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.
We invite you to explore our new website, which allows us to share the riches of the NCTA’s extraordinary audio and video collection of original live recordings. Documenting many decades of NCTA events, these precious recordings capture thousands of unique and exciting musical moments, interviews and cultural conversations. Changing features will offer a sampling of treasures from the NCTA Collection housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Explore the NCTA Collection
