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5:12

Jim Nollman - “The Three Jimmies” (Official Visualizer)

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Jim Nollman - "The 47 Whale Raga" (Official Audio)

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Ella Jenkins Live! at the Smithsonian (1991)

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Marisol "La Marisoul" Hernández Discusses Her Upbringing on Olvera Street

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Joy Harjo feat. esperanza spalding - "My Guy" (Official Visualizer)

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Kronos Quartet - "God Shall Wipe All Tears Away" [Official Audio]

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Joy Harjo - "Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace" [Official Audio]

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Kronos Quartet - "Peace Be Till: IV. Symphony of Social Justice" [Official Audio]

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Little Folkies - "Swim Swimmy Swim" (Official Visualizer)

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Little Folkies - "Two Little Birds Came Flying" (Official Visualizer)

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Little Folkies - "Walk Along, John" (Official Visualizer)

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Kronos Quartet - "Glorious Mahalia: IV. Sometime I feel like a motherless child" [Official Audio]

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Leonel Mendoza of Los Originarios del Plan Speaks of His Life, Culture, and Music

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Los Originarios del Plan - "Mi tierra linda (My Beloved Land)" (Official Audio)

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Clifton Chenier - "Ay, Ai, Ai" (Official Audio)

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Clifton Chenier - "My Mama Told Me (Live)" (Official Audio)

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Clifton Chenier - "Party Down (At the Blue Angel Club) (Live)"

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Clifton Chenier - "Calinda (Live from Austin City Limits)" (Official Audio)

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Clifton Chenier - "Je Suis En Racolteur (I'm a Farmer)" (Official Audio)

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Clifton Chenier - "Someone Told Me It Was All Over" (Official Audio)

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Clifton Chenier - "Cher Catin" (Official Audio)

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Clifton Chenier - "Baby What You Want Me to Do (Live)" (Official Audio)

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Meklit - "Lefeqer Enegeza" (Official Audio)

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John Santos: Art of the Descarga

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Meklit - "Abebayehosh" (Official Audio)

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Meklit feat. Brandee Younger - "Tizita" (Official Music Video)

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Julian Kytasty - "Про Правду (Song of Truth)" (Official Audio)

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Clifton Chenier - "Mr. Charlie" (Official Audio)

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The Seldom Scene - "Man at the Crossroads" (Official Audio)

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Sons of Membertou - "Kepmite'tmnej (Mi'kmaq Honour song)" (Live at the 2025 ICTMD Conference)

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The Seldom Scene - "Farewell, Angelina" (Official Audio)

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Sons of Membertou - "Kepmite'tmnej (Mi'kmaq Honour song)" (Official Audio)

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The Seldom Scene - "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains" (Official Audio)

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Jerron Paxton - Full Performance (Live at the 2023 Brooklyn Folk Festival)

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Little Joe's Legacy: Little Joe Hernández Interviewed by Max Baca

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The Po' Ramblin' Boys - "Trying to Live the Dream" (Live Performance Video)

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Jerron Paxton - "Oxtail Blues" (Official Audio)

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Dan + Claudia Zanes feat. Jendog Lonewolf - "Fly Like A Raven" (Official Music Video)

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Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin - "Live Humble" (Official Audio)

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Jerron Paxton - "Things Done Changed" (Official Audio)

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Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin - "Old Indian Hymn" (Official Audio)

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Jerron Paxton - "What's Gonna Become of Me" (Official Audio)

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The Po' Ramblin' Boys - "Lonely Pine" (Live Performance Video)

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Dan + Claudia Zanes - "Little Pal of Mine" (Official Audio)

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Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin feat. Joe Rainey - "My Way's Cloudy" (Official Music Video)

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Dan + Claudia Zanes - "Guide My Feet (For Ella Jenkins)" (Official Audio)

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The Po' Ramblin' Boys - "Trying to Live the Dream" (Official Audio)

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Anna & Elizabeth - "Jeano" (Short Film)

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Dan + Claudia Zanes feat. Jendog Lonewolf - "Fly Like A Raven" (Official Audio)

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Mr. Greg - "I Like Animals" (Official Audio Visualizer)

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Mr. Greg feat. the Chapin Sisters - "Sweet Ella Jenkins"

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Charlie Parr - Full Performance (Live at the 2023 Brooklyn Folk Festival)

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The Po' Ramblin' Boys - "Wanderers Like Me" (Official Audio)

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Sonya Cohen Cramer - "No Place to Fall" (Townes Van Zandt cover) [Official Music Video]

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The Po' Ramblin' Boys - "Lonely Pine" (Official Audio)

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The Making of Ann Savoy's 'Another Heart' (Behind the Scenes Documentary)

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Georgia Sea Island Singers led by John Davis - "Read 'Em John" [Sampler]

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Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones -"Buzzard Lope (Dance) - In That Old Field" [Sampler]

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Ed Young & Emma Lee Ramsey - "Chevrolet" [Sampler]

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Mable Hillery with Emma Lee Ramsey - "Marching on the Mississippi Line" [Sampler]

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