Philadelphia Folk Festival

Philadelphia Folk Festival
Genre	Folk, Country, Blues, Folk rock
Dates	four days on the third week of August
Location(s)	Upper Salford Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Years active	1962-2022
Founders	Kenneth S. Goldstein, Bob Siegel, Gene Shay, David Baskin, Esther Halprin, et al
Website	www.folkfest.org

The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a folk music festival held annually at Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.^[1]

The four-night, three-day festival is produced and run by the non-profit Philadelphia Folksong Society and staffed almost entirely by volunteers.^[2]

The event hosts contemporary and traditional artists in genres under the umbrella of Folk, including World/Fusion, Celtic, Singer/Songwriter, Folk Rock, Country, Klezmer, Blues, Bluegrass, Hip/Hop, Spoken Word, Storytelling, and Dance.

Each year the event hosts over 35,000 visitors and nearly 7,000 campers at the Old Pool Farm.^[3] The event presents over 75 hours of music with local, regional, and national talent on its stages.

The Festival is one of the longest-running folk music festivals in the United States, since it began in 1962.^{[citation needed]}