{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP#89 National Folk Festival","description":"Meet some of the artists and musicians who will be at the National Folk Festival\u2014one of America\u2019s largest, most prestigious and longest-running celebrations of arts, culture, and heritage. A Great American Festival (celebrating it\u2019s 80th year) Comes to Maryland\u2019s Historic Eastern Shore. A free, large-scale three-day outdoor event, the National Folk Festival celebrates the roots, richness and variety of American culture. It features over 350 of the nation\u2019s finest traditional musicians, dancers, craftspeople and other keepers of culture in performances, workshops, and demonstrations. Our first guest Sylvia Stephens, is a fourth-generation quilter in a family of celebrated quilters. Her mother, Mozell Benson was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship for quilting in 2001, the nation\u2019s highest honor for traditional artists. Despite an interest from childhood in sewing, Sylvia was not inspired to take up quilting until her mother\u2019s recognition. Through Alabama\u2019s Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, Sylvia was able to learn from her mother while also documenting and preserving her quilting techniques. She has taught others through workshops across Alabama and her participation as a master artist in the Maryland Traditions Apprenticeship Program. Next Guest, Grupo Rebol\u00fa are the preeminent Afro-Colombian ensemble in the United States, playing the rich, rhythmic, and undeniably danceable music of Colombia\u2019s Caribbean coast. Founded by singer, composer, and gaitero Ronald Polo together with master percussionist Morris Ca\u00f1ate, the ensemble weaves indigenous and contemporary instruments into a vibrant expression of Afro-Colombian culture.  ","author_name":"No, I Know","author_url":"http:\/\/www.noiknowpodcast.com","html":"