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- New_England_Folk_Festival abstract "The New England Folk Festival is an annual weekend festival of traditional dance and music. It takes place in the Boston, Massachusetts region each spring. It is conducted by the New England Folk Festival Association. Both the festival and the association are colloquially known by the abbreviation NEFFA. NEFFA is a participatory festival; attendees are encouraged to participate in dancing, singing, musical jam sessions, and other activities. It is run by volunteers and all the performers are volunteers as well.The festival and the association has introduced thousands of New England and Massachusetts residents to the varied communities of traditional social and folk dance and folk music for more than 60 years, especially celebrating the living traditions of folk music and dance traditional to New England. Numerous New England folk dance callers, leaders and musicians have had formative experiences at the festival, and in turn have inspired and influenced thousands more through their performances, workshops, and enthusiastic participation. The festival has been influential in sustaining and reviving numerous folk dance traditions in New England.As a social dance festival, it is a community experience, the largest in New England of its kind, with about 5,000 combined admissions in the festival's four session periods. It is the inspiration for other similar traditional dance and music festivals throughout the United States and North America. For contra dance and folk dance leaders from New England and the United States, the festival has been an annual opportunity to perform, share experiences, insights, and further living traditions. The association also conducts a weekly contra dance series in Concord, Massachusetts. The NEFFA festival was founded in 1944, long before several more famous folk festivals, such as the Philadelphia Folk Festival (1962) and the Newport Folk Festival (1959). In recent decades, NEFFA has been influential as a model for dance and music festivals in New England, and nationally, including upstate New York's Dance Flurry (founded 1988) and Maine's Down East Country Festival (founded 1991).".
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- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageExternalLink bio.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageExternalLink www.neffa.org.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageExternalLink decdf.
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- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageRevisionID "701961970".
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Belmont,_Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Boston.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Boston_Garden.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Brockton,_Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge,_Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Category:Contra_dance.
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- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Category:Folk_festivals_in_the_United_States.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Category:Social_dance.
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- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Concord,_Massachusetts.
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- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Lowell,_Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Manchester,_New_Hampshire.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Mansfield,_Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Morris_dance.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Natick,_Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Natick_High_School.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink New_England.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink New_Hampshire.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Newport_Folk_Festival.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink North_Kingstown,_Rhode_Island.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia_Folk_Festival.
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- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink Worcester,_Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink YWCA.
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- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLink File:ContraDanceCambridgeVFW.agr.jpg.
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLinkText "New England Folk Festival Association".
- New_England_Folk_Festival wikiPageWikiLinkText "New England Folk Festival".
- New_England_Folk_Festival subject Category:Contra_dance.
- New_England_Folk_Festival subject Category:Festivals_in_Boston,_Massachusetts.
- New_England_Folk_Festival subject Category:Folk_festivals_in_the_United_States.
- New_England_Folk_Festival subject Category:Social_dance.
- New_England_Folk_Festival subject Category:Square_dance.
- New_England_Folk_Festival hypernym Festival.
- New_England_Folk_Festival type Event.
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- New_England_Folk_Festival comment "The New England Folk Festival is an annual weekend festival of traditional dance and music. It takes place in the Boston, Massachusetts region each spring. It is conducted by the New England Folk Festival Association. Both the festival and the association are colloquially known by the abbreviation NEFFA. NEFFA is a participatory festival; attendees are encouraged to participate in dancing, singing, musical jam sessions, and other activities.".
- New_England_Folk_Festival label "New England Folk Festival".
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- New_England_Folk_Festival wasDerivedFrom New_England_Folk_Festival?oldid=701961970.
- New_England_Folk_Festival isPrimaryTopicOf New_England_Folk_Festival.