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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.West, Shearer (general editor), The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, page 440, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, 1996. {{ISBN|0-8212-2137-X}} As at folk festivals, such art and handicraft may also appear at historical reenactments and events such as Renaissance fairs.

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Africa

= South Africa =

[https://lakeumuzi.co.za/misty-waters-music-festival Misty Waters Music Festival]

Asia

= Bangladesh =

  • [https://beautifulbangladesh.gov.bd/district-event/dhaka/events/83 Dhaka International Folk Fest]

=India=

=Israel=

  • Jacob's Ladder{{cite journal|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/jacob-s-ladder-the-friendly-festival-for-everyone.premium-1.516389|title=Jacobs Ladder, the Friendly 'Festival for Everyone|first=Danna|last=Harman|journal=TheMarker |date=19 April 2013|via=Haaretz}}

Europe

File:Europeade 2015 dans 04.jpg 2015 in Helsingborg in Sweden.]]

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

=Bosnia and Herzegovina=

=Belgium=

  • Boombal Festival{{cite web|url=http://www.boombalfestival.be/english/|title=English - Boombalfestival|access-date=19 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005191504/http://www.boombalfestival.be/english/|archive-date=5 October 2016|url-status=dead}}

=Bulgaria=

Stara planina fest Balkan folk{{cite web|url=https://eaff.eu/|title=BALKAN FOLK FESTIVAL|website=BALKAN FOLK FESTIVAL}}

= Denmark=

=Estonia=

= Finland=

=France=

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=Germany=

Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World"

=Greece=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ad7Nb6RTPw Kerasovo Festival, Ioannina]

=Ireland=

=Lithuania=

File:Rome (band).JPG act Rome performing on the Mėnuo Juodaragis Big stage in 2013]]

= Netherlands=

  • Castlefest
  • [https://www.paradebrunssum.nl/nl/ Worldfestival Parade Brunssum]

= Russia=

= Spain=

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=United Kingdom=

North America

=Honduras=

=Canada=

= United States=

==Alaska==

==Arizona==

==California==

==District of Columbia==

==Florida==

==Illinois==

Fox Valley Folk Music And Storytelling Festival

==Indiana==

  • Feast of the Hunters' Moon{{Cite book|title=Fun with the Family Indiana|edition=5th |author= Gisler, Margaret |pages=177–178|chapter=Feast of the Hunters’ Moon |publisher=Globe Pequot |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7627-2978-4 }}

==Maine==

==Massachusetts==

==Montana==

==New Jersey==

==New York==

==North Carolina==

==North Dakota==

==Oklahoma==

==Oregon==

==Pennsylvania==

==Rhode Island==

==Tennessee==

==Texas==

==Traveling==

==Washington==

==Wisconsin==

Oceania

=Australia=

=New Zealand=

References

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Further reading

  • 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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