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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.
Folk festivals are an important part of American community life. For the American people, popular folk festivals are important events composed of complex folklore phenomena. [1] Folk festivals are generally used to celebrate folk music and traditional folk crafts, and some folk festivals are embodied in the form of dance and art.
National Folk Festival (United States) National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest; New England Folk Festival; New Jersey Folk Festival; Newport Folk Festival; Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1968) Northwest Folklife
"The prestigious National Folk Festival is the nation’s longest-running traditional arts event, a free, three-day, outdoor multicultural celebration of music, dance, and traditional arts," the ...
National Folk Festival (United States), touring national folk festival in the United States This page was last edited on 15 March 2013, at 00:00 (UTC). Text is ...
The Maryland Folk Festival is scheduled for Sept. 20-22 in Salisbury and is free and billed as a family-friendly event. ... After serving as the host of the National Folk Festival for five years, ...
This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
The Newport Folk Festival was cofounded in 1959 by jazz promoter George Wein and music manager Albert Grossman. (The latter is best known for representing Dylan between 1962 and 1970.)