The latest issue of Smithsonian Folkways Magazine explores the extramusical sounds and soundscapes of the Smithsonian Folkways collection:

Cover Story: Tony Schwartz: Listening to the City – David Suisman
Sounding Off: Soundscapes: A Sound Commons for All Living Creatures – Jeff Todd Titon
Artist Spotlight: Henry Jacobs: Interview with the “Wizard of Oddsville”
Archive Spotlight: ‘Sounds of a Tropical Rain Forest in America’: When It Rains It Pours – Craig Eley

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Classic Celtic Music from Smithsonian Folkways, the 20th album in the popular Classic Series, is now available in CD and digital download format. Compiled by music historian and folklorist Richard Carlin, Classic Celtic Music delves into this diverse world of musical traditions and is sure to delight both longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Subscriber Discount: Enter code SFWCELTIC and save 20% off retail price on this CD or album download through March 31.

iTunes Discount: download any Classic Series album from iTunes for just $7.99 through March 25.

Delicious Peace: Coffee, Music & Interfaith Harmony in Uganda (pre-order here, available 4/9 everywhere) 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, multilingual songs that teach cooperation through music.

Listen to a sneak preview of Delicious Peace: Coffee, Music & Interfaith Harmony in Uganda

Pre-order Delicious Peace CD or album download

Hear how the events of 9/11 inspired J. J. Keki to start Delicious Peace.

Two Smithsonian Folkways albums won at the 55th GRAMMY Award presentation on Sunday, February 10. Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, an in-depth commemorative collection on one of American’s most treasured 20th-century icons, won for best Boxed or Limited Edition Package. East L.A. group Quetzal won for best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album with Imaginaries, part of the Smithsonian Folkways Tradiciones/Traditions series of Latin music. Read more.

Each month we’ll ask a trivia question; e-mail your answer, name, and address with the subject "March Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways@si.edu by March 17, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!

March 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)? Hint – hear Willie Clancy play this instrument on “Trip O’er the Mountain” on Classic Celtic Music.

Congratulations to last month's winner, Norman Leer from Madison, WI, who correctly answered “Cab Calloway” to the 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?”

• Celebrate Women's History Month with the “Women and Folk” playlist from Smithsonian Folkways.
• Listen to the new playlist "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?", based on the popular video game which featured international music from Smithsonian Folkways.
• Hear Associate Director D.A. Sonneborn describe the integration of Russian recordings into the Smithsonian Folkways collection on “The Voice of Russia: American Edition.”
• Read Max Baca’s “endlessly interesting stories from his lifetime of traveling and performing around the world with Los Texmaniacs” in this recent interview with Hearth Music.