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

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

Germany

Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"

Ireland

Lithuania

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

Netherlands

Russia

Spain

United Kingdom

North America

Honduras

Canada

Alaska

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

  1. West, Shearer (general editor), The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, page 440, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, 1996. ISBN 0-8212-2137-X
  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. "El Grande de Grandes". Ballet Folklórico de Honduras Oro Lenca. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  7. 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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