Lowell Folk Festival
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Dates | Last full weekend of July annually |
Location(s) | Lowell, Massachusetts, United States |
Years active | 1990–2019; 2022–[1] |
The Lowell Folk Festival is the longest-running,[2] and second-largest, free folk festival in the United States. Only Seattle's Northwest Folklife is larger, both in attendance and number of performance stages.[citation needed] It is made up of three days of traditional music, dance, craft demonstrations, street parades, dance parties, and ethnic foods. All of this is presented on six outdoor stages throughout the city of Lowell, Massachusetts.
It is one of many festivals in the U.S. that originated from the National Folk Festival. Lowell hosted the event from 1987 to 1989, and the locals continued this festival starting in 1990.[1] The festival is held from Friday through Sunday on the last full weekend of July each year, and is presented by the Lowell Festival Foundation,Lowell National Historical Park, the National Council for the Traditional Arts, the City of Lowell, the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, Greater Lowell Community Foundation, and the Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce.[3]
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the 34th festival to be cancelled. The 2021 festival was also cancelled, but returned July 29–31, 2022 and July 28–30, 2023. The next festival is scheduled for July 26–28, 2024.
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External links
- Official website
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- Leader Bank Pavilion
- Cape Cod Melody Tent
- Fenway Park
- Gillette Stadium
- Hatch Memorial Shell
- Xfinity Center
- Academy of Music Theatre
- Berklee Performance Center
- Brighton Music Hall
- Boston Opera House
- Boston Symphony Hall
- The Center for Arts in Natick
- Club Passim
- UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center
- Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts
- House of Blues Boston (Kenmore Square)
- Iron Horse Music Hall
- Jordan Hall
- Lowell Memorial Auditorium
- MGM Music Hall at Fenway
- The Middle East
- Narrows Center for the Arts
- Orpheum Theatre
- P.A.'s Lounge
- Paradise Rock Club
- Paramount Theater
- The Royale
- The Sinclair
- Shubert Theatre
- Somerville Theatre
- South Mountain Concert Hall
- Springfield Symphony Hall
- Tanglewood
- Wang Theatre
- Wilbur Theatre
- Worcester Palladium
- Lowell Folk Festival
- New England Folk Festival
- Boston Garden
- Boston Music Hall
- Boston Opera House
- Boston Tea Party
- Cape Cod Coliseum
- The Channel
- Colonial Theatre
- Concert Hall
- Fenway Theatre
- Foxboro Stadium
- Harpers Ferry
- House of Blues (Harvard Square)
- Izzy Ort's Bar & Grille
- Matthews Arena
- Melodeon
- Modern Theatre
- Nameless Coffeehouse
- Psychedelic Supermarket
- Rathskeller
- The Schoolhouse
- Storyville
- The Underground
- Wollaston Theatre
- Worcester Memorial Auditorium
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