2024 Folklife Festival: Indigenous Voices of the Americas

The 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival's "Indigenous Voices of the Americas: Celebrating the National Museum of the American Indian" will highlight living traditions of Indigenous peoples. The program will honor contemporary and traditional creative expressions, celebrations and community connections that feed new possibilities for people’s shared future.

The festival will take place Wednesday, June 26, to Monday, July 1, on the National Mall between Third and Seventh streets. All events are free, and the festival will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On select evenings, concerts will begin at 6 p.m. The festival is co-presented by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Park Service.

At the Festival on the National Mall, Indigenous artists and makers, professional chefs and home cooks, musicians, dancers, athletes, and storytellers will demonstrate the depth of multigenerational traditions as well as new, innovative approaches to cultural expression.

Join a circle of celebration with stories, songs, and dance. Experience ancestral foods like the Three Sisters (beans, corn, and squash) and inventive, sustainable cuisine. Learn stories that underlie Indigenous sports and games. Hear how Indigenous youth are reclaiming their languages through spoken-word and hip-hop. Explore traditional arts that flourish in their connections to place and environmental knowledge.