pm   Johnny Cunningham: Scottish Fiddle Scottish Masters:
Fiona Ritchie of NPR's "Thistle & Shamrock" Interviews Fiddler
Alasdair Fraser
*Scottish Tartan:
Legend, Lore
and Craft
 
3.00 pm Brian McNeill: Songs of Rovers and Roving       Mince
(Joyce MacRae)
3.15 pm     The Singing Kettle:
Scottish Music for Children
Scots:
The Mither Tongue
 
3.30 pm   The Occasionals: Scottish Ceilidh Dance      
3.45 pm         Whole Fish & Herring
(Western Isle Storytellers)
4.00 pm Shetland Dance Workshop   *The Relative Merits of Scottish Cities: Glasgow vs. Edinburgh Scottish Stories of the Supernatural  
4.30 pm Fiddlers' Bid: Music from Shetland Alasdair Fraser: Scottish Fiddle     Stovies (Alexa Reid)
4.45 pm     Panto!: Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater Gaelic Poetry & Love Songs  
 
Scotland Evening Concerts for June 28, 2003
  Scotland's Ceilidh Stage:
5.30 pm - 7.00 pm Celebration of the Scottish Fiddle: with host Fiona Ritchie
Johnny Cunningham, Alasdair Fraser, Brian McNeill and Ed Miller
 
Other Events
Family Activities John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts Millennium Stage
     
11.00 am Songs & Stories from North East Scotland  
11.45 am Dr. Mc What?: Tartan Time Lord  
12.30 pm Appalachian Songs & Stories  
1.15 pm Scottish Toys & Games  
2.00 pm Appalachian Stories  
2.45 pm Appalachian Stories  
3.30 pm Malian Names & Greetings  
4.15 pm Malian Puppets  
5.00 pm Malian Music & Dance  
6.00 pm   No Concerts tonight
 
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