Visit Smithsonian Folkways with this private tour for 10 plus receive Folkways CDs and poster.

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian.  The Folklife collections for the Smithsonian. Among their collections are the Folkways Records and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings collections.They also have much more than that including audio, video and photographic materials from the 40+ years of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. It includes the original glass recordings of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Lead Belly. Also the tapes of Lead Belly's Last Sessions, Doc Watson's first recordings. There are walls of reel to reel tapes, albums, album artwork and posters. Also studios for record production and digitization.  Tour the office next door of Smithsonian Folkways and see the robotic system they use to run off CDs for the public.