Korrontzi and TmbaTa
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 5: Special Events / 5.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0710_Ralph_Rinzler_Concert_Stage_0001
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Korrontzi and TmbaTa Celebrate the end of the 2016 Festival with a cross-program concert of artists from Basque: Innovation by Culture and Sounds of California. The eight-piece Korrontzi folk band is led by Agus Bandadiaran, who plays the trikitixa (Basque accordion). Through its performances, the band seeks to elevate Basque traditional music and dance, adding modern instruments and rhythms to make it accessible to a larger public. Representing California is Low Leaf, a singer, songwriter, musician, and producer from Los Angeles. She melds traditional instruments, like harp and piano, with electronics and inspiration from her Filipino heritage to create a freeform approach to music that is all her own.Rounding out the evening is the Armenian youth orchestra TmbaTa, who come from Yerevan to accompany Los Angeles group Armenian Public Radio and to spread awareness about the Smithsonian project My Armenia. They perform original compositions based on traditional Armenian folk songs combined with rock and experimental music.