page_title: List of folk festivals
section_title: Europe
hierarchical_section_title: List of folk festivals / Europe
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Europeade i Helsingborg
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Europeade (held each year in a different European country)
caption: Dancers on the Europeade 2015 in Helsingborg in Sweden.
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