Folklorist Hasan M. El-Shamy died on August 16, 2026 in Bloomington, IN at the age of eighty-eight.
In Memoriam
Charles "Gordon" McCann, nationally acknowledged as a premiere preservationist of traditional Ozarks fiddle music and other facets of Missouri-Arkansas hill country culture, died on July 17, 2026 at the age of ninety-four.
Folklorist Lydia Fish died on January 19, 2026 in Buffalo, NY at the age of eighty-seven.
We are sad to announce that folklorist Rosan A. Jordan passed away Thursday, December 4, 2025 in New Orleans.
Bill Ivey, past president of the AFS and former chair of the NEA, died on November 7, 2025 in Nashville, TN at the age of eighty-one.
Former AFC Archive Head and lifetime AFS member Joe Hickerson died peacefully on August 17, 2025 in Portland, OR at the age of ninety.
Dr. Chris Goertzen, Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Southern Mississippi and an AFS member for over three decades, died on July 31, 2025 at the age of seventy-four after a brief illness.
AFS is deeply saddened to share the news of folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory's sudden passing on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
Maria Carmen Gambliel, a devoted artist, printmaker, and folklorist, passed away on May 24, 2025, at the age of seventy-nine.
Hungarian folklorist Vilmos Voigt died at the age of eighty-five on June 8, 2025.