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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 29 Schedule Harmony
Stage
Heritage
Stage
Bristol Mural Stage Appalachian
Kitchen
Ongoing Demonstrations
        "Breads and Spreads"  
11.00 am Bluegrass:
The East Tennessee State University Student
Bluegrass Band
Appalachian Storytelling:
Lloyd Arneach, Orville Hicks,
Frank Proffitt, Jr.
Guitar Workshop: Wayne Henderson, Doug and
Taylor Rorrer
Cornbread
(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
Gospel Music and Coal Mining Songs: Dorothy Myles   Queso Verde
(G. Hawkins)
12.00 pm     *Ballads from the Mountains:
Sheila Kay Adams
 
12.30 pm West Virginia Strings: J
ake and Dara Krack, Dwight Diller, Kim Johnson
Contemporary Appalachian Music: The Celtibillies   Lye Dumplings
1.00 pm     Cherokee Tales: Lloyd Arneach  
1.30 pm Old-Time String Band:
The New Southern Ramblers (with Ralph Blizard) with the Green Grass Cloggers
Guitar Workshop: Wayne Henderson, Doug and
Taylor Rorer
  Barbeque Sauce (B. Massey)
2.00 pm     *Blues:
Nat Reese and John Dee Holeman
 
2.15 pm Contemporary Appalachian Music: The Celtibillies Gospel Music and Coal Mining Songs: Dorothy Myles and Stanley Almen   Cherokee Bean Bread
3.00 pm     West Virginia Banjo:
Dwight Diller
*Cross- Program: Baked Goods from Scotland, Mali, Appalachia
3.15 pm Old-Time String Band:
The New Southern Ramblers (with Ralph Blizard)
Ballads from the Mountains:
Ginny Hawker,
Sheila Kay Adams
   
3.45 pm African-American Traditions:
Nat Reese, Sparky and Rhonda Rucker
     
4.00 pm African- American Traditions: Nat Reese, Sparky & RRhonda Rucker *I've Been Working on the Railroad - Work and Songs: The Buckingham Lining Bar Gang Ballads and Stories:
Bobby McMillon
Bean Dip
(G. Hawkins)
4.45 pm Old-Time String Music:
Jake Krack and Lester and Linda McCumbers
Bluegrass:
The East Tennessee State University Student
Bluegrass Band
  Mexican Bread
(B. Massey)
5.00 pm     *African-American Traditions:
Sparky and
Rhonda Rucker
 
5.30 pm   Appalachian Bluegrass:
The VW Boys

   
 
Appalachia Evening Concerts for June 29, 2003
  Appalachia's Harmony Stage:
5.30 pm - 9.00 pm Beautiful Beyond: Christian Songs in Native Languages
Cherokee National Youth Choir, The Welch Family, Eastern Band Cherokee, TeecNosPos Gospel Melody, Oneida and Cheyenne River Mission Singers
 
June 29 Schedule Bamako Stage Timbuktu Stage Talking Tree Malian Foodways Ongoing Demonstrations
        "Wedding meals"
 
11.00 am So Fing:
Somono Music
with Puppets
Tartit:
Tuareg Music and Sword Dance
Donso N'goni: Hunters' Music Gan na (okra sauce):
Fatoumata Sissoko:
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 *Baba Larab: Takamba Music and Dance of the Sonraï People Neba Solo:
Balafon Music from Kénédougou
Growing Up in Mali  
12.00 pm       To:
Mariam Diarra
12.30 pm Dogon Masked Dance Group Tabital Pulaku: Fulani Pastoral Music Malian Baskets  
1.00 pm       Hagakoreye: Maimouna Coulibaly Camara
1.15 pm *Yaya Coulibaly: Puppets & Marionettes Fashion Show N'goussoun: Bambara Balafon Music from Bélédougou  
2.00 pm Groupe Sogonikun: Wassoulou
Masked Dancers
Musical Storytellers Malian Health: Traditional Medicine and Karité Widjila:
Aissa Touré
2.45 pm Baba Larab: Takamba Music and Dance of the Sonraï People Neba Solo:
Balafon Music from Kénédougou
* Dogon Divination  
3.00 pm       Fourou fourou (millet cakes): Koumba Kanté
3.30 pm So Fing:
Somono Music
with Puppets
Tartit:
Tuareg Music and Sword Dance
Kora Player and Singer from Ensemble Instrumental  
4.00 pm    

