This style of building is from Mali, a country
in the Sahara desert.
Appalachan guitar pickers.
The music at these festivals is always good, and plentiful.
You may even hear types of music you have never heard.
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| Smithsonian folk life festival. What a great arch! Too bad all these structures are torn down after the festival. | Adobe arches are made by using a wooden form to lay the
blocks, and removing the form after the mortar sets up.
Check out the swami. This style of building is from Mali, a country in the Sahara desert. |
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Appalachan guitar pickers. The music at these festivals is always good, and plentiful. You may even hear types of music you have never heard. |
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| Here a woman applys stucco
to an adobe building. |
An almost pollution free brick kiln, invented by a guy from Juarez, Mexico, using his own bricks and ground clay stucco. |
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| A Ranchera band | This Mexican artisan is just one of the thousands of things to see and do at the festival. |