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April is the 10th anniversary of Jazz Appreciation Month, and Smithsonian Folkways is joining in the celebration with the Smithsonian Folkways Jazz Education Website.
The Smithsonian Folkways Jazz Education Website is a new online exhibition that serves as a perfect introduction to jazz music at home or in the classroom, featuring:
- Interactive music mixer
- Multi-media timeline of jazz history
- Interactive jazz map
- Jazz discussion board
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The Smithsonian Folkways Jazz Education Website coincides with JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology, the 6-CD, 111-track box set available now with special packages including a JAZZ
t-shirt and poster.
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Jazz Appreciation Month 2011 celebrates the women of jazz. Visit www.smithsonianjazz.org for events all month long.
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Two New Albums of Civil War Songs
April 2011 is the 150th anniversary of the start of the U.S. Civil War, and to mark the event Smithsonian Folkways presents two collections of Civil War songs:
Subscriber discount: Enter Code SFW150 and save 20% off retail price on these two CDs or Album Downloads through April 21st!
New Video for “Sunny Day” from Elizabeth Mitchell
Children’s musician Elizabeth Mitchell and her family recorded a lovely new video for the song “Sunny Day” from the recent Smithsonian Folkways album of the same name. It features a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. Watch it on folkways.si.edu or the Smithsonian Folkways YouTube Channel.
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Smithsonian Folkways Wins Four Independent Music Awards
Subscriber discount: Enter Code IMAWINNERS and save 20% off retail price on these CDs or Album Downloads through April 21st.
Smithsonian Folkways Trivia!
Each month we'll ask a trivia question; email your answer, name, and address with the subject "April Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways@si.edu by April 30, 2011, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!
April Question: Union Admiral David Farragut, subject of the ballad “Farragut’s Ball” from Civil War Naval Songs, shouted what famous order during the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay? (Hint—the phrase was re-used for the title of an acclaimed 1979 rock album.)
Congratulations to last month's winner, Irene from Vienna, Va, who correctly answered “Charlie Parker” to the question: Before becoming a jazz legend, this saxophonist first worked as a dishwasher at “Jimmie’s Chicken Shack” so that he could hear pianist Art Tatum perform.
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News and Notes
- We remember country singer/songwriter Harley Allen (1956—2011). Harley, son of bluegrass legend Red Allen, performed on five Smithsonian Folkways albums.
- We remember Freedom Singer Matt Jones (1936—2011), who appears on seven Smithsonian Folkways albums.
- Smithsonian Folkways now accepts PayPal for all purchases at folkways.si.edu.
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