The American Folk Festival is an annual

folk festival A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods. Handicraf ...

held during August at Waterfront Park in

Bangor, Maine Bangor ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Penobscot County. The city proper has a population of 31,753, making it the state's 3rd-largest settlement, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121). Modern Bangor ...

. 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. 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

References

External links

Official Website of the American Folk Festival
Folk festivals in the United States {{Music-festival-stub