BGuthrie Photos: Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2017) -- Opening Ceremony

Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2017) -- Opening Ceremony:

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Description of Pictures: Help us ring in the opening of the Festival's 50th anniversary! Visitors will get the first glimpse of Circus Arts and On the Move, with short performances by aerialist Dolly Jacobs, UniverSoul Circus, Circus Juventas, taiko players PJ and Roy Hirabayashi, and conjunto band Los Texmaniacs.
We'll also hear remarks from staff the Smithsonian and the National Park Service, including Secretary David Skorton, longtime Festival director Richard Kurin, and Festival co-founder Jim Morris.
The ceremony ends with a circus parade through the rest of the Festival grounds.
Run of Show:
* Procession: UniverSoul
* (Remarks) (Emcee) Michael Atwood Mason, Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
* (Remarks) Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton
* (Remarks) National Park Service Superintendent Gay Vietzke
* (Performance) Circus Juventas Youth and Coaches
* (Remarks) Preston Scott, Circus Arts curator
* (Remarks) Istvan Ujhelyi, European Parliamentarian
* (Performance) Dolly Jacobs (Aerialist -- NEA Heritage Fellow)
* (Remarks) Deborah Walk, curator, Ringling Circus Museum
* (Performance) P.J. and Roy Hirabayashi (Taiko -- NEA Heritage Fellows)
* (Remarks) Sojin Kim, On the Move curator
* (Performance) Christylez Bacon, Progressive Hip-Hop Artist
* (Performance) Los Texmaniacs (Conjunto -- NEA Heritage Fellows)
* Fifty Years of Festival Video Presentation
* (Remarks) Richard Kurin, Acting Provost/Under Secretary for Museums and Research
* (Remarks) Jim Morris, co-founder, Smithsonian Folklife Festival
* (Remarks) Kurin presents gift to Morris
* (Remarks) Sabrina Lynn Motley, Director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
* (Remarks) Motley calls to stage Skorton, Kurin, Mason, Vietkze, McCollum, Morris and selected performers ceremonially open the festival
* Recessional

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FOLKO1_170629_062.JPG: Preston Scott, Circus Arts curator, being interviewed
2. FOLKO1_170629_067.JPG: Los Texmaniacs (Conjunto -- NEA Heritage Fellows)
3. FOLKO1_170629_150.JPG: David Skorton
4. FOLKO2_170629_008.JPG: Procession: UniverSoul
5. FOLKO3_170629_005.JPG: (Remarks) (Emcee) Michael Atwood Mason, Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
6. FOLKO3_170629_137.JPG: David Skorton, ???, István Ujhelyi
7. FOLKO3_170629_187.JPG: National Park Service Superintendent Gay Vietzke
8. FOLKO3_170629_226.JPG: David Skorton
9. FOLKO4_170629_010.JPG: National Park Service Superintendent Gay Vietzke
10. FOLKO4_170629_161.JPG: (Performance) Circus Juventas Youth and Coaches
11. FOLKO5_170629_001.JPG: (Remarks) Preston Scott, Circus Arts curator
12. FOLKO5_170629_073.JPG: (Remarks) Istvan Ujhelyi, European Parliamentarian
13. FOLKO5_170629_227.JPG: (Performance) Dolly Jacobs (Aerialist -- NEA Heritage Fellow)
14. FOLKO6_170629_060.JPG: (Remarks) Deborah Walk, curator, Ringling Circus Museum
15. FOLKO6_170629_160.JPG: (Performance) P.J. and Roy Hirabayashi (Taiko -- NEA Heritage Fellows)
16. FOLKO6_170629_372.JPG: (Remarks) Sojin Kim, On the Move curator
17. FOLKO6_170629_428.JPG: (Performance) Christylez Bacon, Progressive Hip-Hop Artist
18. FOLKO6_170629_502.JPG: (Performance) Los Texmaniacs (Conjunto -- NEA Heritage Fellows)
19. FOLKO7_170629_019.JPG: (Remarks) Richard Kurin, Acting Provost/Under Secretary for Museums and Research
20. FOLKO7_170629_279.JPG: (Remarks) Jim Morris, co-founder, Smithsonian Folklife Festival
21. FOLKO7_170629_423.JPG: Richard Kurin readies a presentation certificate for Jim Morris
22. FOLKO7_170629_460.JPG: Certificate presentation
23. FOLKO8_170629_001.JPG: (Remarks) Sabrina Lynn Motley, Director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
24. FOLKO8_170629_237.JPG: Deborah Walk
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