Singer-songwriter Amanda Pascali will perform a free concert at the Library of Congress on Thursday, Aug. 13, in a program celebrating the American Folklife Center’s 50th anniversary.
The concert begins at 7 p.m. in the Coolidge Auditorium. The Library lists Pascali as its 2026 Artist in Resonance and describes the program as a blend of folk and Americana with Mediterranean, Balkan and Latin influences.
Admission is free, but the Library directs visitors to register through its Live! at the Library ticketing system. The ticket also provides access to exhibitions and extended Thursday evening hours in the Thomas Jefferson Building.
Pascali’s concert is the middle of three highlighted August music nights. The month opened Aug. 6 with K-pop programs and an outdoor screening of Apollo 13, and it closes Aug. 27 with a Great Hall café concert by banjo player Tray Wellington and his band.
The American Folklife Center was established in 1976 to preserve and present traditional culture. Its archive contains songs, oral histories, photographs and field recordings gathered from communities in the United States and abroad.
The Artist in Resonance designation connects a working artist with those collections and with public programming. In this case, the anniversary concert foregrounds music shaped by migration and multiple regional traditions rather than treating folk music as a single fixed style.
Visitors during the Library’s Thursday evening program can also enter the Main Reading Room experience and current exhibitions, subject to the building’s access rules and capacity.
The event notice supplies the date, time, venue and registration path, but it does not publish a song-by-song set list. Attendees should not assume a specific repertoire beyond the musical traditions the Library identifies.
For planning purposes, the key details are straightforward: Thursday, Aug. 13; 7 p.m.; Coolidge Auditorium; free advance registration through the Library’s official event system.