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Music Video Sampler

A selection of music-related videos from across the Smithsonian.

Visit Ask Smithsonian Music for video stories from our experts on music and our related collections.

Collection Spotlight: 
  • Alidé Sans: “Eth Riu (Henerècla)”
  • Wu Man and Friends: Chinese Tradition and Musical Collaboration
  • Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys perform "Little Birdie"
  • Progressive Hip-Hop with Christylez Bacon
  • George Clinton: Give Up the Funk
  • Dong-wan Kim demonstrates the Korean changgo
  • Smithsonian Folkways Latino Music Concerts
  • Eszter Bíró performing klezmer music
  • Hasan Gure performs a Somali Freedom Song
  • Freedom Singers perform "We Are Soldiers in the Army"
  • The BeauSoleil Quartet: Cajun Reel Medley
  • Rufus Thomas
  • Ebony Hillbillies
  • Music of the Maroons
  • Music of the African Diaspora
  • Sounds of Peace: Afghan Music in America
  • Christylez Freestyle
  • Grupo Cimarrón Performance at Festival
  • Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés – “Jo no canto per la vue”
  • Ulali perform "Mother"
  • Green Fields of America – “Sanctuary”
  • Zulal at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
  • Blues Singer and Pianist Marcia Ball Performs "Louella"
  • Grupo Cimarrón, Virtuosos of the Colombian Joropo Llanero Tradition

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