IF YOU WISH TO PERFORM
The festival takes place annually during the last full weekend in July. The programming committee considers only ethnic and traditional performers.
Programming meetings usually take place in September and October, December and January and, if needed, in March. Performers are contracted through the National Council for the Traditional Arts and receive notification of selection by the end of April. We do not contact unsuccessful applicants as there are so many requests it is time prohibitive.
There is no application for performance. If you are an ethnic or traditional performer or group, and wish to be considered, send a biography and a CD or an audio or VHS video tape to:
Program Manager
National Council for the Traditional Arts
1320 Fenwick Lane - Suite 200
Silver Spring, MD 20910
or biographies can be e-mailed to:
info@ncta.net
PLEASE NOTE:
We are not able to return these materials as we receive hundreds every year.
Definition of “traditional”
All work must be traditional as defined below:
Traditional arts are those art forms that are learned as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members share a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or culturally united geographic region. Folk and traditional arts are shaped by the aesthetics and values of a shared culture and are passed from generation to generation, most often within family and community through observation, conversation and practice.
Source: The National Endowment for the Arts
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