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Alabama Gives Day Gathering
02/02/2012 - 4:00pm
02/02/2012 - 7:00pm

Walk away with something if you join the AFA.   The first 50 people to arrive and join at the indiviudal membership level or higher will receive a gift from Black Belt Treasurers.   Come bring an instrument and jam, enjoy libations, meet people, and get to know the AFA.  read more »

15th Annual Rotunda Singing
02/04/2012 - 9:30am
02/04/2012 - 3:00pm

Come and sing from all four oblong shape-note hymnals currently used in Alabama …

Saturday, February 4, 2012  9:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.  read more »

Tributaries Issue 13: Alabama's Food Traditions
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NEW RFP: Joyce H. Cauthen Fellowship Fund

 

AFA announces RFP to the Joyce H. Cauthen Fellowship Fund honoring Joyce Cauthen and supporting the research, documentation, and preservation of Alabama's folk traditions.

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Join AFA on Facebook

Become a Facebook friend of the Alabama Folklife Association.  read more »

Does anyone know how to play"Chickimee Craney Crow"?

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The Smithsonian’s New Harmonies Exhibit on Tour in Alabama
Alabama Roots Music Display accompanies Smithsonian Exhibit

Museum on Main Street is bringing a traveling Smithsonian Exhibition-- New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music--to Tuscumbia, Livingston, Chatom, Fort Payne, Troy and Tuskegee.  read more »

New Publication Looks at How Alabamians Speak
Tributaries, Volume 10

The way Alabamians speak is the subject of the latest issue of Tributaries, the journal of the Alabama Folklife Association.   read more »

AFA's Gathering in Camden and Gee's Bend was Unfogettable
Nancy Pettway and Annie Kennedy

The AFA’s Gathering in Camden and Gee’s Bend on November 15 was a true success.  read more »

Alabama Folklife Newsletter Fall 2008
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Gathering in Camden and Gee’s Bend
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Quilting in Gee's Bend

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Folklife Car Tags
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Purchase a “Support the Arts” car tag and help the AFA promote the knowledge and appreciation of Alabama folklife.  read more »

Alabama Community Scholars Program

 

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