Great Valley Gathering Festival

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
PROGRAM #11275 11:00 AM PT

Great Valley Gathering Festival. 

The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) presents The Great Valley Gathering Festival, a three-day festival celebrating the living traditions that shape California’s Central Valley. The event brings together Latino, Indigenous, African American, and Southeast Asian communities to showcase some of their finest folk and traditional arts, including music, dance, storytelling, crafts, and culinary traditions. This special event is organized in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as part of a national initiative titled Of the People: The Smithsonian Festival of Festivals.

Guests: Amy Kitchener, Popular Folklorist, Co-founder and Executive Director, Alliance for California Traditional Arts-ACTA, Fresno, CA; Quetzal Flores, Production Manager for the Great Valley Gathering Festival, Chicano Musician, Activist, Community Organizer, Musical Director and Founder of the Grammy Award-winning Chicano rock band Quetzal, Los Angeles, CA; Samuel Orozco, News and Information Director, Radio Bilingüe, Fresno, CA.

Photo: Smithsonian

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