Calgary Folk Music Festival

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

July 24-27, 2025

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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.

Our CFMF holiday ticket sale is on now!

It's your Sanity Clause this holiday season — our 2025 Calgary Folk Music Festival holiday sale is here! Treat yourself and your loved ones to the ultimate stocking stuffer and lock in last year's earlybird prices for 4-day festival passes to next year's festival!

Yule easily be the favourite child in the family this holiday season when you snag your summertime sunshine passes to the 46th annual Calgary Folk Fest, this coming July 24–27, 2025, powered by ATB. Start plotting out your tarp now folkies, we'll be back on the island in two shakes of a cow's tail!

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Proudly green

Did you know: in 2023 we diverted 70% of all festival waste from landfills? The Calgary Folk Music Festival has been dedicated to creating a green and eco-friendly festival for decades, and our incredible eco-crew are on the frontlines and helping us redefine our goals for the next five years.⁠ Environmental sustainability is a pillar of the Folk Festival Society of Calgary. Let's do everything we can to lighten our footprint in 2024!⁠ We are thrilled to be partnering with our friends at Routine Natural Beauty for our eco program! Stay tuned for more details.

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

Thank you volunteers!

Looking back at another great festival, we wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to all our volunteers. We truly couldn’t do this without you, thank you for making the festival what it is. Looking to join our volunteer crew next year? We're always recruiting!

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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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