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What's Happening at the Festival
There are big changes afoot for this year's Festival. We're changing the weekend, the location, the format, and the prices! Keep reading!
New Date
The 2012 Festival will be held on the first weekend in June instead of the third weekend. This avoids conflicts with other events and enables us to be the kickoff event of Albuquerque's summer music season. So be sure to reserve June 1st and 2nd for the full Folk Festival experience.
New Location
We are moving the Festival from Expo to the Albuquerque Balloon Museum (two blocks south, but totally separate from the Balloon Fiesta Park).
New Format
The 2012 Festival will be a CAMPING EVENT and, therefore, a DESTINATION FESTIVAL for attendees from beyond Albuquerque and the Southwest. This will also enhance the PARTICIPATORY nature of our Festival as reflected in our mission statement.
The 2012 Festival will be reduced from two days to ONE day, but it will actually be a WEEKEND EVENT by including camping and campground jamming. The official Festival will be all day Saturday, June 2, at the Balloon Museum Site but camping will extend from Friday at 4:00 pm until Sunday at noon. Headliner band(s) will be expected to commit to a Friday evening "jam with the band" in the campground.
Get your instruments out of the closet!
A closet instrument is a musical instrument nobody plays. It sits in the closet year after year while an aspiring musician longs for an instrument to play.
Help the festival and help other musicians by donating your closet instruments. We'll do our best to get those instruments into hands that will use them!
Volunteers wanted!
Want to help out with the festival? With all of the changes that we're planning, we need your help more than ever! We are a completely volunteer organization. If you enjoy the festival and want to support what we are trying to do for the folk music, folk arts and dance community of Albuquerque, come join us! For further information and to get on our distribution list, email .
Donations wanted!
The festival is a labor of love...but we still have expenses. Any amount will help us make this the best AFF ever! The Albuquerque Folk Festival is a 501(c)(3) organization, so your contributions are fully tax-deductible. Please visit our Donations page to see how you can help the festival.
Thanks to all our sponsors and volunteers!
Thanks to all our volunteers who are helping put on this community gathering. Whether you are a performer, a workshop teacher, a dance demonstrator, a tireless volunteer, an active participant or a fascinated viewer, we thank you all. We couldn't have this successful event if it were not for every one of you and the part you play in making a community event like this come to fruition.
This project is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and a grant from the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund of the City of Albuquerque. We also offer our heartfelt thanks to Mayor Richard Berry and the City of Albuquerque and NMArts for their support, as well as to KUNM for broadcasting live from the festival Saturday morning, and many more that you can find on our Supporters page.