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Big Muddy Folk Festival
April festival in Booneville, MO concentrates on traditional songs and styles.
Here's a fan site with lots of photos.
Boston
Folk Festival
Now run by WUMB, this new September festival is one of the potentially great
urban festivals.
Cajun/Zydeco
Crawfish Festival
Fort Lauderdale, FL -early May. Just what it says: cajun, zydeco and shellfish.Four-stage
stadium event makes a claim to being the biggest C/Z dance festival in the country.
Since 1993.
Caspar World Folk Festival
Caspar California
Champlain
Valley Folk Festival
Burlington, VT, first weekend in August. Features three days of concerts, folk
dancing, workshops, storytelling, jam sessions, family activities, regional
handmade crafts, and more.
Clearwater
Hudson River Revival
This June festival is known for being long on politics and environmental issues,
with local and national activist groups participating in addition to the music
and many educational activities.
Dirty
Linen Festival Schedule
A mind-boggling list of hundreds of festivals in North America and Europe.
Estrogen
Festival
Worcester, MA. Yes, Lilith Fair has blossomed. Don't be put off by the name
of this local celebration of women's movement - it's mostly mellow folk.
Falcon
Ridge Folk Festival
Hillsdale, NY. Late July. One of the great U.S. songwriter festivals.
Festival
Finder
Searchable database for festivals worldwide.
Folk
Project Festival - May & October
Northern NJ. One of the most creatively run festivals anywhere. Limited to 250 participants with a full schedule of daytime workshops, evening concerts, late-night contra dancing & skits... it's more like folk camp! Artists typically hang with the crowd.
Flat
Rock Music Festival
Flat Rock, NC. End of August. Songwriters in many genres.
Flye Point Music and Arts Festival
Brooklin, ME. On the shore. Late June.
Founder's
Folk and Bluegrass Festival
Salt Lake City, UT. August. Annual festival organized by the excellent Inter-mountain
Acoustic Music Assoc. Includes a prestigious songwriter contest.
Fox
Valley Folk Music, Dance & Storytelling Festival
North-central Illinois Festival celebrates all aspects of folk music, dance
and lore.
Guinness
Fleadh
New York, Chicago, San Francisco. June. The Fleadh (pronounced Flah) combines
Celtic and Celtic-influenced music with great songwriters and popular entertainers
from Van Morrison to Hootie. Context is everything.
Hills
of Home Bluegrass Festival
Hills of Home Park (Old Home Place) on Smith Ridge between Coeburn and McClure,
Virginia. End of May.
Kerrville
Folk Festival
Kerrville, TX. Starts Memorial Day - 3 weeks. No festival lasts longer or creates
more community with its top lineups, legendary campfires and lazy weekdays.
Influential New Folk songwriter competition. Get a sense of the place in my
Notes from
the Road article.
Kerrville
Wine and Music Festival
Kerrville, TX. September 3-5 A shorter version with wine. Same overall musical
ethos as its big sister.
Lotus
Festival
Bloomington, IN, September 22-26. A festival featuring American traditional
and world music, connected with the renowned folklore program at U of I.
Lowell
Folk Festival
Folk festival with a focus on labor songs (Lowell was one of the great textile
centers of New England). Last weekend in July.
Michael
Arnone's Crawfish Fest
Stanhope, NJ & Detroit, MI
Millpond
Festival
Bishop, CA. Sept 17-19. A fine festival featuring bluegrass, old-timey and world
musics: Peter Rowan, Utah Phillips, Laurie Lewis. Very beautiful website too.
Napa
Valley Music and Wine Festival
Napa CA. Sept. 24-26. A fine songwriter festival, home of one of the most widely
known songwriter contests.
National
Council for Traditional Arts
This organization sponsors many, many festivals, including the Lowell Folk Festival
and the Washington Celtic Festival. Many riches. This page lists 'em.
National
Folk Festival
East Lansing, MI. August. Oldest folk festival in the country, and defined the
form - including workshops, crafts and international music.
New Bedford Summerfest
In its fifth year, this has become one of the premiere traditional and contemporary
folk music festivals, with over 20,000 attending.
New
England Fiddle Fest & Contest
Bushnell Park, Hartford CT May 27th - great fiddlers from all over the country
compete in this revived festival that used to be one of the country's largest
events of its kind.
New
Jersey Folk Festival
April festival at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ. Site includes info.
for the festival's songwriter's contest.
Newport
Folk Festival
Newport, RI. August 12 & 13. Legendary for its oceanside setting and single
huge stage, Newport seems to launch a star every year.
Northeast Texas Americana
Music Festival
A November festival with songwriter-singer performances, song writing workshops,
song writing contests, dances, and music played all over historic Winnsboro,
Texas.
