# 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. As at folk festivals, such art and handicraft may also appear at historical reenactments and events such as Renaissance fairs.

## Africa
### South Africa

Misty Waters Music Festival

## Asia
### Bangladesh

* Dhaka International Folk Fest

### India

* Gavari - Sacred Dance Drama Festival

### Israel

* Jacob's Ladder

## Europe

* Europeade (held each year in a different European country)

### Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Ilidža Folk Music Festival
* Ilidža International Children's Folklore Festival

### Belgium

* Boombal Festival

### Bulgaria

Stara planina fest Balkan folk

### Denmark

* Tønder Festival

### Estonia

* Viljandi Folk Festival

### Finland

* Kaustinen Folk Music Festival

### France

* Festival Interceltique de Lorient
* Rencontres Internationales de Luthiers et Maîtres-Sonneurs

### Germany

Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"

### Greece

Kerasovo Festival, Ioannina

### Ireland

* Temple Bar TradFest

### Lithuania

* Kaziuko mugė, Vilnius
* Mėnuo Juodaragis, Zarasai
* Parbėg laivelis, Klaipėda

### Netherlands

* Castlefest
* Worldfestival Parade Brunssum

### Russia

* Empty Hills, Kaluga Oblast
* Grushinsky festival, near Samara

### Spain

* Interceltic Festival of Avilés
* Interceltic Festival of Morrazo
* Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World

### United Kingdom

* 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
### Honduras

* Encuentro Folklórico Nacional El Grande de Grandes

### Canada

* 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)
* Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival (St. John's)
* 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
#### Alaska

* Alaska Folk Festival

#### Arizona

* Tucson Folk Festival

#### California

* Big Sur Folk Festival
* Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

#### District of Columbia

* Smithsonian Folklife Festival

#### Florida

* Florida Folk Festival

#### Illinois

Fox Valley Folk Music And Storytelling Festival

#### Indiana

* Feast of the Hunters' Moon

#### Maine

* American Folk Festival

#### Massachusetts

* Lowell Folk Festival
* New England Folk Festival

#### Montana

* Montana Folk Festival

#### New Jersey

* New Jersey Folk Festival

#### New York

* Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
* Old Songs Festival

#### North Carolina

* Folkmoot USA

#### North Dakota

* Norsk Høstfest

#### Oklahoma

* Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

#### Oregon

* Sisters Folk Festival

#### Pennsylvania

* Flood City Music Festival
* Philadelphia Folk Festival
* Pittsburgh Folk Festival

#### Rhode Island

* Newport Folk Festival

#### Tennessee

* The Americana Folk Festival

#### Texas

* Kerrville Folk Festival

#### Traveling

* National Folk Festival

#### Washington

* Northwest Folklife

#### Wisconsin

* Great River Folk Fest
* Holiday Folk Fair
* Mile of Music

## Oceania
### Australia

* National Folk Festival
* Woodford Folk Festival

### 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