September 20-22, 2024
Salisbury, MD
Join us for the Maryland Folk Festival on the historic Eastern Shore
Make your plans now to join us in Salisbury, Maryland, for the second year of the Maryland Folk Festival. The Maryland Folk Festival follows Salisbury’s tenure of 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 Maryland Folk Festival celebrates the roots, richness and variety of American culture. It features about 250 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 and more.
Best of all, it’s FREE!
Here are some of the Maryland Traditions Folklife Area Demonstrators:
- Anchor Wood Creations: reclaimed and salvaged wood design, Berlin, MD
- Angela Smithhisler: fiber processing and art, Newark, MD
- Bruce Eppard: decoy carving, Royal Oak, MD
- David Bruning: aquaculture / oystering, Chincoteague Bay, MD
- Eric Clark Jackson: regional batik, Leonardtown, MD
- George “BeeGeorge” Meyer: beekeeping, Worton, MD
- Pocomoke Indian Nation: Indigenous traditions, Delmarva Peninsula
- Shanye Huang: Chinese painted paper cutting, Silver Spring, MD
- Trisha Gupta: Rajasthani Woodblock Design and Fabric Printing, Burtonsville, MD
For the full festival schedule and more information, head to https://mdfolkfest.com/
September 20-22, 2024
Salisbury, MD
Join us for the Maryland Folk Festival on the historic Eastern Shore
Make your plans now to join us in Salisbury, Maryland, for the second year of the Maryland Folk Festival. The Maryland Folk Festival follows Salisbury’s tenure of 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 Maryland Folk Festival celebrates the roots, richness and variety of American culture. It features about 250 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 and more.
Best of all, it’s FREE!
Here are some of the Maryland Traditions Folklife Area Demonstrators:
- Anchor Wood Creations: reclaimed and salvaged wood design, Berlin, MD
- Angela Smithhisler: fiber processing and art, Newark, MD
- Bruce Eppard: decoy carving, Royal Oak, MD
- David Bruning: aquaculture / oystering, Chincoteague Bay, MD
- Eric Clark Jackson: regional batik, Leonardtown, MD
- George “BeeGeorge” Meyer: beekeeping, Worton, MD
- Pocomoke Indian Nation: Indigenous traditions, Delmarva Peninsula
- Shanye Huang: Chinese painted paper cutting, Silver Spring, MD
- Trisha Gupta: Rajasthani Woodblock Design and Fabric Printing, Burtonsville, MD
For the full festival schedule and more information, head to https://mdfolkfest.com/
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Event Categories: Arts & Culture, Events, and Free