Marketplace Vendor Applications Are Open

The Marketplace features an internationally diverse group of vendors, including craftspeople showcasing their own work, organizations offering services to the folk music, dance, and song community, and commercial vendors with products of special interest to the folk community. We are continuously seeking to increase the diversity of vendors and products in the Marketplace. If you […]

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NEFFA Invites Performers for Family Events & Activities!

NEFFA is ramping up our family events programming for 2026! We are particularly eager for applications involving family-oriented participatory events and activities – dancing, creative drama, storytelling/acting, singing, mummers’ plays, juggling, circus arts, craft demonstrations, etc. If you have ideas for performers, please pass on this invitation directly to your network and encourage them to

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NEFFA Welcomes World Music and Dance!

We are particularly eager for applications involving folk traditions underrepresented at NEFFA, especially from Asia, Africa, and South America. If you know performers in these traditions, please pass this invitation along – personal networks are always the best! New to the Festival? Check out our Festival Page for the kinds of events we look for

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Letter From the President

NEFFA activities continue year-round. You don’t have to wait until next April – you can attend a contra dance on many Thursdays at the Concord Scout House (see https://www.neffa.org/thursday-contras/), and there are many other opportunities to sing, dance, and make music all over New England. The Ralph Page Dance Event will take place in Worcester,

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Call for Photos and Video

We love to see your images of the Festival! In a week or two, we will be posting the recordings from the Seminar Room to videos.neffa.org. But there was much more happening at NEFFA! With thirteen program spaces, a marketplace, hallway jamming, and thousands of friendly faces in joyous reunion, our photographers couldn’t be everywhere.

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Festival Lost and Found

Lost a water bottle? Took the wrong jacket by mistake? Forgot your dance shoes (or maybe just one of them)? We can’t promise to find lost earrings, but we have buckets of Lost and Found items from the Hotel and the Trade Center. If you’re missing an item, or found something you meant to drop

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25.23 Thanks

Thanks for a Great Festival

Whew – we did it again! I hope everyone had a great time! Please fill out our evaluation form (available online here: https://www.neffa.org/neffa-festival-eval/ ) – we need to know what worked for you, as well as what needs improvement. It truly takes a village to raise the magical Brigadoon that is the New England Folk

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