Folk Festivals in New England


Celebrate! All of the festivals listed below present a healthy amount of traditional or contemporary folk music. Most are outdoors, rain or shine, and many offer camping. Being festivals, and desiring to attract the largest possible audiences for their events, they may also support folk dance, childrens’ activities, arts & crafts and other types of music, both folk and non-folk styles.
The festivals are listed by calendar date, January to December.

Vermont

Roots on the River
June, Bellows Falls
Festival on the Green
July, Middlebury
Solar Fest
July, Tinmouth
Champlain Valley Folk Festival
August, Ferrisburgh
Valley Stage Music Festival
August, Huntington
Plymouth Folk
Labor Day Weekend, Plymouth Notch
Old-Time Fiddlers’ Contest & Festival
Sept, Barre
Roots on the Rails
Autumn festivals on a train!
Organizer located in Bellows Falls

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Folk Festival
April, Portsmouth
Meetinghouse Park Fiddle Championships
July, Hampstead
Prescott Park Folk Festival
July, Portsmouth
Great Waters Folk Festival
July, Wolfeboro
New Hampshire Folk Festival
August, Durham
Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival
Sept, Portsmouth

Massachusetts

NEFFA
April, Mansfield
Spring Dulcimer Festival
May, Cambridge
New Bedford Summerfest
July, New Bedford
Plymouth Harbor Folk Festival
July, Plymouth
Green River Music Festival
July, Greenfield
Lowell Folk Festival
July, Lowell
Salem Maritime Festival
August, Salem
Nashua River Valley Folk Festival
August, Lancaster
Bread & Roses
Labor Day, Lawrence
Boston Folk Festival
Sept, Boston
Working Waterfront Festival
Sept, New Bedford
Revels RiverSing
Sept, Cambridge
Taunton River Folk Festival
Oct, Taunton
Fiddle Hell
Nov, Groton

Maine

Maine Fiddle Fest
April, Bath
Portland Harbor Museum Maritime Fest
August, S. Portland
Shangri-La Music Festival
August, Blue Hill
American Folk Festival
August, Bangor
Sweet Chariot Folk Festival
(Producer Doug Day)
August, Swan’s Island

Connecticut

New England Fiddle Contest
June, Manchester
Mystic Sea Music Festival
June, Mystic
“Traditions”
June, New London
Connecticut Folk Festival
Sept, New Haven
Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival
Sept, Hamden
NOMAD
Nov, New Haven

Rhode Island

Rhode Island Folk Festival
May, Foster
Newport Folk Festival
August, Newport
Stone Soup Folk Festival
Sept, Pawtucket
last updated 13 August 2008
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