American Folk Festival
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TheAmerican Folk Festivalis an annualfolk festivalheld during August atWaterfront ParkinBangor, Maine.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.[1]
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[2]
References
[edit]- ^Liz Stark(2009)."The Business of Culture Community-building through the National Folk Festival".NEA Arts.Archived fromthe originalon May 24, 2011.
- ^"American Folk Festival dissolves organization, will hold no future events".November 26, 2019.
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