Banjo making, screen painting, and decoy carving are folk traditions rooted in Maryland. These, along with global traditions such as Chinese calligraphy, will be celebrated at the Fourth Annual Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival.
Director of Maryland Traditions, Cliff Murphy, calls Folklife the “stuff of oral tradition” and goes on to say that extraordinary culture and art is to be found throughout Maryland, which has a dynamic and distinct culture found in its music, food, arts, and crafts.
The festival, scheduled for June 14th, is suitable for the entire family and is free of charge. It features artists, performers, and food vendors from across Maryland, as well as providing workshops for both adults and children. Among the performers are musicians Samba Mapangala and Orchestra Virunga, who play Congolese rumba, as well as the Trinidad & Tobago Baltimore Steel Orchestra.
Rich Smoker will demonstrate his mastery of carving duck decoys, while Pete Ross and Kevin Enoch give workshops in making banjos. Demonstrations of traditional crafts will include blacksmithing, provided by master blacksmiths Peter Krug and Wally Yater, and Chinese calligraphy done by John Shun-Wang.
No such festival is complete without great food, and this one is no exception. Vendors will include organic ice cream from the Prigel Family Creamery in Long Green Valley, and Montgomery County's Blessed Coffee, which will provide an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony.
Festival organizers could work with a flyer printing company to create handouts for attendees, providing maps to the various events.
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