1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection
By: sponsored by the American Folklife Center ; assisted by the National Council for the Traditional Arts
Contributors: Derderian, Leo, performer; Stover, Don, 1928-1996, performer; Borrell, Roberto, performer; Addy, Yacub, performer; Kubatá (Musical group); Estrellas del Son (Musical group); Blema Bii (Musical group); Sam Brothers Five; American Folklife Center; National Council for the Traditional Arts; Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Series: Neptune Plaza concert series
Published: 1980
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Hmong Americans; Dance music; Folk dance music; Zydeco music; Music; Laotian Americans; Folk music; Black Dance; Hmong (Asian people); Folk dancing; Cuban Americans; Popular music; Old-time music; Storytelling; Vietnamese Americans; Percussion music; English Folk songs; Bluegrass music; Armenian Americans
Other titles: Neptune Plaza Concert Series, 1980; American Folklife Center concert, 1980
Description: Documentation of the monthly 1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series, which  consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, videorecordings, and photographs of performances of Armenian music and dance, bluegrass and old-time music, zydeco music, Ghanaian music, Afro-Cuban music, and Southeast Asian music featuring Laotian, Vietnamese, and Hmong performers recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza, in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from May through October 1980, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the National Council for the Traditional Arts.
Notes: Photographs include negatives, black and white contact sheets, photographic prints, polaroid color prints, and color slides taken by John T. Gibbs and Carl Fleischhauer.

Two videocassettes, black and white (U-Matic) document the music and dance performance of Leo Sarkisian's Armenian group, with dancer Eleanor Carolglanian, in costume, who demonstrated three Armenian folk dances.

Collection is open for research; access restrictions for some materials may apply. Please contact the Folklife Reading Room before requesting materials:  folklife@loc.gov ; 202-707-5510.

1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

in English.

in English, Armenian, French Creole, French, Ga, Lao, Mon-Khmer, Spanish, Twi, Vietnamese.

Finding aid is available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.
Table of contents: title: May 8: Leo Sarkisian and group (Armenian music); title: June 12: Don Stover (Bluegrass and old-time music); title: July 10: Sam Brothers Five (Zydeco music); title: August 14: Yacub Addy and Blema Bii "Children of the Ancient" (Ghanaian drumming and song); title: September 11: Las Estrellas Del Son, Roberto Borrell and Kubatá (Afro-Cuban music); title: October 9: Music from Southeast Asia (Instrumental music, songs, sung poetry, and stories)