Delicious Peace: Coffee, Music & Interfaith Harmony in Uganda aims to overcome religious conflict and bring peace through song. Written and performed by coffee farmers of the Peace Kawomera (Delicious Peace) Fair Trade cooperative in Mbale, Uganda, the album features uplifting, multi-lingual songs that teach cooperation through music.

Subscriber Discount: Enter code SFWDELICIOUS and save 20% off retail price on this CD or album download through April 30.

Royalties from the sale of this recording support education for the children of the Peace Kawomera coffee cooperative.

Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways (out 5/21) chronicles an instrument essential to the blues. By manipulating the harmonica in ways never originally intended, blues players create an expressiveness similar to that of the guitar, the other instrument central to the blues form.

Listen to selections from Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

The Smithsonian Folkways network of music educators has published more than eighty lesson plans for grades K—12, all available for free download at folkways.si.edu and the Tools for Teaching Pinterest Board. Teach music from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and everything in between!

Each month we’ll ask a trivia question; e-mail your answer, name, and address with the subject "April Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways@si.edu by April 20, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!

April Question: The songs on Delicious Peace are used to educate Ugandan farmers about coffee cultivation techniques and the benefits of interfaith cooperation. True or False: Delicious Peace coffee beans, like most coffee worldwide, are picked by hand one at a time?

Congratulations to last month's winner, Mark Strauch from Columbia, MD, who correctly answered “uilleann pipes” to the question: “What reedpipe aerophones, known as the national pipes of Ireland, are played with bellows inflated by the elbow rather than the mouth (like the Scottish Highland bagpipes)?”

• The Library of Congress has included Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960-1962 in the most recent additions to the National Recording Registry.
• Eleven Smithsonian Folkways projects are finalists in 18 categories for the 12th Independent Music Awards. Click here for details and to cast your vote!