Opening Ceremony [Low Level]
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Special Events / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017 June 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0629_Special_Events_Big_Top_0001
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Listening copies available
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content: Help us ring in the opening of the Festival's 50th anniversary! Visitors will get the first glimpse of Circus Arts and On the Move, with short performances by aerialist Dolly Jacobs, UniverSoul Circus, Circus Juventas, taiko players PJ and Roy Hirabayashi, and conjunto band Los Texmaniacs. We'll also hear remarks from staff the Smithsonian and the National Park Service, including Secretary David Skorton, longtime Festival director Richard Kurin, and Festival co-founder Jim Morris.The ceremony ends with a circus parade through the rest of the Festival grounds.