List of folk festivals

Inuit dance near Nome, Alaska, in 1900

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.

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

Morocco

  • Marrakech Folkloredays

South Africa

  • Misty Waters Music Festival

Asia

Bangladesh

  • Dhaka International Folk Fest

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

Belgium

Bulgaria

  • Stara planina fest Balkan folk[4]

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Festival Interceltique de Lorient (Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient)

Germany

  • Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"

Greece

  • Kerasovo Festival, Ioannina

Ireland

Lithuania

Experimental neofolk act Rome performing on the Mėnuo Juodaragis (Black-Horned Moon) big stage in 2013

Netherlands

Russia

Spain

The 2004 Interceltic Festival of Avilés in Asturias, Spain

United Kingdom

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

North America

Canada

  • Emerald Music Festival

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

Newfoundland and Labrador

Nova Scotia

Ontario

Saskatchewan

Honduras

United States

Alaska

Arizona

  • Tucson Folk Festival

California

District of Columbia

Florida

Illinois

  • Fox Valley Folk Music And Storytelling Festival

Indiana

Maine

Massachusetts

Montana

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Tennessee

Texas

Traveling

Washington

Wisconsin

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

References

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  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. ^ "Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society". Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Folk Harbour Festival". Folk Harbour. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  8. ^ "El Grande de Grandes". Ballet Folklórico de Honduras Oro Lenca. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  9. ^ 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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