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List of folk festivals

Summary

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.

Inuit dance near Nome, Alaska, in 1900

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

Africa edit

South Africa edit

Misty Waters Music Festival

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Bangladesh edit

  • Dhaka International Folk Fest

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Israel edit

  • Jacob's Ladder[2]

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Dancers on the Europeade 2015 in Helsingborg in Sweden.
  • Europeade (held each year in a different European country)

Bosnia and Herzegovina edit

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Stara planina fest Balkan folk[4]

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Festival Interceltique de Lorient

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Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"

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Experimental neofolk act Rome performing on the Mėnuo Juodaragis Big stage in 2013

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The 2004 Interceltic Festival of Avilés in Asturias, Spain

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Fox Valley Folk Music And Storytelling Festival

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References edit

 
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  1. ^ West, Shearer (general editor), The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, page 440, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, 1996. ISBN 0-8212-2137-X
  2. ^ Harman, Danna (19 April 2013). "Jacobs Ladder, the Friendly 'Festival for Everyone". TheMarker – via Haaretz.
  3. ^ "English - Boombalfestival". Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  4. ^ "BALKAN FOLK FESTIVAL". BALKAN FOLK FESTIVAL.
  5. ^ "KAUSTINEN FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL". KAUSTINEN FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL.
  6. ^ "El Grande de Grandes". Ballet Folklórico de Honduras Oro Lenca. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  7. ^ Gisler, Margaret (2004). "Feast of the Hunters' Moon". Fun with the Family Indiana (5th ed.). Globe Pequot. pp. 177–178. ISBN 978-0-7627-2978-4.

Further reading edit

  • Coffin, Tristam P.; Cohen, Hennig, (editors), Folklore in America; tales, songs, superstitions, proverbs, riddles, games, folk drama and folk festivals, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1966. Selections from the Journal of American folklore. Cf. chapter on "Folk Drama and Folk Festival", pp. 195–225,

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