Tickets for the National Endowment for the Arts' annual National Heritage Fellowship award winners' concert, including kytrad, are now available. The concert, on September 20 at 7:30 PM at George Washington University's Listner Auditorium in Washington, DC, is free but tickets are required.

Performers are: Ralph Blizard, Old-time fiddler (Blountville, Tenn.) Loren Bommelyn, Tolowa tradition bearer (Crescent City, Calif.) Kevin Burke, Irish fiddler (Portland, Ore.) Rose Cree/Francis Cree, Ojibwe basketmakers/storytellers (Dunseith, N.D.) Luderin Darbone/Edwin Duhon, Cajun fiddler and accordionist (Sulphur, La./Westlake, La.) Nadim Dlaikan, Lebanese nye (reed flute) player (Southgate, Mich.) David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Blues guitarist/singer (Chicago, Ill.) Flory Jagoda, Sephardic musician/composer (Falls Church, Va.) Clara Neptune Keezer, Passamaquoddy basketmaker (Perry, Maine) Bob McQuillen, Contra dance musician/composer (Peterborough, N.H.) Domingo "Mingo" Saldivar, Conjunto accordionist (San Antonio, Texas) Losang Samten, Tibetan sand mandala painter (Philadelphia, Pa.) Jean Ritchie, Appalachian musician/songwriter (Port Washington, N.Y. & Viper, Ky.)

You can request tix by phone from the National Council for the Traditional Arts: 301-565-0654 or pick them up at various locations around DC:

Listner Auditorium Box Office 202-994-6800

TICKETplace 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 202-842-5387

House of Musical Traditions Takoma Park, MD 301-270-9090