The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) The NCTA is the nation’s oldest multicultural arts presenting organization. For over eight decades, through festivals, tours, symposia, exhibits, and media productions, the NCTA has showcased the very best of the myriad grassroots folk, tribal and ethnic cultures that comprise our diverse nation.
The NCTA received the Folk Alliance International’s 2010 Elaine Weissman Lifetime Achievement Award on Wednesday, February 17 at the 2010 International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, TN. The other recipients of this year’s award were Bob Dylan and the late Elizabeth Cotton.
