List of folk festivals

A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods.

Inuit dance near Nome, Alaska, in 1900

Handicrafting has long been exhibited at such events and festival-like gatherings, as it has its roots in the rural crafts. Like folk art, handicraft output often has cultural, political, and/or religious significance. Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic, and is often sold at festivals by tradespeople or practicing amateurs.[1] As at folk festivals, such art and handicraft may also appear at historical reenactments and events such as Renaissance fairs.

Africa

South Africa

Misty Waters Music Festival

Asia

Bangladesh

India

Israel
  • Jacob's Ladder[2]

Europe
Dancers on the Europeade 2015 in Helsingborg in Sweden.
  • Europeade (held each year in a different European country)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Ilidža Folk Music Festival
  • Ilidža International Children's Folklore Festival

Belgium
  • Boombal Festival[3]

Bulgaria

Stara planina fest Balkan folk[4]

Denmark
  • Tønder Festival

Estonia
  • Viljandi Folk Festival

Finland
  • Kaustinen Folk Music Festival[5]

France
Festival Interceltique de Lorient

Germany

Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"

Ireland
  • Temple Bar TradFest

Lithuania
Experimental neofolk act Rome performing on the Mėnuo Juodaragis Big stage in 2013

Netherlands
  • Castlefest

Russia

Spain
The 2004 Interceltic Festival of Avilés in Asturias, Spain
  • Interceltic Festival of Avilés
  • Interceltic Festival of Morrazo
  • Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World

United Kingdom

North America

Honduras
  • Encuentro Folklórico Nacional El Grande de Grandes[6]

Canada
  • Calgary Folk Music Festival
  • Canmore Folk Music Festival
  • Edmonton Folk Music Festival
  • Vancouver Folk Music Festival
  • Winnipeg Folk Festival (Birds Hill)
  • Celtic Colours (Cape Breton)
  • Stan Rogers Folk Festival (Canso)
  • CityFolkFestival (Ottawa)
  • Emerald Music Festival
  • Hillside Festival (Guelph)
  • Home County Folk Festival (London)
  • Mariposa Folk Festival (Orillia)
  • Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music (Cambridge)
  • Northern Lights Festival Boréal (Sudbury)
  • Red Rock Folk Festival (Red Rock)
  • Regina Folk Festival
  • Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival (Owen Sound)
  • TD Canada Trust Sunfest (London)

Alaska
  • Alaska Folk Festival

California

District of Columbia

Florida
  • Florida Folk Festival

Illinois

Fox Valley Folk Music And Storytelling Festival

Indiana
  • Feast of the Hunters' Moon[7]

Maine
  • American Folk Festival

Massachusetts
  • Lowell Folk Festival
  • New England Folk Festival

Montana

New Jersey
  • New Jersey Folk Festival

New York
  • Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
  • Old Songs Festival

North Carolina
  • Folkmoot USA

North Dakota

Oklahoma

Oregon
  • Sisters Folk Festival

Pennsylvania
  • Flood City Music Festival
  • Philadelphia Folk Festival
  • Pittsburgh Folk Festival

Rhode Island

Tennessee
  • The Americana Folk Festival

Texas

Traveling

Washington

Wisconsin
  • Great River Folk Fest
  • Holiday Folk Fair
  • Mile of Music

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand
  • Whare Flat Folk Festival - held over the New Year period at Whare Flat near Dunedin; run by Dunedin's New Edinburgh Folk Club

References
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  1. West, Shearer (general editor), The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, page 440, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, 1996. ISBN 0-8212-2137-X
  2. Harman, Danna (19 April 2013). "Jacobs Ladder, the Friendly 'Festival for Everyone". TheMarker – via Haaretz.
  3. "English - Boombalfestival". Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  4. "BALKAN FOLK FESTIVAL". BALKAN FOLK FESTIVAL.
  5. "KAUSTINEN FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL". KAUSTINEN FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL.
  6. "El Grande de Grandes". Ballet Folklórico de Honduras Oro Lenca. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  7. Gisler, Margaret (2004). "Feast of the Hunters' Moon". Fun with the Family Indiana (5th ed.). Globe Pequot. pp. 177–178. ISBN 978-0-7627-2978-4.

Further reading
  • Coffin, Tristam P.; Cohen, Hennig, (editors), Folklore in America; tales, songs, superstitions, proverbs, riddles, games, folk drama and folk festivals, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1966. Selections from the Journal of American folklore. Cf. chapter on "Folk Drama and Folk Festival", pp. 195–225,
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