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The Western Folklife Center's media productions brings you the voices, faces and places of the rural West. Through features for National Public Radio, documentary video, CDs, stories on our blog, and an upcoming podcast, we tell the stories of people and communities that are overlooked by mainstream media. We believe that America's cultural map should not be charted only by search engines, that the most powerful stories often lie tucked away in out of the way places, and that the beauty and innovation found in rural America hold lessons for the rest of us.Share this article with others



Fiddlers' Pilgrimage: The Weiser Legacy


Banner for the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest
Fiddlers' Pilgrimage: The Weiser Legacy explores the reasons that oldtime fiddling is thriving in our time, and why Weiser, Idaho, is the western mecca for this traditional art form. Western Folklife Center producers attended the 60th National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest and Festival and joined players and their devoted fans for this defining cultural event which each June transforms this tiny community of farmers and ranchers. Listen to the Fiddlers' Pilgrimage Radio Special:

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A Prayerful Song of Thanks

Kristina Olsen, photo courtesy of the artist Songwriter and troubadour Kristina Olsen says she was seeking perspective when she wrote her song Prayer Flags, our latest What's in a Song.

What's In a Song
12/29/2012 NPR Weekend Edition Saturday

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The Great Salt Lick

Sculptures entered in the Great Salt Lick Contest await judging and auctionDeep West Radio Documentaries
12/22/12 NPRs Weekend Edition Saturday

“We don’t pay our artists, we eat them!”  So declares Whit Deschner, creator of the Great Salt Lick Contest. The artists he’s referring to are animals…cows, elk, deer, goats and others…who create their art by licking salt blocks left for them in fields and pastures.

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