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.
Traditional Arts on the Road: the NCTA Touring Program
For 40 years, the NCTA has been producing outstanding tours of authentic folk and traditional artists. In planning tours the NCTA tends to hold to a three-point standard that was set with its first tours. First, all tours are conceptual and educational. Second, the traditions presented, and the performers, must have deep roots in a cultural community – must belong to a people and be something more than a “style.” Third, tour concepts will embrace a broad range of arts and cultural traditions, reflecting the multicultural approach that the NCTA has taken since 1933.
Comprehensive List of NCTA Tours
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Captured Live: Musical highlights from NCTA Tours
Now featuring: Masters of the Steel String Guitar (1990-91)
