Sunday, December 2, 2012, would have been the 107th birthday of Folkways Records founder Moses “Moe” Asch, who released 2,168 albums on the label (an average of one per week!).

Get a quick glimpse into Moe’s philosophy by watching the trailer for Worlds of Sound: The Ballad of Folkways.

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Thanks for making this another GREAT year for Smithsonian Folkways. Purchases of recordings and merchandise support our nonprofit mission. See below for our 2012 gift guide!

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2012 Gift Guide
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	Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection Woody Guthrie		Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology Various Artists
	Blue Clouds Elizabeth Mitchell		Imaginaries Quetzal
	Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds Los Texmaniacs		The Complete Bowdoin College Concert, 1960 Pete Seeger
	Music of Central Asia Vol.10: Borderlands: Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route		Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger T-Shirt

Watch the wonderful new video for Elizabeth Mitchell’s updated version of the traditional song “Froggie Went a-Courtin” from Blue Clouds. Elizabeth Mitchell’s concerts on Saturday, December 8, in Portland, Maine, will be webcast live at 11 AM and 2 PM EST. The webcasts are $3, with most of the proceeds going directly to the performer and the venue.

All Upcoming Concerts:

• Saturday, December 8, 2012: One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine
• Sunday, December 9, 2012: RISD Auditorium, Providence, Rhode Island
• Saturday, December 15, 2012: Symphony Space, New York City

Each month we’ll ask a trivia question; e-mail your answer, name, and address with the subject "December Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways@si.edu by December 15, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!

December Question: Folkways Records founder Moses Asch was inspired as a young man to create an “encyclopedia of sound” after meeting which physicist?

Congratulations to last month's winner, Kit from Boulder, Colorado, who correctly answered “Jimi Hendrix” to the question: “On Blue Clouds, Elizabeth Mitchell’s version of the Allman Brothers’ ‘Blue Sky’ begins with a quote of Duane Allman’s instrumental song ‘Little Martha’ as a tribute to the late guitarist. It’s rumored that Allman wrote the song upon waking from a dream in which what other legendary musician showed him how to play it using a sink faucet?”

• Sneak Peak: On January 29, Smithsonian Folkways will release Get Moving with Ella Jenkins, the 33rd album by the “First Lady of Children’s Music.”
• GRAMMY-winning conjunto musicians Flaco Jimenez and Max Baca of Los Texmaniacs will release an album of duets on Smithsonian Folkways in 2013 (specific release date tbd). Watch this NPR Tiny Desk Concert featuring the duo.
• Jim Nollman was recently featured on NPR and in The Atlantic for his 1982 album Playing Music with Animals: The Interspecies Communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves, and 20 Orca Whales.