Photograph of dancers from the Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are paired off into two couples, each partner dancing across from one another with their hands at their side. They are all wearing modern-day clothing except one man who is wearing a kilt and knee-high socks. Behind them on a stage, a band is playing music while they dance.

Photograph of the drummer for The Cajun Playboys performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is playing a white drum set and wearing a white shirt, dark pants, and a straw cowboy hat with a patch of animal fur at the front. He is wearing tinted, black-rimmed glasses and is smiling at the camera. A guitarist from the band is visible in the background; he is wearing the same outfit.

Photograph of Jean Schnitz playing autoharp at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting in the foreground in front of two microphones, singing into one and playing into the other. She strums with one hand and presses chord buttons with the other. In the middle ground, a guitar is laying on stage and a man is sitting on a square hay bale. In the background, crowds of festival visitors are walking around.

Photograph of Le P'tit Blanc performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A group of musicians are seated onstage. In the right foreground, a man is standing at a microphone playing a recorder. Sitting to the left of him is an accordion player, then a violinist, then a man playing an instrument similar to a guitar but with a teardrop-shaped body. Finally to the left of him is a woman seated with a drum on the ground in front of her. Behind them, red and orange streamers decorate the back of the stage.

Photograph of two members of the Cajun playboys performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A violinist is on the right standing next to a microphone and wearing a flat cap, suspenders, and pin-stripe pants. He is smiling at the camera. Next to him on the left is a man wearing a washboard on his chest. Hanging on his ear is a spoon used to play the washboard.

Photograph of Beverly Houston performing with her band "Breezin'" onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is standing in the middle of the stage singing into a microphone. To the left of her are two guitar players. To the right, a man is playing a shaker and another man is standing behind a microphone. Three of the band members are wearing a "Breezin'" t-shirt. The two musicians on the right and Houston are wearing "Breezin'" baseball caps. A drum set and several amplifiers sit at the back of the stage. A large banner that says, "HICKORY" is hung across the back of the stage.

Photograph of the Crim Gospel Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Three singers and a guitar player are visible on stage. The singer in the foreground is a woman wearing a navy dress with white polka-dots. To the right of her a man wearing jeans and a white shirt is singing and pointing upwards with his arm extended. To the right of him is another male singer. Behind the singers, the man playing guitar is also singing along. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the stage.

Photograph of the Calvary Boys Gospel Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four men, all dressed alike in khaki pants, white shirts, and red ties, are performing onstage. All of them are holding microphones and singing except the second man from the right who is playing a red bass guitar and singing into a microphone held by a stand. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the stage.

Photograph of Le P'tit Blanc performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. The band is made up of six members all male except for a female percussionist. Starting from the left is a violinist, then the female percussionist, then a man playing a stringed instrument similar to a guitar, another violinist, an accordionist, and finally a man playing a recorder. Each member has their own microphone set up. Except for the woman who is wearing a skirt, they are all wearing white pants, white shirts and dark vests.

Photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Six women are lined up onstage behind microphones all wearing the same pink shirt and navy skirt except the woman on the very right who is wearing pink pants and a white shirt. This woman is holding a songbook and singing into a microphone. The woman to the left of her is also singing. The other women are not singing.

Photograph of a guitarist performing with Expresiones Argentinas at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a colorful knit hat, a green pancho, and khaki pants with colorful stripes down the sides. He is standing behind two microphones, one for his guitar and one for vocals. He is smiling and looking down at his guitar. In the right background, two other performers are visible.

Photograph of Chris Lay and Norma Wiemers, members of the United Fiddlers Association, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Lay is on the left playing fiddle and Wiemers is in the middle playing a guitar. Sitting on the right, another man is playing a guitar. Lay and Wiemers are looking at each other as they play. They are both wearing cowboy hats, white shirts, and dark pants. In the background some square hay bales and a barn door is visible.

Photograph of a female vocalist and a drummer performing with Expresiones Argentinas at the Texas Folklife Festival. The woman is on the left, wearing a long orange skirt, a long-sleeved white blouse, and a scarf around her head and neck, topped with a gray bowler hat. She is leaning toward a microphone. On the right, a man wearing Argentine clothing is playing a large drum that is strapped over his shoulder.

Photograph of the Norman Sisters performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four female singers are standing onstage holding microphones and looking at one another. The singer in the foreground is wearing a yellow blouse, yellow earrings, and a scarf around her waist. She is holding the microphone up to her mouth and has her eyes closed. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the area.

Photograph of Czech accordionist Joseph Kaspar at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is sitting with his red accordion in front of two microphones. He is an elderly man, wearing a brown fedora, white shirt with floral trim, and navy pants. He has blue eyes and is wearing glasses.

Photograph of the Norman Sisters performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Three female singers are standing onstage holding microphones and looking at one another. The woman on the left is wearing a pink dress. The woman in the middle is wearing a yellow blouse and navy blue skirt and the woman on the right is wearing a black dress with a red belt and red undershirt. Two guitarists are partially visible behind the singers.

Photograph of the Norman Sisters performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four female singers are standing onstage holding microphones and singing. The singer in the foreground is wearing a yellow blouse, yellow earrings, and a scarf around her waist. She is singing passionately with her eyes closed. A canopy of greenery is hanging over the stage.

Photograph of one of the Norman Sisters playing piano at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting on the left side of the photograph facing the piano which is in the center of the photograph. A man in a red shirt is on the right, playing a keyboard and looking at the camera.

Photograph of Ronnie Wolfe of the East Texas String Ensemble with two children at the Texas Folklife Festival. Wolfe is sitting on the right side of bench playing a mandolin. A young girl is on the left side of the bench sitting on top of a wooden paddle used to bounce a toy jumping jack. A young boy is standing to the left of her, holding two jumping jacks over the paddle. She is slapping the paddle to make the jumping jacks dance.