The Americana Folk Festival
- The Americana Folk Festival
The Americana Folk Festival (AFF) is a grassroots art and music event held at Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee (right outside Nashville.) The event focuses on folk music as it relates to various genres, particularly jazz, Americana, blues, and rock. Held every second weekend of October, audience members bring lawn chairs and sweaters while being treated to multiple stages of music, workshops, and an arts village full of outsider and folk art. While the event is only a one-day festival, featured music artists are allowed to stay within the private site all weekend for songwriting and relaxation.
The event was founded in 2004 and continues to grow as one of the leading grass-roots music festivals in the South.
""The masterminds behind the Americana Folk Festival have conceived a truly utopian, nostalgic vision. Gather a group of quality artists—many of them singer-songwriters, but not all necessarily working within the folk idiom—on a spacious, wooded plot of land deep inside Montgomery Bell State Park, about an hour outside of Nashville. Encourage communal picking parties by providing the artists with lodging for an entire weekend. Make the experience even more earthy and tactile by creating an Arts Village alcove for artisans to display their handmade wares. Then invite fans of well-crafted songs to stake out a spot on the grass and plant their lawn chairs for the duration...not bad for a Saturday in the park." (--Paste Magazine)"
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