Chum Ngek

Chum Ngek performs regularly in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, National Folk Festival and for the Cambodian American Heritage Inc. in Virginia and Cambodian Buddhist Society, Inc. in Maryland. Performance highlights include:

 

2023: Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD

2020: Library of Congress, Homegrown@Home (virtual)

2018: Maryland Folklife Festival, Salisbury, MD; Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

2017: Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Anacostia Community Museum, Washington, DC

2016: Lowell Folk Festival, Lowell, MA

2015: Montana Folk Festival, Butte, MT; Richmond Folk Festival, Richmond, VA; Towson University, Towson, MD

2013: Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival, Baltimore, MD; Reston Multicultural Festival Reston, VA

2012: Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival, Baltimore, MD

2010: Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington, DC; Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

2009: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD; Towson University, Towson, MD.

2008: Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

2007: Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington, DC

2006: Bates College, Lewiston, ME; Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD.

2005: Cecil Community College. Elkton, MD; Towson University, Towson, MD; Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC; National Folk Festival, Richmond, VA

2004: ArtScape Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

2003: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC; Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

2002: Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC

2000: National Folk Festival, Lansing, MI

1999: National Festival of Khmer Arts, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

1998: Ethnic Heritage Festival, Montgomery County, MD

1997-2000: Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, ME

1996: Statue of Liberty, New York, NY; World Trade Center, New York, NY

1995: Columbia University, New York, NY

1992-1996: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Beckett, MA

1984: Epcot Center,Orlando, FL

1983: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY; California Tour (San Francisco, San Diego, Long beach, Los Angeles)

1982: Galang Refugee Camp, Galang, Indonesia; Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA

1979-1982: Khao I Dang Refugee Camp, Thailand

1974: University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

1971-1973: Battambang Governor’s Mansion, Battambang, Cambodia