Smithsonian Label to Sell Folk Catalog as Downloads
Mon January 26, 2004 01:32 PM ET
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Billboard) - Nonprofit label Smithsonian Folkways
Recordings is making its entire collection of 33,000 folk and world music
songs available as downloads for 99 cents apiece. The service will debut
April 1 on the label's own site,
http://www.folkways.si.edu, and later this
spring on the Smithsonian's
http://www.globalsound.org site.
The Folkways catalog was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C., after the death of label founder Moe Asch in 1986. The
recordings, which date back to 1948, include material by Woody Guthrie,
Leadbelly, Brownie McGhee and Pete Seeger.
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