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.
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[edit]
South Africa[edit]
Asia[edit]
Bangladesh[edit]
India[edit]
Israel[edit]
Europe[edit]
- Europeade (held each year in a different European country)
Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]
Belgium[edit]
Bulgaria[edit]
Stara planina fest Balkan folk[4]
Denmark[edit]
Estonia[edit]
Finland[edit]
France[edit]
Germany[edit]
Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"
Ireland[edit]
Lithuania[edit]
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Netherlands[edit]
Russia[edit]
Spain[edit]
- Interceltic Festival of Avilés
- Interceltic Festival of Morrazo
- Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World
United Kingdom[edit]
- 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[edit]
Honduras[edit]
Canada[edit]
- 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[edit]
Alaska[edit]
California[edit]
District of Columbia[edit]
Florida[edit]
Illinois[edit]
Fox Valley Folk Music And Storytelling Festival
Indiana[edit]
Maine[edit]
Massachusetts[edit]
Montana[edit]
New Jersey[edit]
New York[edit]
North Carolina[edit]
North Dakota[edit]
Oklahoma[edit]
Oregon[edit]
Pennsylvania[edit]
Rhode Island[edit]
Tennessee[edit]
Texas[edit]
Traveling[edit]
Washington[edit]
Wisconsin[edit]
Oceania[edit]
Australia[edit]
New Zealand[edit]
- Whare Flat Folk Festival - held over the New Year period at Whare Flat near Dunedin; run by Dunedin's New Edinburgh Folk Club
References[edit]
- ^ West, Shearer (general editor), The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, page 440, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, 1996. 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.
- ^ 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[edit]
- 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,