Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. June 2009 Newsletter Dear Supporter, Smithsonian Folkways Celebrates the 2009 Smithsonian Folklife Festival with Four New Releases The 43rd Smithsonian Folklife Festival presents three exciting programs - Giving Voice, Las Américas, and Wales - from June 24th through June 28th and July 1 through July 5th on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The annual Marketplace once again offers more Smithsonian Folkways CDs than anywhere else. Read on for information on four new releases, special concerts, Festival webcasts, the summer edition of Folkways Magazine, and a special discount for subscribers. Folkways Magazine - Summer 2009 Explore the second edition of Folkways Magazine, which examines the expanding universe of Música Latina, profiles new Smithsonian Folkways artist Los Texmaniacs, re-discovers an album of Welsh music from 1954, and much more. Save 15% during Smithsonian Folklife Festival Can't make it to the Festival Marketplace? Just enter code SFWFESTIVAL09 and save 15% off retail price on your next order through Sunday, July 5th. Discount applies to both CDs and digital downloads. 2009 Folklife Festival Programs Giving Voice: The Power of Words in African American Culture New Release: A Voice Ringing O'er the Gale! The Oratory of Frederick Douglass Read by Ossie Davis. Click for free download. 2009 Ralph Rinzler Memorial Concert featuring GRAMMY-winner Ella Jenkins, Saturday, June 27th, on the National Mall. Las Américas: Un Mundo Musical - Music in Latino Culture New Release: Borders y Bailes from Festival favorites Los Texmaniacs. Click to watch video. New Release: ¡Y Que Viva Venezuela! from the Maestros del Joropo Oriental. Click to hear samples. See Los Texmaniacs, Maestros del Joropo Oriental, and fifteen other groups, many of whom are featured on the Smithsonian Folkways Tradiciones/Traditions series, live at the Festival. Wales Smithsonian Cymru New Release: Blodeugerdd - Song of the Flowers: An Anthology of Welsh Music and Song. Click to hear samples. Come to the CD Release and Welsh Dance Party on Friday, June 26th, on the National Mall. Watch Daily Smithsonian Folklife Festival Webcasts Can't make it to the Folklife Festival this year? You don't have to miss the amazing performances. Watch selected daily performances at www.festival.si.edu/2009/webcast.aspx. Smithsonian Folkways Trivia! Each month we'll ask a trivia question; email your answer, name, and address with the subject "June Trivia" to smithsonianfolkways@si.edu by July 5th and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice! June Question: Which award-winning poet, currently poet-in-residence at Temple University, recorded an album of poetry for Folkways in 1971. Hint: She is a participant in the Giving Voice program at the Folklife Festival. Congratulations to last month's winner, Michelle from Maine, who correctly answered "Unlike other stringed instruments, the strings on a harp run perpendicular to the soundboard or sound hole." May's question was: What characteristic defines the harp, as heard on five albums (from four countries) in the Tradiciones/Traditions series, as a distinct type of musical instrument? Essential Picks Heroes and Horses: Corridos from the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands Various Artists Sí, soy llanero: Joropo Music from the Orinoco Plains of Colombia Grupo Cimarrón Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima Viento De Agua Welsh Folk Songs Meredydd Evans A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry Sonia Sanchez Come Dance By the Ocean Ella Jenkins News and Notes Smithsonian Folkways artists Los Texmaniacs (June 26th), Arpex (June 27th), Viento de Agua (June 28th), and other Smithsonian Folklife Festival participants will be performing at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage every day at 6 p.m. for free during the Festival. Radio Bilingüe, a community-based radio network with 125 affiliate stations, will feature broadcast performances and podcasts from the Las Américas program at the 2009 Folklife Festival. Smithsonian Folkways is a nonprofit endeavor, and CD and digital download purchases sustain both the mission and the music. Liner notes are available as free downloads. Thank you for your support. If you would like to unsubscribe from future newsletters from Smithsonian Folkways, please click here to send us an unsubscribe email request, or send an email to listserv@si-listserv.si.edu with SIGNOFF FOLKWAYS as the subject and body. You can also send an email with the subject "UNSUBSCRIBE" to smithsonianfolkways@si.edu and include all of your email addresses in case you are using an email forwarding service. If you are having trouble viewing this email, please click here to open this in your web browser. This email was sent by Smithsonian Folkways Email us at smithsonianfolkways@si.edu Web site: http://www.folkways.si.edu 600 Maryland Ave, SW, Suite 2001 Washington, DC 20024