PERFORMING AT THE LOWELL FOLK FESTIVAL

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.

Preferred artist submission for the Lowell Folk Festival is electronically through Sonicbids.

Artists may still submit hard materials directly to the festival at:

Program Manager
National Council for the Traditional Arts
1320 Fenwick Lane - Suite 200
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Please include audio (required) and video samples biographical information and press materials.

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