Through various events and projects, KACF enriches cultural life in the Greater Boston area. Since 2013, KACF sponsored and collaborated with young Korean-American artists and their colleagues from other cultures many of whom move on to stellar careers. In recent years, we witnessed some of them winning prestigious scholarships and awards such as the Korean Popular Music Awards, and performing at coveted stages such as the Carnegie Hall and Newport Jazz Festivals.

In a 2013 event project entitled “Sonnet of an Innocent Flower“, we featured TeRra Han, a superb gayageum virtuoso from Korea, in a program of music and dance with accompanying commentaries on Korean poetry by Professor David McCann of Harvard University. In 2014, the main theme of our annual Gala concert was "Han", the unique concept of unrequited yearning and deep regret, which pervades much of Korean sentiment and its folk culture. The concert introduced original pieces by the composer Jae Hyeok Jang to the Boston audience. In 2015, our concert featured the Boston premiere of “Village Music”, a chamber piece composed by the young US composer Michael-Thomas Foumai, who drew inspiration from Shinawi, a Korean traditional style of music of shamanistic origin. The composer employed the western instruments such as clarinet and violin and created an interesting aural landscape that was reminiscent of the quintessential Korean traditional music employing gayageum and Pansori. The 2016 Gala concert “Elegy for the Fallen, Light Beyond the Abyss” touched a strong chord in the hearts of the audience who were weary of on-going turmoils both in Korea and the States. The concert featured several young musicians from Korea and other parts of the world in the unique fusion of the classical and the experimental repertoire. The final piece “Lost” by Wonmi Jung, DoYeon Kim, Chris McCarthy and Eli Cohen, was a moving tribute in memory of the Sewol Ferry victims.

We live in a tumultuous era. As our recent concert titled "Spring Awakening" (under the musical direction of YuMi Bae and Do Yeon Kim) showed that however harsh the Winter may be, Spring always comes back in Boston, as the famous Boston Marathon faithfully reminds us every year. More details

Every few years, KACF also plays the central role in curating and programming the Korean Cultural Festival Boston. The Festival series, the largest of its kind in the Boston area, has been sponsored by the Korean Church of Boston and in recent years its main music concert featured outstanding artists such as Terra Han, YuMi Bae, Sumie Kaneko, gamin, Do Yeon Kim, Youmi Cho along with top performers in jazz and world music. More details

Since 2018, KACF has been a partner with the Boston Children's Museum in its Annual Lunar New Year Festivities. Through collaboration with Boston Korean School and the Paper Art Studio (Mi Ja Yoon), we introduce Boston children and their parents to the fantastically beautiful and clever way Koreans have been celebrating the New Year. More details

Please join us as we continue pushing the envelope for both traditional and contemporary Korean music and art in the multi-cultural crisscross that is the great city of Boston.