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North Carolina Folk Festival
Greensboro, NC · Music
- When
- September 18–20, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Greensboro · Greensboro · NC
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
North Carolina's largest free music festival fills multiple outdoor stages in downtown Greensboro with three days of bluegrass, gospel, blues, Indigenous, and Latin American musical traditions. It grew out of the National Folk Festival's three-year run in Greensboro from 2015 to 2017, and the 2026 edition is headlined by The Roots.
The history within reach
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