BillD is referring to the Saturday night concert, which was videotaped and recorded and was totally different (sponsored by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington) than the events at the Library of Congress that took place on Thursday and Friday, and which were sponsored by the American Folklife Center. I'm sure, since the Folklife Center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, that documentary recordings were made of all the LC sessions. Being our national folk archive, materials are always available to researchers. (Ask Art Thieme, who used the Archive's collections frequently when we saw him more often in D.C.) Guest: None of those events were by invitation. Sign up for the American Folklife Center's e-mail list and you'll know about the next big thing--a series of events on Northern Ireland that will include a concert by the McPeake Family. The Folklife Center also has a quarterly (free) newsletter you can sign up for.
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