A room devoted to folk art is terrific, but it is swamped by everything else.
Other displays are devoted to folk and regional costumes and new acquisitions.
His newest album, "Wayfaring Stranger," is devoted to folk songs, accompanied by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
In 1959 Tanvir and his future wife, Moneeka Mishra, founded Naya Theatre, a company devoted to folk performance.
When he hosted "Rainbow Quest," a television show devoted to folk music, in 1965 and 1966, she directed it — although her official credit was "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer".
Side A is devoted to folk-tinged pieces he contributed to films by Sean Gannet and Roman Khrushch, most notably Mr. Khrushch's "Black Lamb," a Russian comedy about race relations in Moscow.
Promoted by Jazz FM, the festival fills a gap in the UK's Summer calendar, which boasts festivals devoted to folk, heavy metal and dance music but no comparable event for fans of improvised horn-blowing.
A smaller display is devoted to folk costumes from around the world, and a fourth presents recent acquisitions, including, interestingly enough, a 1989 ball gown worn by the consort of another prince of Wales, Alexandra's great-great-granddaughter-in-law, Diana.
For three sultry August days, I toured Williamsburg, standing in line to enter the wigmaker's shop or the printing press or a clapboard house, following an interpreter's lantern around town in the dark while he told local ghost stories, visiting its three museums devoted to folk art, archaeology and the decorative arts.
The history of rock writing begins around 1966 when, with what was once mere "pop" being taken seriously, the American writer Paul Williams published a journal-cum-fanzine titled Crawdaddy, which aimed to bring to rock music the kind of cerebral writing long devoted to folk and jazz.
