Awards
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Congratulations to Smithsonian Folkways Grammy Winners
Congratulations to all of the 2020 GRAMMY award winners and nominees! Smithsonian Folkways artists and projects managed to take home two awards: Best Historical Album for Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian …
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Smithsonian Folkways Receives Four GRAMMY Nominations
Please join Smithsonian Folkways in congratulating our nominees for the 2020 GRAMMY® Awards! We’re extremely proud of these folks and honored to be working with them.
Our Native Daughters is …
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Dom Flemons and Los Texmaniacs nominated for 2019 Grammy Awards
Congratulations are in order to Dom Flemons and Los Texmaniacs, who have been recognized for their incredible work in folk and traditional music with 2019 Grammy Award nominations!
Dom Flemons’ …
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Phil Wiggins, awarded 2017 National Heritage Fellowship
We, at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, are thrilled at the news that our old friend and colleague, Phil Wiggins, has been awarded a 2017 …
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Ella Jenkins, 60 years with Folkways, is honored by the National Endowment for the Arts
As the First Lady of Children’s Music celebrates 60 years as a Folkways artist with her 40th release on the label, she receives a National Heritage Fellowship and is celebrated at the Old Town School …
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Smithsonian Folkways' Dr. Daniel Sheehy Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
On April 5, 2016, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of 175 Guggenheim Fellowships (including three joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 1 …
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Smithsonian Folkways receives four GRAMMY nominations
Four Smithsonian Folkways releases earned nominations for the 58th GRAMMY Awards! The winners will be announced by The Recording Academy on February 15, 2016. Click here for the complete list of …
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Classic African American Songsters Awarded 2015 Living Blues Award
Smithsonian Folkways album Classic African American Songsters was awarded a 2015 Living Blues Award for best Historical Post-War album! Living Blues is the first American blues publication, founded …
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Smithsonian Folkways Wins Five Independent Music Awards
For the seventh consecutive year, Smithsonian Folkways has earned multiple Independent Music Awards as selected by a panel of judges:
Best Bluegrass Album: The Seldom Scene, Long Time...Seldom …
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Smithsonian Folkways Director Daniel Sheehy, Artists Rahim AlHaj and Michael Alpert among 2015 NEA National Heritage Fellows
Smithsonian Folkways is proud to recognize the inclusion of Folkways curator and director Daniel Sheehy, and artists Rahim AlHaj and Michael Alpert in this year’s list of NEA National Heritage …