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.

Asia

Bangladesh
  • Dhaka International Folk Fest[2]

Turkey
  • Bodrum International Folk Dance Festival[3]

India

Israel

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Czech Republic
  • International Folklore Festival "Moonlight in Prague"
  • International festival of dance and song "Spring Tale" - Prague
  • International festival of dance and song "Autumn Tale" - Prague

Poland
  • Beskidy Highlanders' Week of Culture
  • International Folklore Festival "Moonlight in Krakow"

Hungary
  • International Folklore Festival "Moonlight in Budapest"

Serbia
  • International Folklore Festival "Moonlight in Belgrade"
  • International festival of dance and song "Zaigraj Zapevaj" - Belgrade

Belarus
  • International Folk Music Festival "Kamyanitsa"

Belgium
  • Boombal Festival[8]
  • Dranouter Festival[9]
  • Gooikoorts International volksmuziekfestival[10]
  • Folk Festival Marsinne[11]
  • Hello!Schoten Volksdansfestival[12]
  • Internationaal Folklore festival Westerlo

Bulgaria
  • International ethno art forum "WithoutBorders"
  • International Children's Folk Festival "Varna"
  • Open Balkan Championship of Folklore "Jiva Voda - Euro Folk"[13]
  • Open European Championship of Folklore "Euro Folk"[13]
  • Open National Championship of Folklore "Euro Folk"[13]
  • Stara Planina Fest "Balkan Folk"[13]
  • World Championship of Folklore "World Folk"[13]
  • International Folklore festival "Moonlight in Sofia"
  • Balkan folk fest "Foundation Balkan Folk Fest"[14]
  • International festival of dance and song "Golden days" - Varna

Denmark

Estonia
  • Hiiu Folk (Kassari, Hiiumaa)
  • Viljandi Folk Festival
  • Viru Folk (Käsmu)
  • Võru Folklore

Finland
  • Etnosoi! Festival (Helsinki)
  • Haapavesi Folk Music Festival[15]
  • Hollo and Martta International Folklore Festival (Hollola)[16]
  • Jutajaiset Folklore Festival (Rovaniemi)[17]
  • Kalenat International Children Folklore Festival (Lappeenranta)[18]
  • Kaustinen Folk Music Festival[19]
  • Kihaus Folk Festival (Rääkkylä)[20]
  • KoskisFolk (Koski Tl) (every other year)[21]
  • Medieval Folk Fest Tampere
  • PispalaFolk (Tampere)
  • Pispalan Sottiisi – Pispala Schottische (Tampere)[22]
  • Sata-Häme Soi – International Accordion Festival (Ikaalinen)[23]

France
Festival Interceltique de Lorient

Germany

see Volksfest

Greece
  • International festival od dance and song "Hanioti"
  • International Folklore Festival "Moonlight in Thessaloniki"
  • International Folklore Festival "Moonlight in Athens"

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

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

Macedonia
  • International Veterans Festival of dance and songs "Ohrid Waves"
  • International festival of dance and songs "Ohrid Waves"

Netherlands
Rapalje Zomerfolk Festival
  • Rapalje Zomerfolk Festival
  • Castlefest
  • International Folklore Festival "Moonlight in Amsterdam"
  • Cadansa

Russia

Spain
The 2004 Interceltic Festival of Avilés in Asturias, Spain

Slovakia
  • Folk Festival Detva
  • Folk Festival Horehronské dni spevu a tanca - Heľpa
  • Folk Festival Jánošíkové dni - Terchová
  • Folk Festival Východná
  • International Folk Festival Myjava
  • Rusínsky Folk Festival Svidník
  • International Folklore Festival "Moonlight in Bratislava"

Sweden
  • Green World Yoga & Sacred Music Festival — held in July (Skåne)[38]
  • Urkult Näsåker — held in August each year; purportedly the largest world music festival (Ångermanland)[39]
  • Korrö Folk Festival

United Kingdom

North America

Honduras

Canada

Alberta

British Columbia
  • Kaslo Folk Music Fest[47]
  • Vancouver Folk Music Fest[48]

Manitoba
  • Back 40 Folk Festival (Morden)[49]
  • Brandon Folk, Music & Art Festival (Brandon)[50]
  • Harvest Moon Festival (Clearwater)[51]
  • Harvest Sun Music Fest (Kelwood)[52]
  • Matlock Festival of Music Art and Nature (Matlock)[53]
  • Portage la Prairie Winter Folk Fest (Portage la Prairie)[54]
  • Prairie Wind Music Festival (Cypress River)[55]
  • Rainbow Trout Music Festival (St. Malo)[56]
  • Shine On Festival of Music & Art (Kerry)[57]
  • Whoop & Hollar Folk Festival (Portage la Prairie)[54]
  • Winnipeg Folk Festival (Birds Hill)

Newfoundland/Labrador
  • Heritage Folk Festival (Terra Nova Park)[58]
  • Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival (St. John's)[59]

Nova Scotia

Ontario

Quebec
  • Folk Alliance International Conference[63]

Saskatchewan

United States

Alaska

California
  • El Cerrito Free Folk Festival
  • San Francisco Free Folk Festival

Delaware
  • Delmarva Folk Festival

District of Columbia

Florida

Illinois
  • University of Chicago Folk Festival[64]

Indiana

Maine

Massachusetts

Missouri
  • Pickin' On Picknic

Montana
  • Montana Folk Festival[66]

Nebraska
  • National Old Time Music Festival, Fremont, NE

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio
  • Blue Sky Folk Festival[67]
  • Lake Erie Folk Fest[68]

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Tennessee

Texas

Travelling

Virginia
  • Richmond Folk Festival[76]

Washington

West Virginia
  • West Virginia State Folk Festival[78]

Wisconsin

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand
  • Auckland Folk Festival
  • Wellington Folk Festival - held over Labour Weekend; Labour Day in New Zealand is the fourth Monday in October
  • Cardrona Folk Festival - held over Labour Weekend in the Cardrona Valley near Wanaka; Labour Day in New Zealand is fourth Monday in October; run by Martin Curtis
  • Canterbury Folk Festival - held at Easter in the Waipara Valley north of Christchurch; run by the Christchurch Folk Music Club
  • Tui Farm Folk Festival - held over the New Year period near Tapawera in the Nelson district; run by Steve and Carol Rose
  • Waihi Bush Folk Festival - held the weekend nearest to Waitangi Day (6 February) near Geraldine in South Canterbury; run by David Musgrave
  • Whare Flat Folk Festival - held over the New Year period at Whare Flat near Dunedin; run by Dunedin's New Edinburgh Folk Club
  • Whitestone Folk Festival - held at Queen's Birthday weekend near Herbert in North Otago; Queen's Birthday is observed in New Zealand on the first Monday in June; run by Dunedin's New Edinburgh Folk Club
  • Towersey music festival
  • Sark Folk Festival 2013
  • 2010
  • Grushinsky festival 2010
  • 2008

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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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