American Folk Festival

Not to be confused with The Americana Folk Festival.
A dancer with Nadia Dieudonne & Feet of Rhythm performs at the American Folk Festival in Bangor, Maine in 2009.

The American Folk Festival is an annual folk festival held during August at Waterfront Park in Bangor, Maine. Founded in 2005, the festival is free and has an open admittance policy. A 2008 study showed that the festival brought in a total of 9.8 million dollars of tourism revenue to the city of Bangor.[1]

In November 2019 the organizers of the festival announced they had the dissolved the organization and 2019 was the last time the American Folk Festival would be held[2]

  1. ^ Liz Stark (2009). "The Business of Culture Community-building through the National Folk Festival". NEA Arts. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011.
  2. ^ "American Folk Festival dissolves organization, will hold no future events". November 26, 2019.