Calgary Folk Music Festival

Calgary Folk Music Festival returns July 25-28, 2024

Thank you for making the 44th annual Calgary Folk Music, powered by ATB, such a success!
See you next year!

Our 45th anniversary is going to be a BIG one! We can't wait to make more beautiful memories with you for our milestone anniversary. Stay tuned for our upcoming holiday sale in December.

Future festival dates:
2024: July 25 - 28
2025: July 24 -27
2026: July 23 - 26

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The perfect musical island escape awaits!

The annual Festival is a four-day family-friendly cultural and musical extravaganza. Featuring 70 artists from Alberta, Canada, and the world performing on five daytime and two evening stages in concerts and sessions — unpredictable mash-ups where artists collaborate in unique and unexpected ways, sharing songs and stories. It’s a destination event and essential community gathering for 53,000 Calgarians and tourists, run by 2,000 community volunteers.

Review: Sweltering heat offset by cool vibes, amazing songwriting on final day of folk fest

Artist in residence: Geneva L. Haley

Calgary Folk Music Festival's 2022-2023 artwork was created by our artist-in-residence, central Alberta illustrator and designer Geneva L. Haley. With her whimsical storytelling through illustration, Haley created a portal to an enchanting and dreamlike world on Prince's Island Park — perfectly matching the Festival's charming and adventurous spirit.

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Lucius performing on the mainstage at the Calgary Folk Music Festival

Food vendor alley at the Calgary Folk Music Festival.

Golden hour a the food vendor alley at the Calgary Folk Music Festival as attendees browse the food trucks.

Buffy Saint Marie at the Calgary Folk Music Festival.

A large crowd gives a standing ovation to a collaborative artist session at the Calgary Folk Music Festival

Artist highlights

It’s a genre-bending affair that cleverly unites roots, world and indie icons and upstarts from around the globe. Some artists the Festival has programmed include: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats, Sheila E., Joe Jackson, Alabama Shakes, k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris, Michael Kiwanuka, David Byrne, Father John Misty, Gillian Welch, Kris Kristofferson, St. Vincent, Elvis Costello, Alison Krauss and Union Station, and Lucinda Williams.

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Folk Fest volunteers smile and laugh at the 2022 Calgary Folk Fest

Thank you volunteers!

A HUGE thank you to our volunteers, whose smiling faces welcomed our folkies in and took took care of them all weekend 👏👏👏 None of this would be possible with you!

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