Oklahoma
International Bluegrass Festival
The last weekend in September in Guthrie, OK. This festival attests to the unprecedented
spread of bluegrass around the world, with acts from six different European
countries. There's also a good unofficial
site.
Old
Settlers Music Festival
April 2000 festival at new location in Dripping Springs, Texas (west of Austin):
Leftover Salmon, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Peter Rowan, Claire Lynch, Karl
Shifflet & Big Country, Smokin' Grass, and more.
Old Songs
This end of June festival in Altamont, NY will celebrate its 20th year in 2000,
with a special tribute to British singer Peter Bellamy. Many real workshops
and in-depth historical presentations.
Oregon Festival of American Music' (OFAM)
Eugene, OR. A non-profit concert event venue with three concert halls that features
folk, rock, jazz and classical music. If people make it, it's folk music, right?
Philadelphia
Folk Festival
Schwenksville, PA. August 27-29. One of the country's biggest festivals, Philly
caps the festival season like a fireworks finale. This year:
Planet Bluegrass
- Rocky Grass Festival
Lyons, CO, July 28-30, 2000.
Portsmouth
Maritime Folk Festival
Portsmouth, NH. Late September. Presenting music, song, and stories that have
a common thread with the sea. This city-wide festival features singers, musicians
and storytellers from the United Kingdom, New England and beyond.
River
City Folk
A small traditional oriented festival in Omaha, NE.
Rocky
Mountain Folks Festival
Lyons, CO August 18-20, 2000. Tenth Annual festival has come into its own with
widely respected Troubadour competition.
Santa
Fe Trails Bluegrass Festival
Mid May festival near Kansas City, MO - near the start of the famed trail.
Smithsonian
Folklife Festival
A respected, serious festival, last week of June, first week of July in Wash.
DC.
South
Florida Folk Festival
FL Jan 13-14. Known for its songwriter contest.
Telluride
Bluegrass Festival
Telluride, CO. June 15-18, 2000. Gorgeous setting, great acts.
Turtle
Hill Folk Festival
Rochester, NY.
Upper
Merion Concerts Under the Stars,
King of Prussia PA OK, so it's not a festival - but this outdoor summer series
(May-Sept) feels like one. Always an excellent lineup of singersongwriters.
In 2000: Steve Forbert, Cheryl Wheeler, Bill Miller, Richard Shindell, Lucy
Kaplansky & more.
Washington Irish Festival
Memorial Day Weekend.
Wild Iris Folk Festival
Boonville, California
Wildflower!
Arts & Music Festival
This festival occurs toward the end of April in Richardson, TX. It includes
folk among other types of music.
Winfield/Walnut
Valley Festival
This Winfield, KS Festival is known for its instrumentalist contests in flatpick
& fingerstyle guitar, autoharp, banjo and other categories. Site lists/links
all acts and contest winners - plus This
year's line-up.
World
Music Festival Chicago '99
Chicago, IL, Sept 21-30. A new city-wide festival involving dozens of downtown
venues, including the Old Town School of Folk Music.
English
Folk Festivals Newsletter
All the festivals in the British Isles are covered in one site.
Dranouter
Folkfestival
Belgium. Takes place in August
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Edinburgh, Scotland. During 3 weeks in August, this event - the worlds largest
arts festival according to Guinness Book of Records - boasts over 16,000 performances
in 200 venues. Much music.
Governor's General Independence Concert Series
Nassau, Bahamas. Celebrating American and Bahamian independence. Classical slant.
Jacob's
Ladder Folk Festival
Israel's only folk festival, now held in May features American-style folk, including
songwriters and bluegrass, as well as Israeli and European folk.
Lorient
Festival
A largely Celtic festival held in western France in August.
Global Music Festival
Hundreds of artists around the world performed in over 160 events in 40 countries
in March 2004 to help children living with HIV/AIDS.
Ontario
Council of Folk Festivals
Ontario Canada is home to over twenty folk festivals, including Owen Sound's
Summerfolk and the Mariposa Festival in Toronto. The council is an outstanding
arts advocate.
Rudolstadt
Tanz & Folk Festival
Held in Rudolstadt, this July festival presents a world-class line-up of folk
and world music, from Celtic (De Dannan) and Brazilian to Jack Hardy and Cephas
& Wiggins. Site is part of city's tourism site.
Tenterden
Folk Festival
October festival in Tenterden, England.
Vancouver
Folk Festival - Official Site
Vancouver, BC, Canada, July. One of the great festivals. Huge, eclectic, first
rate folk from around the world. Oh, and did I mention fun & beautiful...
Vancouver
Folk Festival 2001 - by About's Vancouver Guide
The 24th annual festival in late July featured a wide array of artists. This
34 page article is the next best thing to having been there. Check out the artists,
take advantage of the links, browse the photos.
Hugh Blumenfeld, Editor
hugh@balladtree.com
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