New York Folklore

After nearly three decades of leadership as New York Folklore’s Executive Director, Ellen McHale will retire on May 1, 2027.

New York Folklore received 2026 support from the Regrants and Services program of the New York State Council on the Arts, to launch a “Folk Artists’ in the Schools” Regrant Program for folk and traditional arts.

Schenectady County Connects supports a youth development program that offers summer jobs for Schenectady County youth.

We are pleased to release New York Folklore’s annual report for 2025.

My name is Andrea Celeste Del Cid.

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Juan Uribe is a Colombian musician and recording engineer living in New York, he has played with La Cumbiamba Eneye, Rebolu, Edmar Castañeda, and the United Nations Orchestra.

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Denise “Weetahmoe” Silva-Dennis (Shinnecock/Hassanamisco-Nipmuc) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator living on the Shinnecock Nation in Southampton, New York.

I make acoustic guitars in a shop about the size of a two-car garage, and I use woods that grow right here in the area where I live.

I grew up in a family that had parties for everything, from christenings to first communions, quinceañeras to weddings.