Tennessee Traditions

The Tennessee Folklife Program collaborates with artists, culture workers, and nonprofit organizations to document, preserve and present Tennessee’s diverse traditions. Folklife is comprised of arts, expressive practices, and skills that are learned and passed down in cultural communities that share family, ethnic, tribal, regional, occupational, or religious identity. In Tennessee, folklife encompasses older cultural forms that have been here for decades and centuries, as well as arts and customs brought here more recently.