Cross Program: Women, Music, and Cultural Heritage
name: label: Collection Creator
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 4: Sounds of California / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 03
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0703_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_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: Nobuko Miyamoto Betserai; Cathy Petrissians; Begona Echeverria; Andria Bidart; Nancy Serizawa; Elaine Fukumoto; Sean Miura; George Abe (participants); Deborah Anne Wong (presenter) Basque and Japanese American women artists discuss their experiences, community stories, and the significance of music in sustaining cultural heritage and reinterpreting traditions.NOKA is a vocal trio composed of Begoña, Andrea, and Cathy Petrissans. Their music is rooted in Basque tradition, going back hundreds of years, their sound is also influenced by the Basque American culture of California.Nobuko Miyamoto, Elaine Fukumoto, and Nancy Sekizawa from the FandangObon project regularly perform as dancers and musicians for a range of stage and community events in Southern California, including for local Buddhist temples and the First AME Church in Los Angeles.