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This journal is still in progress! The highlights of the Philadelphia Folk festival are the evening concerts, held Friday and Saturday from 7:30am to 12 midnight and Sunday from about 4 to 9:30pm. These concerts present the best performers that folk music has to offer, from a huge variety of genres. You might hear an ethnic world music group, Cuban or Puerto Rican, or Eastern European, or African, followed by a singer-songwriter like John Gorka, Greg Brown, Mary Chapin Carpenter, or Richard Thompson. There will be a Celtic group or two every year and usually a step dancer at some point, or group of them. Someone will sing Blues for a while, someone will do Zydeco, and there is usually a Cape Breto
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Note that folks that camp at festival often think that the informal concerts in the campground after the concert are the highlight of the trip.
Quick Tips:
Bring good rain gear. Sometimes it rains a bit and the show goes on.
If you want to purchase larger crafts, some of the craft booth folks will hold them for you until the end of the concert, or even the end of the festival, so you don't have to.
Dining at the fire company booth is the most cost-effective, with lots of inexpensive food. It also helps fund the local fire company, a very good cause.
Best Way To Get Around:
Your only way of getting around once you are on site is on the bottoms of your legs. Yes, your feet. If you are coming by car and staying the weekend in the campsite you will want to park and just walk all weekend. If you are coming for a day, you will park in satellite parking lots and drive in on a shuttle bus.
Note that if you can't walk, all is not lost. Handicapped parking is on-site, and there's good access to a place to sit for the concert ensure that handicapped patrons can attend the Folk Festival.
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