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The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a three-day festival of folk music
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 that has been held annually in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania

Schwenksville is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,693 at the 2000 census. It is notable for being located near the site of the Philadelphia Folk Festival....
 in the vicinity of Philadelphia by the non-profit Philadelphia Folksong Society
Philadelphia Folksong Society

Philadelphia Folksong Society is a not for profit educational organization dedicated to the encouragement, dissemination, enjoyment of folk music and related expressions of folklore, the sponsoring of research, education, therapeutic programs and related publications....
 since 1962. Gene Shay
Gene Shay

Gene Shay is a representative of Philadelphia's folk music scene. He has produced weekly folk radio shows since 1962 . A founder of the annual Philadelphia Folk Festival and its emcee since its inception, he has been called the "The dean of American folk DJs" by The Philadelphia Daily News and "The Grandfather of Philadelphia Folk Music" by...
 has for the entire history of the festival been the Master of Ceremonies, and continues to be a personality of folk music on the East Coast, hosting the long-running Sunday night folk show on WXPN (88.5 FM). The Folk Festival grounds were originally on Wilson Farm in Paoli, Pennsylvania
Paoli, Pennsylvania

Paoli is a census-designated place located in Chester County, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. It is situated in portions of three townships: Easttown Township, Pennsylvania, Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania and Willistown Township, Pennsylvania....
.

Held the third weekend in August, this folk festival attracts more than five thousand campers for the weekend and ten thousand day-tripper
Day-tripper

A day-tripper is a person who visits a tourist destination or visitor attraction from their home and returns home on the same day....
s who share, join together, and perform the myriad forms of music one expects (and with many surprises) of a music festival.






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The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a three-day festival of folk music
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 that has been held annually in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania

Schwenksville is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,693 at the 2000 census. It is notable for being located near the site of the Philadelphia Folk Festival....
 in the vicinity of Philadelphia by the non-profit Philadelphia Folksong Society
Philadelphia Folksong Society

Philadelphia Folksong Society is a not for profit educational organization dedicated to the encouragement, dissemination, enjoyment of folk music and related expressions of folklore, the sponsoring of research, education, therapeutic programs and related publications....
 since 1962. Gene Shay
Gene Shay

Gene Shay is a representative of Philadelphia's folk music scene. He has produced weekly folk radio shows since 1962 . A founder of the annual Philadelphia Folk Festival and its emcee since its inception, he has been called the "The dean of American folk DJs" by The Philadelphia Daily News and "The Grandfather of Philadelphia Folk Music" by...
 has for the entire history of the festival been the Master of Ceremonies, and continues to be a personality of folk music on the East Coast, hosting the long-running Sunday night folk show on WXPN (88.5 FM). The Folk Festival grounds were originally on Wilson Farm in Paoli, Pennsylvania
Paoli, Pennsylvania

Paoli is a census-designated place located in Chester County, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. It is situated in portions of three townships: Easttown Township, Pennsylvania, Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania and Willistown Township, Pennsylvania....
.

Held the third weekend in August, this folk festival attracts more than five thousand campers for the weekend and ten thousand day-tripper
Day-tripper

A day-tripper is a person who visits a tourist destination or visitor attraction from their home and returns home on the same day....
s who share, join together, and perform the myriad forms of music one expects (and with many surprises) of a music festival. People travel across the country to return to this annual event so that they can play again. The Philadelphia Folk Festival is almost completely volunteer-run and organized.

It is now located on the Old Pool farm on Clemmers Mill Road in Upper Salford Township. Hundreds of people turn to the Perkiomen Creek for swimming and other events during the show.

Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon is an United States film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, A Few Good Men , Stir of Echoes, Queens Logic, Wild Things, JFK , Murder in the First, Apollo 13 , Mystic River, The Woodsman, Footloose, Friday the 13th , Diner , and Balto ....
 has attended the festival around 2004/2005

See also

  • Newport Folk Festival
    Newport Folk Festival

    The Newport Folk Festival is an Music of the United States annual folk music-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959....


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