Photograph of the Lijuaco Bayanihan Dance Ensemble, from Laredo, Texas, performing the tinikling dance with audience members at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Some dancers are on the ground, tapping bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers and audience members who step over and in between the poles in a dance. The stage is filled with people. The female dancers are wearing brightly colored plaid dresses and the men are wearing white shirts and red pants with red bandannas around their necks.

Photograph of Ballet Folklorico dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The women are wearing long colorful dresses which they are twirling around onstage, in front of long orange and red banners that are hanging at the back of the stage. The one male dancer is wearing a white charro suit with a sombrero.

Photograph of Pauline Mery performing a Lebanese folk dance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a copper-colored belly dancing outfit and is dancing with her hands raised in the air. She has short brown hair and is smiling.

Photograph of a Spanish flamenco dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is wearing a fluffy orange and yellow skirt with a white petticoat and a black and yellow long-sleeved shirt. She is holding up her arms and playing castanets as she dances.

Photograph of the Lebanese Folk Dancers from San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Three women wearing long red and green dresses are dancing with tambourines onstage in front of a large Lebanese flag.

Photograph of Middle Eastern dancers from San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Three women are wearing belly dancing outfits: blue tops with loose rainbow striped pants. They are dancing onstage in front of a large Lebanese flag.

Photograph of people petting a sheep in the sheep exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Some people are sitting in lawn chairs on the left while festival visitors are standing on the right. A tan and black sheep is standing between them. To the left of the lawn chairs is a pen containing more sheep.

Photograph of a white mule that is harnessed to the cane mill at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The mule is standing at a water bucket and has a yellow balloon attached to its tack.

Photograph of two boys playing bocce at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Each holding a ball the size of a grapefruit, one green and one red, they are about to toss them on the grass in front of them.

Photograph of children jumping off a large tree trunk in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The trunk is laid on its side next to a bed of hay into which a girl is jumping. Other children are standing on the trunk.

Photograph of children playing in the hay in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the foreground, two boys are throwing hay at each other. In the background, some girls are doing the same. A very large tree trunk is laid on its side on the right side of the photograph.

Photograph of children riding an artificial horse in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The white horse, on which a boy and girl are sitting, is tied to a tree on the right.

Photograph of children jumping off a large tree trunk in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The trunk is laid on its side next to a bed of hay into which a boy is jumping. Behind him, other children are standing on the trunk.

Photograph of the Devine Music Makers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing vests and cowboy hats, they are arranged on a gray stage in front of a backdrop of vertical orange banners. The band is made up of fiddlers, guitarists, and a piano player. A little girl is standing at the front of the stage, facing the audience.

Photograph of Allen Damron playing acoustic guitar at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a white shirt and jeans, and has brown hair and a beard.

Photograph of Dorceal Duckens directing the Duckens Family Singers, from Temple, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing light blue pants and a light blue t-shirt, he is on the left, leading the singers who are behind microphones on the right. They are all women, wearing skirts and the Duckens Family t-shirt.

Photograph of the Duckens Family Singers, from Temple, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are all wearing the same light blue Duckens family t-shirt as they stand in a row singing into microphones.

Photograph of Peter Breaz, of the band Hickory, playing bass guitar at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a football jersey t-shirt, he is playing a wood-colored bass guitar and singing into a microphone. He has long reddish brown hair and a beard.

Photograph of Marcia Breaz, of the band Hickory, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a bright blue tank top jumpsuit with white fringe across the top, she is singing into a microphone held by a stand on which a tambourine is hanging.

Photograph of the Devine Music Makers performing in front of a log cabin at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, a man wearing a cowboy hat is playing a fiddle. In the middle, an older man wearing a jumpsuit is playing a double-necked guitar. The man on the right is wearing a brown leather vest and playing an electric fiddle.

Photograph of two of the Devine Music Makers playing guitars in front of a log cabin at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They are facing each other, sitting on tree stumps. The man on the right is wearing a plaid shirt and a cowboy hat. The man on the left has white hair but is balding on top. An assortment of stringed instruments are hanging on the wall behind them.

Photograph of a woman singing on the Irish stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Wearing a dark knee-length dress, she is standing behind a microphone and holding some music. Behind her is a piano, a girl who is also singing into a microphone, and a man looking at music that is sitting on top of the piano.

Photograph of a man playing concertina on the Irish stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He has brown hair, a brown beard, and is wearing a green t-shirt.

Photograph of a man playing tin whistle on the Irish stage at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is wearing a newsboy cap, a yellow shirt, and navy pants as he plays the whistle into a microphone. Behind him a woman is playing piano and smiling.