By Brangien Davis | Michael Upchurch | Nicole Capozziello – CrossCut.com – Photo courtesy of Northwest Folklife.

Photo from last year at the Northwest Folklife Festival, courtesy of Northwest Folklife.

It’s pretty amazing that the Northwest Folklife Festival — with some 5,000 performers presenting music, dance, film and storytelling over four days — is still free. The cultural theme for this 47th year is “Echoes of Aztlán and Beyond: Mexican American and Chicana/o Roots in the Northwest.”

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