July 23-26, 2026

47th Annual Calgary Folk Music Festival

Prince's Island Park, 698 Eau Claire Avenue S.W.

Thursday, July 23: 5:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Friday, July 24: 3:00 p.m.-11:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 25: 10:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 26: 10:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.

2026 Schedule:
Thursday, July 23
4:00 p.m. - gates open
Mainstage
5:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Julian Taylor
Tiken Jah Fakoly
Valerie June
Of Monsters and Men

National Stage 4
5:45 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Mariel Buckley
Ruby Singh and the Future Ancestors
Killabeatmaker
The Neighborhood Kids

Friday, July 24
2:00 p.m. - gates open
3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. - concerts and collaborative sessions on 3 stages.
Mainstage
5:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m.
The East Pointers
Cochemea
SYML
Goldie
Boutilier
Thundercat

National Stage 4
6:15 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Mitsune
Adrian Younge presents Jazz Is Dead featuring Ronnie Laws, Carlos Dafé + Ala.Ni
Sahra Halgan
Daniel Romano's Outfit

Saturday, July 25
9:30 a.m. - gates open
10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. - 6 stages host concerts and collaborative sessions
Family area and artisan market in operation
Mainstage
5:30 p.m..-11:30 p.m.
S.G. Goodman
Adrian Younge presents Jazz Is Dead featuring Ronnie Laws, Carlos Dafé + Ala.Ni
Mexican Institute of Sound and The Meridian Bothers present Ruido Tovar
Madison Cunningham
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives

National Stage 4
6:15 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
YAGODY
Lola Kirke
DUG T
he Free Label

Sunday, July 26
9:30 a.m. - gates open
10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. - 6 stages host concerts and collaborative sessions
Family area and artisan market in operation
Mainstage
5:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Foxwarren
Adrian Quesada Trio
Asesino
Killer Mike
Corb Lund

Tickets:
Adult 4 Day Single-User Pass: $235
Thursday Evening: $85
Friday Evening: $85
Saturday All Day: $95
Sunday All Day: $95

Youth/Senior/Student Tickets:
Youth/Senior/Student 4 Day Pass: $170
Thursday Ticket - $55
Friday Ticket - $55
Saturday Ticket - $65
Sunday Ticket - $65
Children ages 12 and under are FREE
Advance tickets are on sale now until July 23

Also appearing: Al Qahwa, Aladean Kheroufi, Bel and Quinn, Billie Zizi, Caracol, Cedric Lightning, Chris Pierce, Christopher Gamble, The Dust Collectors, El Balcón, Eliza Mary Doyle, Fruition, The Hearts, Human Interest with Col Cseke, Jairus Sharif, Jake Vaadeland & The Sturgeon River Boys, Jennifer Castle, Jon McKiel, Katy Kirby, Laura Hickli, Maïa Davies, Medusa, Montuno, West, Pahua, Shaina Hayes, Skinny Dyck, St.Arnaud, Starpainter, Steve Dawson and The Hooded Mergansers, Susan O'Neill, Tamar Ilana & Ventanas, Tim Williams, Tinge, Tribe Artist Society, Willi Carlisle, Yasmin Williams, and more.

Celebrating 47 years of Calgary Folk Music Festival
Join in July 23–26 for a four-day family-friendly cultural and musical extravaganza with over 70 artists, food vendors, an arts market, family zone and much more.
The Calgary Folk Music Festival is one of Canada’s flagship, trailblazing music festivals. It's been held annually since 1980 at the beautiful Prince’s Island Park in Calgary, Alberta. With broad, cutting-edge programming boasting 70+ artists from near and far playing on seven stages in concerts and collaborative sessions featuring everything from folk to funk to global sounds and fresh hip hop.
From its origns as an eccentric kitchen party writ large to the major national event it has become, the Calgary Folk Music Festival embraces a singularly Canadian festival style, earning a glowing reputation for programming that welcomes music from around the corner and the globe, bringing together marquee artists, local favourites, history-makers and innovators to Calgary for a broad-ranging vision of folk with an edge, and a festival with a wry, get er done attitude.
The Globe and Mail dubbed the Festival one of the seven musical wonders of the world noting that it has the best programming of the post-folk music fests. It provides authentic, magical encounters that surprise even dedicated festival aficionados, creating once-in-a-lifetime experiences for both artists and audience members.
The programming format, lovingly referred to as a series of arranged marriages, creates rare, wonderful opportunities for artists to meet and collaborate. These collaborative sessions group disparate artists loosely by themes, encouraging them to collaborate on each others material, creating coveted once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for audiences and artists alike.
The festival stays true to its roots and has kept its Woodie Guthrie-style ethos. The festival site is likened to a small town in a big city, nestled on an island in the heart of downtown Calgary, surrounded by rivers and skyscrapers. Stepping off the concrete, you enter a serene site built lovingly by the hands of 2000 volunteers. Eco policies are second-to-none. They are leaders in our community, feeding volunteers and artists organic, locally sourced meals, composting across the site, providing water free to all patrons, and disallowing the sale of bottled water. They were recently rewarded for these efforts with A Greener Festival (UK) award.
For four days each July, a village over fifty thousand strong writes their stories on the warm summer breeze and brims with the joyous sounds of musical exploration, community and inspiration. Its an aural adventure sweet and edgy, evolving and unpredictable. Its the Calgary Folk Music Festival. Come see and hear over 70 bands from around the world.
The Calgary Folk Music Festival was founded in 1980 and is produced by the not-for-profit Folk Festival Society of Calgary. Held at Calgary's bucolic Prince s Island Park since its inception, it s one of Canada s flagship, trailblazing music festivals with a national and international profile and a broad, cutting-edge programming vision.
The annual Festival is a four-day family-friendly cultural and musical extravaganza. Some 70 artists from Alberta, Canada, and the world perform on seven daytime and two evening stages in concerts and sessions unpredictable mash-ups where artists collaborate in unique and unexpected ways, sharing songs and stories. It s a genre-bending affair that cleverly unites roots, world and indie icons and upstarts from around the globe a destination event and essential community gathering for 53,000 Calgarians and tourists.
The site boasts a family area with interactive activities and live entertainment, a Talk Tent featuring comedians and spoken word artists plus other site animations, an artisan market, global culinary delights, a record tent and tree-shaded beer garden within earshot of two stages. Its multi award-winning environment program includes recycling, composting, wind-powered energy and bicycle parking.