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   From: gcmccoury@yahoo.com   
      
   Smithsonian Folkways Inks Deal with Ryko   
         Fri Nov 5, 1:03 AM ET   
      
   By Chris Morris   
      
   LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - New York-based Ryko Distribution will   
   handle Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit   
   record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum.   
      
   The new deal is effective Jan. 1. Smithsonian Folkways had been distributed   
   for more than a decade by Port Washington, N.Y.-based Koch Entertainment   
   Distribution.   
      
      
   Smithsonian Folkways is one of the largest caches of classic American folk   
   music in the country.   
      
      
   In 1987, the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural   
   Heritage acquired the recordings and papers of Folkways Records, the New   
   York label founded in 1948 by the late Moses Asch and partner Marian   
   Distler.   
      
      
   Smithsonian Folkways has reissued a large number of Asch's catalog   
   recordings by such legendary talents as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and Pete   
   Seeger on CD. In 1998, the label won two Grammy Awards for its reissue of   
   Harry Smith's landmark 1952 "Anthology of American Folk Music."   
      
      
   As a proviso of the purchase, the label has kept the entire Folkways catalog   
   available for sale through its custom-order service.   
      
      
   Since 1987, Smithsonian Folkways has released more than 300 new recordings   
   on the imprint.   
      
      
   Reuters/Hollywood Reporter   
      
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