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Festivals & Gatherings

 
Month-by-month:
 
January: Portland Old Time Music Gathering
February: Oly Old-Time Festival
March: Southwest Old Time String Band Gathering
April: Greenleaf Old Time Music Festival
May: Los Angeles Old Time Social
Bluff Country Gathering
June:
Mora Valley Old-Time Campout
Mt. Airy Blue Grass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention
Stickerville
Indiana Fiddlers Gathering

July:
Rocky Mountain Old-Time Music Festival (CROMA) - cancelled indefinitely
Appalachian Stringband Festival (AKA Clifftop) - pre-festival camping
August:
Appalachian Stringband Festival (AKA Clifftop)
Old Fiddlers' Convention (Galax)
Centralia Old-Time Music Campout
White Oak Folk Fest
Golden Old-Time Campout
Santa Fe TradFest
Walnut Valley Pre-Festival Land Rush begins
September: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
Walnut Valley Festival
ABQ Folk Festival
October: Austin Stringband Festival
Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers' Festival

 

New Mexico

Albuquerque

ABQ Folk Festival
Sunday, September 28, 2025
National Hispanic Cultural Center

Mora

Mora Valley Old-Time Campout
June 20-23, 2025

Santa Fe

Santa Fe Traditional Music Festival
Santa Fe Friends of Traditional Music
Date: August 22-24, 2025
Location: Camp Stoney • 7855 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM

Neighboring states

Arizona

Southwest Old Time String Band Gathering
Thursday, March 6-9, 2025
Location: Tucson

Colorado

Rocky Mountain Old-Time Music Festival
Central Rockies Old-Time Music Association (CROMA)
We wish.

Oklahoma

Greenleaf Old Time Music Festival
April 7-12, 2025
Location: Braggs, OK

Kansas

 
Walnut Valley Festival
September 17-21, 2025
Pre-festival camping begins with Land Rush "Pre-Line-Up" - check website for details
Location: Winfield, KS

Texas

Austin Stringband Festival
Date: TBA
Location: Austin, TX
Lots of dancing at this one -- Southern Squares, Honky-Tonk, Cajun, Mexican...

And Beyond...

(in random order; see grid above for month by month timeline)

WESTERN U.S.

Idaho

Stickerville - the old-time component of the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest & Festival
Date: June 12-22, 2025
Location: Wieser, Idaho

California

Los Angeles Old Time Social
Date: may be extinct
Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
Date: September 17-21, 2025
Location: Berkeley, CA
Golden Old-Time Campout
Date: TBA
Location: Lake Sonoma, CA
Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers' Festival
Date: TBA
Goleta, CA

Oregon

Portland Old Time Music Gathering
Date: January 15-18, 2026
Location: Portland, OR

Washington

Oly Old-Time Festival
Date: February 14-16, 2025
Location: Olympia, WA

Centralia Old-Time Music Campout
Date: August 9-17, 2025
Location: Centralia, Washington (halfway between Seattle and Portland)

 

EASTERN U.S.

Appalachian Stringband Festival (AKA Clifftop)
Date: July 30- August 3, 2025 • pre-festival camping July 25-29, 2025
Location: Clifftop, WV
Old Fiddlers' Convention (Galax)
Date: August 4-9, 2025
Location: Galax, VA
Mt. Airy Blue Grass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention
Date: June 6-7, 2025 (always first weekend in June)
Location: Mt. Airy, North Carolina
 

Midwest

Bluff Country Gathering
Date: May 15-18, 2025
Lanesboro, MN

Indiana Fiddlers Gathering
Date: June 27-29, 2025
Battleground, IN

White Oak Folk Fest
Date: August 8-10, 2025
Dodgeville, WI

 

 

Here's a searchable festival guide for everywhere you might want to go, and places you didn't know you wanted to go.

 

 

 

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