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The East Coast gets “Swanktified” —A conversation with Swanky Kitchen Band’s Samuel Rose

We are still abuzz after producing this summer’s East Coast Tour of the Cayman Island’s cultural guardians, the Swanky Kitchen Band. The group knocked out audiences at the Lowell Folk Festival. They performed to a full Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress and then were interviewed for the Archive…...

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Join us at the 20th Annual Richmond Folk Festival

Time truly flies. It’s hard to believe, but the Richmond Folk Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this September 27-29th along the city’s beautiful riverfront. Each of CCV’s principal staff has been connected with the festival since it first came to Richmond as the National Folk Festival in 2005. CCV associate director Josh…...

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CCV Returns to Ireland!

CCV is proud to join our partners at the Clifden Arts Festival to once again bring our spirit of cultural exchange and artistic inclusion to the west of Ireland! This year CCV will be accompanying a trio of stellar old time musicians—Danny Knicely, Riley Baugus and John Flower—to meet, collaborate and…...

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CenterStage Partnership: Taking CCV to meet artists around the world

We are off and running with our exciting partnership with CenterStage and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, designing educational outreach programming through our World Culture in Context program for the 2025-2026 U.S. touring season.  We are deeply grateful for the opportunity, and this past…...

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Presenting Ustad Noor Bahksh, Master of the Balochi Electric Benju

This coming September and October, Noor Bakhsh, a legendary instrumentalist from the Makran coast of Pakistan will bring the electric benju to U.S. audiences for a rare performance of a unique and fascinating sound. The Markan coast is the semi-desert coastal strip of Balochistan on the Gulf of Oman. Noor…...

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World Culture in Context – A Virtual Portal to the World

CCV launched a web tool that provides students the opportunity to learn about and directly interact with traditional artists from around the world! World Culture in Context (WCC), a program we have been refining since the pandemic, allows classroom students to visit artists in the places that have profoundly shaped…...

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