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.
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
Asia
Bangladesh
India
Israel
Europe
- Europeade (held each year in a different European country)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Belgium
Bulgaria
Stara planina fest Balkan folk[4]
Denmark
Estonia
- Viljandi Folk Festival
Finland
France
Germany
Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"
Ireland
Lithuania
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- Kaziuko mugė, Vilnius
- Mėnuo Juodaragis, Zarasai
- Klaipeda
Netherlands
Russia
- Empty Hills, Kaluga Oblast
- Samara
Spain
- Interceltic Festival of Avilés
- Interceltic Festival of Morrazo
- Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World
United Kingdom
- Between The Trees
- Beverley Folk Festival
- Cambridge Folk Festival
- Celtic Connections
- England's Medieval Festival
- Edinburgh Folk Festival
- Fairport's Cropredy Convention
- FolkEast Festival
- The Green Man Festival
- Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival
- Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival
- Shetland Folk Festival
- Shrewsbury Folk Festival
- Sidmouth Folk Festival
- Soma Festival
- Wickham Festival
- Wimborne Folk Festival
North America
Honduras
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)
United States
Alaska
California
- Big Sur Folk Festival
- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
District of Columbia
Florida
Illinois
Fox Valley Folk Music And Storytelling Festival
Indiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Montana
- Montana Folk Festival
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
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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- ISBN 0-8212-2137-X
- ^ Harman, Danna (19 April 2013). "Jacobs Ladder, the Friendly 'Festival for Everyone". TheMarker – via Haaretz.
- ^ "English - Boombalfestival". Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ "BALKAN FOLK FESTIVAL". BALKAN FOLK FESTIVAL.
- ^ "KAUSTINEN FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL". KAUSTINEN FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL.
- ^ "El Grande de Grandes". Ballet Folklórico de Honduras Oro Lenca. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- 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,