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Lowell Folk Festival

Lowell, MA · Music

When

July 23–25, 2027

Where

Downtown Lowell National Historical Park · Lowell · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

The Lowell Folk Festival has filled Downtown Lowell National Historical Park with free traditional music, dance, crafts, and ethnic food every summer since 1990, after three years as the touring National Folk Festival's Lowell stop. Multiple outdoor stages run performances from Friday evening through Sunday. It remains one of the largest free folk festivals in the United States.

The history within reach

• Lowell Folk Festivalsame spot

  The Lowell Folk Festival has filled Downtown Lowell National Historical Park with free traditional music, dance, crafts, and ethnic food every summer since 1990, after three years as the touring National Folk Festival's Lowell stop.

• The American Textile History Museum, which closed and shipped its archive to Cornell0.6 mi

  Caroline Stevens Rogers started this museum in North Andover in 1960 as the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, and it later moved to Lowell to sit among the mills it explained.

• The Whistler House, where James McNeill Whistler was born0.8 mi

  James McNeill Whistler was born in this Worthen Street house in 1834, while his father worked as an engineer on the Lowell canals.

• St. Patrick's Church, built for Lowell's Irish mill workers0.8 mi

  The parish was founded in 1831 for the Irish labourers who dug Lowell's canals and then went into its mills, which makes it one of the oldest Catholic parishes north of Boston.

• A Guastavino tile dome on a Lowell side street0.9 mi

  The Spanish immigrant builders Rafael Guastavino and his son patented the interlocking tile vault that holds up the reading room of the Boston Public Library and the ceiling of Grand Central's oyster bar.