A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods. Handicrafting has long been exhibited at such events and festival-like gatherings, as it has its roots in the rural crafts. Like folk art, handicraft output often has cultural, political, and/or religious significance. Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic, and is often sold at festivals by tradespeople or practicing amateurs. As at folk festivals, such art and handicraft may also appear at historical reenactments and events such as Renaissance fairs. Asia Bangladesh Dhaka International Folk Fest India Gavari - Sacred Dance Drama Festival Israel Jacob's Ladder Europe Europeade (held each year in a different European country) Bosnia and Herzegovina Ilidža Folk Music Festival Ilidža International Children's Folklore Festival Belgium Boombal Festival Bulgaria Stara planina fest Balkan folk Denmark Tønder Festival Estonia Viljandi Folk Festival Finland Kaustinen Folk Music Festival France Festival Interceltique de Lorient Rencontres Internationales de Luthiers et Maîtres-Sonneurs Germany Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World" Ireland Temple Bar TradFest Lithuania Kaziuko mugė, Vilnius Mėnuo Juodaragis, Zarasai Parbėg laivelis, Klaipeda Netherlands Castlefest Russia Empty Hills, Kaluga Oblast Grushinsky festival, near Samara Spain Interceltic Festival of Avilés Interceltic Festival of Morrazo Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World United Kingdom Beverley Folk Festival Cambridge Folk Festival Celtic Connections England's Medieval Festival Edinburgh Folk Festival Fairport's Cropredy Convention FolkEast Festival The Green Man Festival Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival Shetland Folk Festival Shrewsbury Folk Festival Sidmouth Folk Festival Soma Festival Wickham Festival Wimborne Folk Festival North America Honduras Encuentro Folklórico Nacional El Grande de Grandes Canada Calgary Folk Music Festival Canmore Folk Music Festival Edmonton Folk Music Festival Winnipeg Folk Festival (Birds Hill) Celtic Colours (Cape Breton) Stan Rogers Folk Festival (Canso) CityFolkFestival (Ottawa) Emerald Music Festival Hillside Festival (Guelph) Home County Folk Festival (London) Mariposa Folk Festival (Orillia) Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music (Cambridge) Northern Lights Festival Boréal (Sudbury) Red Rock Folk Festival (Red Rock) Regina Folk Festival Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival (Owen Sound) TD Canada Trust Sunfest (London) United States Alaska Alaska Folk Festival California Big Sur Folk Festival Hardly