The Steam Powered Preservation Society. The SPPS is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation of our musical heritage. The mission of the SPPS is to preserve and share archival tapes of significant historical value, and to make them available for educational use.

Check out their preservation work, download a few tunes and consider a donation to their operations.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution. Originally Folkways Records & Service Company, Folkways released 2,168 recordings before founder Moses Asch's death in 1986. The Smithsonian, which acquired Folkways in 1987, continues to make almost all of the original Folkways recordings available for purchase while continuing to add new recordings to the collection.