Highlights from the Festival of American Folklife in the Soviet Union, May 1990

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Highlights from the Festival of American Folklife in the Soviet Union, May 1990

In May 1990, American musicians and staff from the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage traveled to Ukraine to participate in the second International Folklore Festival. Performers included Alison Krauss and Union Station, Tejano legend Santiago “Jimmy” Jimenez Jr. and Jessie Castillo, Philadelphia tap dancer LaVaughn Robinson, New Orleans’s Young Tuxedo Brass Band, and a group of Native Hawaiian hula dancers and chanters from Halau ‘O Kekuhi. Learn more about the trip in Folklife Magazine: https://s.si.edu/3sPYBAJ FP-1988-VTR-0184, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives © Smithsonian Institution, 1990

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