A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

. 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 A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, Ritual, ritual dances or dances of ritual origin are not considered to be folk dances. Ritual dances ...

or ethnic foods.

Handicraft A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid material ...

ing 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 A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising f ...

or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art (or, fine arts) is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from popular art, decorative art or applied art, which also either serve some practical function (such as ...

, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic, and is often sold at festivals by tradespeople or practicing amateurs.West, Shearer (general editor), ''The Bullfinch Guide to Art History'', page 440, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, 1996. 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,

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* Mėnuo Juodaragis, Zarasai * Parbėg laivelis,

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Netherlands

* Castlefest * Worldfestival Parade Brunssum

Russia

* Empty Hills,

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* Grushinsky festival, near

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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) * Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival * 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

New England Folk Festival The New England Folk Festival is an annual weekend festival of traditional dance and music. It takes place in the Boston, Massachusetts region each spring. It is conducted by the New England Folk Festival Association. Both the festival and the ...

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 The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a folk music festival held annually at Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. The four-night, three-day festival is produced and run by the non-profit Philadelphia Folkson ...

* Pittsburgh Folk Festival

Rhode Island

* Newport Folk Festival

Tennessee

* The Americana Folk Festival

Texas

* Kerrville Folk Festival

Traveling

* National Folk Festival

Washington

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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

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; run by Dunedin's New Edinburgh Folk Club