List of folk festivals
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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
Europe
- Europeade (held each year in a different European country)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ilidža Folk Music Festival
- Ilidža International Children's Folklore Festival
Belgium
Bulgaria
- Stara planina fest Balkan folk[4]
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
- Festival Interceltique de Lorient (Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient)
- Rencontres Internationales de Luthiers et Maîtres-Sonneurs
Germany
- Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"
Greece
- Kerasovo Festival, Ioannina
Ireland
Lithuania
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- Kaziuko mugė (Saint Casimir's Fair), Vilnius
- Mėnuo Juodaragis (Black-Horned Moon or Moon of the Black Horn), Zarasai
- Parbėg laivelis (Little Ship Is Coming Back), Klaipėda
Netherlands
- Castlefest
- Worldfestival Parade Brunssum
Russia
Spain
United Kingdom
- Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival (location changes each year)
England
- Beverley Folk Festival, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- England's Medieval Festival, Nutley, East Sussex
- Fairport's Cropredy Convention, Cropredy, Oxfordshire
- FolkEast, Somerleyton Hall (near Somerleyton), Suffolk
- Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival, Middlewich, Cheshire
- Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Sidmouth Folk Festival, Sidmouth, Devon
- Wickham Festival, Wickham, Hampshire
- Wimborne Folk Festival, Wimborne Minster, Dorset
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
- Between the Trees, Merthyr Mawr
- Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons
North America
Canada
- Emerald Music Festival[where?]
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival, St. John's[6]
Nova Scotia
- Celtic Colours, Cape Breton Island
- Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival[7], Lunenburg
- Stan Rogers Folk Festival, Canso
Ontario
- CityFolkFestival, Ottawa
- Hillside Festival, Guelph
- Home County Folk Festival, London
- Mariposa Folk Festival, Orillia
- Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music, Cambridge
- Northern Lights Festival Boréal, Greater Sudbury
- Red Rock Folk Festival, Red Rock
- Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival, Owen Sound
- TD Canada Trust Sunfest, London
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
- Whare Flat Folk Festival - held over the New Year period at Whare Flat near Dunedin; run by Dunedin's New Edinburgh Folk Club