Moni:
Khadiatou Sow
4.15 pm Groupe Sogonikun: Wassoulou
Masked Dancers
N'goussoun: Bambara Balafon Music from Bélédougou *Malian Pottery  
5.00 pm Dogon Masked Dance Group Donso N'goni: Hunters' Music Nomadic Culture Saladibulu na (sauce with salad leaves):
Ami Sow
 
Mali Evening Concerts for June 29, 2003
  No Evening Concerts tonight
 
June 29 Schedule Fèis Stage Ceilidh Stage Panto Stage Narrative Stage Scottish Kitchen Ongoing Demonstrations
             
11.00 am The Singing Kettle:
Scottish Music for Children
Shetland Dance Workshop Quines, Loons, and Other Folk:
Songs from North-East Scotland
Scots:
The Mither Tongue
Athole Brose (Margaret Bennet)
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.
11.30 am   The Occasionals: Scottish Ceilidh Dance Band *Panto!: Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater    
11.45 am       Gaelic Song & Poetry Salt Fish (Anne Sinclair)
12.00 pm Alasdair Fraser: Scottish Fiddle        
12.30 pm   Songs and Tunes about Food, Drink & Celebration New Scottish Songwriters: Fiona Ritchie of NPR's "Thistle & Shamrock" Interviews Brian McNeill North Sea Oil: Culture & Cultural Change in Aberdeenshire Dundee Cake (Joyce McRae)
1.00 pm Fiddlers' Bid: Music from Shetland        
1.15 pm       *Stories of Kings, Queens & Commoners Curry
(Anne Reid)
1.30 pm   Scottish Harp & Bagpipes The Singing Kettle:
Scottish Songs for Children
   
2.00 pm Johnny Cunningham: Virtuoso Scottish Fiddle The Occasionals: Scottish Ceilidh Dance   Scottish Heraldry:
Court of the
Lord Lyon
King of Arms
Whim Wham ( Sheena Wellington)
2.30 pm     Panto!: Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater Western Isles Storytellers: Crofting in the Outer Hebrides  
2.45 pm   Alasdair Fraser: Scottish Fiddle Traditions     Oven Scones
(Joyce MacRae)
3.00 pm Brian McNeill: Songs at Home & Abroad        
3.15 pm       Shetland's Viking Heritage: Celebrating Up Helly-A'  
3.30 pm     *Scottish Stories: The Wise & the Foolish   Lamb Curry (Anne Sinclair)
3.45 pm Scottish Women Sing Songs of Scottish Men (& Vise-Versa) Scottish Instrumental Music: Harp, Small Pipes & Others      
4.00 pm       The Art of Distilling Scotch Whisky  
4.15 pm         Queen Cakes (Joyce MacRae)
4.30 pm   Johnny Cunningham and Alasdair Fraser: Fiddle Workshop Panto!: Cinderella and Scotland's Traditional Holiday Theater    
4.45 pm Fiddlers' Bid: Music from Shetland     Scottish Tartan: Lore and Legend  
 
Scotland Evening Concerts for June 29, 2003
  No Evening Concerts tonight
 
Other Events
Family Activities John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts Millennium Stage
     
11.00 am Appalachian Songs & Stories  
11.45 am Scottish Toys & Games  
12.30 pm Appalachian Songs  
1.15 pm Jack Tales  
2.00 pm Doric Poetry & Song from North East Scotland  
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   No Concerts tonight
 
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