2022 Original Stage at the Montana Folk Festival
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2022 Original Stage at the Montana Folk Festival
2022 Original Stage at the Montana Folk Festival
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JULY 11-13, 2025
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July 11-13, 2025

Butte, Montana

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The Montana Folk Festival

Please plan to join us in Butte, Montana on July 12-14, 2024.

The Montana Folk Festival will remain a new and exciting event each year at the same time it remains very familiar to anyone who has attended in previous years. The Montana Folk Festival will continue to feature multiple stages with continuous live performances by some of the best traditional performers in the nation, including Montana’s finest, some of the region’s best traditional artists, ethnic and festival foods, a lively Family Area, two fine traditional art markets and Folklife demonstrations and workshops that focus on a new theme each year that highlight Montana’s heritage. The event is presented in the spectacular setting of Butte, Montana surrounded by iconic headframes that evoke Butte’s underground copper mining heritage, tall buildings from the late 19th century and early 20th century, and spectacular views of the Northern Rockies in every direction.

We invite other organizations, individuals, and corporations to support the event as it moves toward its tenth presentation in 2024 (12 as the Montana, 15 counting the three years as the National Folk Festival from 2008-2010) as a tourism engine and cultural magnet that will continue to feature top national cultural acts, as well as showcase Montana’s rich heritage. The Montana Folk Festival will continue to market the natural and cultural wonders of Montana to new visitors in the middle of Montana in the middle of July. From the beginning, the goal has been to build coalitions and collaborations of arts and festival sponsors to ultimately support established summer festivals throughout Montana as well as to create a permanent base of support for the annual Montana Folk Festival in Butte.

Major Sponsors

Be sure to patronize our sponsors who make the Montana Folk Festival possible every year.

Washington-Foundation
Montana-Resources
Atlantic-Richfield-Co
SeaCast
NorthWestern-Energy
Town-Pump
Butte-Silver-Bow
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