Welcome Ceremony
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2024 June 26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2024, Item SFF2024_0626_IVA_Rasmuson_0001
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copy available
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content: Halena Kapuni-Reynolds (Native Hawaiian); Sabrina Lynn Motley (Director - Smithsonian Folklife Festival); Cynthia Chavez Lamar (Pueblo, Director - National Museum of the American Indian); Kevin Gover (Smithsonian Under Secretary for Museums and Culture); Lonnie G. Bunch III (Secretary of the Smithsonian); Deb Haaland (Pueblo, United States Secretary of the Interior); Sara Curruchich (vocals, guitar, Kaqchikel Maya); Clifford Murphy (Director - Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage); Chuck Sams (Director - National Park Service); Sons of Membertou: Graham Marshall (Membertou Mi'kmaw†Nation/Kuntewiktuk); Austin Christmas (Membertou Mi'kmaw†Nation/Kuntewiktuk) Join representatives from the Smithsonian, the National Park Service, and the  Indigenous Voices of the Americas  program in officially opening the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. This event will be livestreamed at https://www.si.edu/festival.