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 …

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’ …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …