North Carolina Folk Festival

The North Carolina Folk Festival honors, celebrates, and shares the meaningful ways in which communities express their creativity and cultural traditions through music, dance, food, crafts and other folk arts to enhance appreciation of diverse traditions and contribute to community vibrancy and inclusivity. Our signature annual Fall festival is a celebration of the finest folk and traditional musicians, dancers, craftspeople, and culture-bearers in performances, workshops, demonstrations, family activities, savory regional and ethnic cuisines and craft brews, non-stop participatory dancing, storytelling and more. This free, three-day, outdoor festival takes place each September and attracts over 150,000 people to downtown Greensboro, NC. The North Carolina Folk Festival is a spin-off event from the National Folk Festival that was hosted in a three-year residency in Greensboro from 2015-2017.