Calgary Folk Music Festival

Join us July 24–27, 2025 for a four-day family-friendly cultural and musical extravaganza with over 70 artists, food vendors, an arts market, family zone and much more.

Full lineup reveal in April

Your 2025 artist leak is here!

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Your early lineup

Sierra Ferrell

Elisapie

Patrick Watson

Ruby Waters

Los Lobos

Katie Tupper

Yasmin Williams

Emily Wurramara

CAKE

The Calgary Folk Fest returns July 24-27, 2025

The Calgary Folk Music Festival is one of Canada’s flagship, trailblazing music festivals. It's been held annually since 1980 at the beautiful Prince’s Island Park in Calgary, Alberta.

Our broad, cutting-edge programming boasts 70+ artists from near and far playing on seven stages in concerts and collaborative sessions featuring everything from folk to funk to global sounds and fresh hip hop.

Your 2025 artist leak has arrived, featuring performances by: Sierra Ferrell, Cake, Patrick Watson, Los Lobos, Ruby Waters, Elisapie, Emily Wurramara, Yasmin Williams and Katie Tupper. Full lineup reveal coming this April!

Proudly green

Did you know the CFMF eco initiatives crew has been diverting upwards of 70% of all event-generated waste annually since the early 2010's with the help of volunteer education and sorting? Moving forward we are striving to implement processes that eliminate post-disposal sorting while achieving similar results, as we direct our programming towards stewardship and education.

In addition, the CFMF's ongoing partnership with eco initiatives sponsor Routine Natural Beauty underpins our growing dedication to sustainable consumption, supporting local businesses, and advancing a circular economy.

In the press

Cowboy Junkies, Booker T. Jones, Ben Howard, Billie Marten announced for Calgary Folk Music Festival

CALGARY HERALD

Calgary Folk Music Festival Gets Ben Howard, Booker T. Jones, Cowboy Junkies for 2024 Edition

EXCLAIM!

2024 Calgary Folk Music Festival lineup unveiled

CTV Calgary

Calgary Folk Fest lineup announced, The Roots among those set to headline

CBC

Our volunteer team is recruiting soon!

A new festival is on the horizon, and we need your help! Returning volunteers will receive an email in early March with instructions on how to confirm themselves for 2025. Have any family or friends that would like to join the volunteer family? Let them know our new volunteer applications open March 10, and we're always looking for fresh, new faces.

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Past Festivals

It’s a genre-bending affair that cleverly unites roots, world and indie icons and upstarts from around the globe. Some marquee artists the Festival has programmed include:

David Byrne • Digable Planets • Nathaniel Rateliffe • Emmylou Harris • Spoon • Belle & Sebastian • Sheila E. • Joe Jackson • Blue Rodeo • St. Vincent • Alabama Shakes • Blue Rodeo • Elvis Costello • Alison Krauss and Union Station • Fishbone • The Avett Brothers • Gillian Welch • Neko Case • k.d. lang • Chris Isaak • Feist • José González • Kris Kristofferson • Rhiannon Giddens • The Mavericks • Steve Earle • Lucinda Williams • The Halluci Nation + many more.

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