Ella Jenkins wears her title, “The First Lady of Children’s Music,” with tremendous energy. Now in her ninth decade, she continues to encourage young children to hop, skip, jump, clap, dance, and be active through song. Get Moving with Ella Jenkins showcases the absolute finest recordings incorporating movement and play by a true pioneer of children’s music. Drawn from many recordings created during her legendary career, these songs demonstrate Ella’s genius as both a music educator and children's entertainer. Get Moving with Ella Jenkins, her 33rd release on Smithsonian Folkways, is now available via CD or digital download.

Subscriber Discount: Enter code GETMOVING and save 20% off retail price on this CD or album download through February 10.

Roberto Martínez was a prominent musician, composer, and standard bearer of northern New Mexican–southern Coloradan musical traditions. He was the mainstay of the prominent New Mexican ensemble Los Reyes de Albuquerque, the founder of the record label Minority Owned Record Enterprises (M.O.R.E.), and the author of regionally prominent corridos (narrative ballads) that instilled cultural pride and supported the struggle for social justice. READ MORE

Few genres carry as rich and deep a history as Celtic music, which reflects the culture of the British Isles and Ireland as well as North American inheritors. Compiled by music historian and folklorist Richard Carlin, Classic Celtic Music (out 2/26) is sure to delight both longtime fans of the genre and newcomers alike.

Featuring Pete Seeger, Joe Glazer, The New Lost City Ramblers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton, "Super Sonic Inaugural Weekend" highlights a fascinating array of sounds relating to the American experience of the United States’ highest political office.

You can now listen to all the songs recently featured on our Facebook page and Twitter feed on the “Fortnight Frequencies” playlist, updated every two weeks on Spotify, Rdio, Mog,  and Rhapsody. Mississippi John Hurt, The New Lost City Ramblers,  Los Tres Reyes, and Frank Christian are among the latest additions.

The winners will be announced by The Recording Academy on February 10, 2013. Click here for the complete list of nominees.

February Question: Hi-De-Ho! Ella Jenkins cites which jazz singer and bandleader as her inspiration for using call-and-response in children’s music education?

E-mail your answer, name, and address with the subject "February Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways@si.edu by February 10. One randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!

Congratulations to last month's winner, Jessica from West Haven, Connecticut, who correctly answered “Albert Einstein” to the question: “Folkways Records founder Moses Asch was inspired as a young man to create an ‘encyclopedia of sound’ after meeting which physicist?” Get the full story in Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways

• Listen to the National Endowment for the Arts’ recent Art Works Podcast, “Pete Seeger Remembers Woody Guthrie.”
• Lead Belly’s “Good Morning Blues” is featured in the film and soundtrack Not Fade Away.
• Smithsonian Folkways remembers the following recently departed contributors to our mission:
  • Singer and pianist Fontella Bass (1940–2012)
  • Blues musician and Smithsonian Folklife Festival participant Eddie Burns (1928–2012)
  • Singer, songwriter, and Fast Folk artist Frank Christian (1952–2012)
  • Vietnamese songwriter Pham Duy (1921-2013), a.k.a "the musician of 1,000 songs."
  • Singer, songwriter, and Collector Records artist Jon Fromer (1946–2012)