Smithsonian

Our Song of the Day is from the 2004 album “Back Roads to Cold Mountain”. Listen to Dacosta Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters performing John Brown’s Dream.

This year marks the 48th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival in the US and quite possibly the last to be held at the historic National Mall in Washington, D.C. due to new restrictions.

Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways brims with the creativity of soulful harmonica greats of the 20th century, including Sonny Terry, Doctor Ross, Eddie Burns, Phil Wiggins, and more.

Raised in a large, musical farm family in Rappahannock County, Virginia, John Jackson (1924–2002) was the most important black Appalachian musician to come to broad public attention during the mid-1960s.…