National Folk Festival in Salisbury MD- Tremé Brass Band

A Great American Festival Comes to Maryland’s Historic Eastern Shore

Make your plans now to join us in Salisbury, Maryland, for the National Folk Festival—one of America’s largest, most prestigious and longest-running celebrations of arts, culture, and heritage.

A free, large-scale three-day outdoor event, the National Folk Festival celebrates the roots, richness and variety of American culture. It features over 350 of the nation’s finest traditional musicians, dancers, craftspeople and other keepers of culture in performances, workshops, and demonstrations, plus children’s activities, savory regional and ethnic cuisines and craft brews, non-stop participatory dancing, storytelling, parades, and more.

Best of all, it’s FREE!

Salisbury, Capital of the Eastern Shore

In choosing Salisbury, as the National Folk Festival Host City for 2018, 2019 and 2020 (postponed until 2021), the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA), creator and producer of the National Folk Festival since its founding in 1934, recognized Salisbury’s and the region’s unique cultural assets and strong community spirit. The Festival will conclude its residency in Maryland in downtown Salisbury on August 26-28, 2022, where it will celebrate its 81st year.