gious identity. The program provided great opportunities for 

 exchanges, and it provided these communities with an oppor- 

 tunity to meet and share stories after more than a century of 

 separation. 



The sacred and social music, traditional poetry, dance, food, 

 and crafts of Washington-area African-born immigrants were 

 presented as part of the "African Immigrant Folklife Study 

 Project." The Festival included two evening dance party/ 

 concerts and a photo panel exhibition entitled, "New Ties: 

 Portraits of African Immigrant Community Folklife," featur- 

 ing photographs by Roland Freeman, photographic advisor to 

 the project. These activities grew out of a year of fieldwork by 

 community scholars participating in the project and 

 illuminated the vibrant range of newly emerging African cul- 

 tures in the Washington area. 



And on the evening of July 2nd, a special tribute concert in 

 honor of former Festival director Ralph Rinzler was held at 

 the Festival to commemorate the first anniversary of his pass- 

 ing. Paying tribute to Ralph were Pete and Mike Seeger, Pied- 

 mont blues musicians John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, and 

 Black Appalachian singers Ed and Melissa Cabbell. The event 

 was very well attended and performers and audience shared a 

 deep appreciation for many of Ralph's accomplishments. For 

 those wishing to support the Festival of American Folklife, a 

 Friends of the Festival group was formed that is developing 

 memberships and benefits; the organization is now approach- 

 ing 600 members. 



Cultural education at the Center saw six groups of teachers 

 using the Festival of American Folklife as a living laboratory 

 for developing resources, education materials move into test- 

 ing and design phases, and new projects emerge from ongoing 

 programs. The teachers seminars included "Bringing Folklore 

 into the Classroom: A Multicultural Learning Experience," di- 

 rected by Center staff members with teachers from the Wash- 

 ington, D.C., area; and "Teaching and Learning with 

 Museums," directed by a member of the Smithsonian Office 

 of Elementary and Secondary Education staff, with teachers 

 and museum educators from ten cities in California. A semi- 

 nar for music educators was sponsored by the University of 

 Maryland; and another general seminar on folklore and folklife 

 was sponsored by the Northern Virginia Campus of the Univer- 

 sity of Virginia. In addition, two groups of teachers came from 

 New England to attend the "Cape Verdean Connection" pro- 

 gram — educators from Massachusetts and Connecticut will be de- 

 veloping educational materials about Cape Verde and Cape 

 Verdean Americans for their schools, and teachers from the Bos- 

 ton area will be working on multicultural educational materials. 



The educational materials on "Land in Native American 

 Cultures," "Borders and Identities," and "The Bahamas" will 

 be available for the 1996 school year. The Bahamas kit will be 

 distributed to all public schools in the Commonwealth and in- 

 cludes an extensive student/teacher guide on both the elemen- 

 tary and secondary levels, two videotapes, and two audiotapes. 

 The kit was developed by Center staff in cooperation with a 

 team of educators and advisors in The Bahamas. 



New projects include "Voices of Virginia," a teacher's guide 

 and a recording that follows the fourth grade social studies 

 curriculum and is being developed by teachers at Bailey's Ele- 

 mentary School for the Arts and Sciences in Fairfax County; 

 and the "Workers at the White House" materials which are 

 being developed by a team of Washington, D.C., teachers in 

 cooperation with Center staff and the Curator's office at the 

 White House. The videotape, which is now available by itself, 

 will be enhanced for classroom use by a teacher's guide, a 24- 

 page educational booklet, and a full-color poster of a cross-sec- 

 tion of the White House. These materials will be distributed 

 free of charge to every public school in Washington, D.C., in 

 the spring of 1996. 



The "Workers at the White House" exhibit continues to 

 travel and was at the Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, 

 Georgia, and the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California 

 during the year. The exhibit was also mounted at Shaed Ele- 

 mentary School in northeast Washington, D.C., where Hillary 

 Clinton addressed students and teachers, and several of the 

 workers were honored. 



Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings continues its work with 

 collaborations with international scholarship, museum exhibi- 

 tions, and artists' creativity. International collaborations in- 

 cluded the first two of a projected six volumes of music from 

 different "departments" of Peru produced at the Archivo de 

 Musica Tradicional Andina in Lima, with the suppott of the 

 Ford Foundation of Peru; the CD Musical Traditions of Portu- 

 gal, which was partly supported by the City of Lisbon and was 

 produced by the director of the only ethnomusicology pro- 

 gram in Portugal; a recording of the Kayapo-Xikrin of Mato 

 Gtosso, Btazil, annotated by two Brazilian anthropolgists; Sa- 

 cred Rhythms of Cuban Santeri'a. produced by the Director of 

 the Centro de Investigacion y Desarollo de la Musica Cubana 

 in Havana; and three more volumes of the series, Music of Indo- 

 nesia, produced with the Indonesian Society fot the Perform- 

 ing Arts, with the support of the Ford Foundation, Indonesia. 



Smithsonian/Folkways also collaborates with museums to 

 make sounds part of the museum experience. Two recordings 

 are the products of such collaborations: Heartbeat: Voices of 

 First Nations Women, produced with the Smithsonian's Na- 

 tional Museum of American History; and Rhythms of Rapture: 

 Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou, which complements the exhibi- 

 tion, "Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou" that opened at UCLA's 

 Fowler Museum of Cultural History. 



Some new recordings develop out of ethnomusicological re- 

 search. Those released this year include Dream Songs and Heal- 

 ing Sounds m the Rainforests of Malaysia, and Old Believers: Songs 

 of the Nekrasov Cossacks. Other recordings come directly from 

 the vaults of the Folkways collection, and from Smithson- 

 ian/Folkways artists themselves. Approximately 50,000 re- 

 cordings were distnbuted through educational and archival 

 fulfillment distributions. 



Smithsonian/Folkways also produces video projects. The 

 JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance oj 

 the Americas consists of six videotapes, featuring over 150 exam- 



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