Daily News | Philadelphia Folk Festival is back as an in-person event this weekend for the first time since 2019
The Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford Township will be back in action this weekend as a music venue for the first time in three years.
In 2020, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person Folk Festival was canceled. But the fest carried on as a digital-only event with livestream performances. It also opened its archives with video clips from its illustrious past when acts like Mississippi John Hurt, Bonnie Raitt and Fairport Convention were regulars and the Folk Fest was held in similarly high regard with iconic gatherings like the Newport Folk Festival.
However, last year - shortly after the 2021 in-person fest was cancelled - the PFS received a grant of $869,254that offered relief to music and arts venues nationwide that were forced out of business in the early pre-vaccine days of the pandemic. There will be music on seven stages, kicking off Thursday with its traditional campers only concert, this year headlined by Scottish instrumental trio Talisk.
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