Aukeran Dance Workshop
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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 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 01
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0701_Basque_Musika_eta_Dantza_Etxea_0002
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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: Melany Munoz (presenter); David Romtvedt; Caitlin Belem David Romtvedt and Caitlin Belem are a father-daughter duo from Northern Wyoming. Romtvedt performs Basque traditional and contemporary music using the trikitixa (accordion) and three-row diatonic accordions. He is a founder and current board member of Worlds of Music. Multitalented, Romtvedt is also an award-winning author and the former Wyoming Poet Laureate. His daughter, Caitlin Belem, is a tremendous talent in her own right. She is a Basque American musician who plays Brazilian and Latin music with the band Maracuja. She began to play fiddle at a young age and toured with her father and mother in their band The Fireants. She also was a part of Ensemble Hilka which released an album called Chornobyl Songs Project through Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2015.