National Folk Festival (United States)
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Genre | Folk |
Dates | 1934 - Present |
Location(s) | United States |
Years active | 1934–present |
Founded by | National Council for the Traditional Arts |
Attendance | 175,000+[1] |
Website | www |
The National Folk Festival (NFF) is an itinerant folk festival in the United States. Since 1934, it has been run by the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) and has been presented in 26 communities around the nation.[2][1] After leaving some of these communities, the National Folk Festival has spun off several locally run folk festivals in its wake, including the Lowell Folk Festival, the Richmond Folk Festival, the American Folk Festival and the Montana Folk Festival. The most recent spin-off is the .[3] The next year of the festival will be held in Salisbury, Maryland, in 2022, the fourth year of a four-year run in Salisbury.[4][5][6]
Beginnings in St. Louis[]
The National Folk Festival in the United States (known also as the National) was founded by folklorist Sarah Gertrude Knott and first presented in St. Louis in 1934.[7] The Festival is the oldest multi-cultural traditional arts celebration in the nation and the first event of national stature to put the arts of many nations, races and languages into the same event on an equal footing. Some of the artists presented at the first festival are now legendary and the recordings and other documentation made possible by the National are precious. W.C. Handy's first performance on a desegregated stage was at the 1938 National. It was the first event of national stature to present the blues, Cajun music, a polka band, a Tex-Mex conjunto, a Sacred Harp ensemble, Peking opera, and others.
Locations[]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah "Request for Proposal for 2018 - 2020" (PDF). National Council for the Traditional Arts.
- ^ a b c "National Folk Festival History" (PDF). National Council for the Traditional Arts.
- ^ "The North Carolina Folk Festival". Arts Greensboro. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ "National Folk Festival Salisbury, MD Coming to Eastern Shore". National Folk Festival Salisbury MD | Music Festival. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ^ a b "National Folk Festival rescheduled to September 2021". 47abc. 2020-04-22. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ a b "National Folk Festival adds another year to its stay in Salisbury; event will return in 2022". Bay to Bay News. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
- ^ "A Brief history of the National Folk Festival" (PDF). National Folk Festival.
- ^ [1] NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL - June 20-22, 1997 - Dayton, Ohio at the Wayback Machine (archived October 5, 2006)
- ^ "Salisbury selected to host National Folk Festival - Salisbury Independent". Salisbury Independent. 2017-06-05. Retrieved 2017-06-11.
External links[]
- Culture of Bangor, Maine
- Folk festivals in the United States
- Culture of Richmond, Virginia
- Music festivals established in 1934
- 1934 establishments in Missouri