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The National Folk Festival (known also as the National) was first presented in St. Louis in 1934, the National Folk Festival is the oldest multi-cultural traditional arts celebration in the nation and the first event of national stature to put the arts of many nations, races and languages into the same event on an equal footing. Some of the artists presented at the first festival are now legendary and the recordings and other documentation made possible by the National are precious. W.C. Handy’s first performance on a desegregated stage was at the 1938 National. It was the first event of national stature to present the blues, Cajun music, a polka band, a Tex-Mex conjunto, a Sacred Harp ensemble, Peking opera, and others.

The English word Folk is derived from a Germanic noun *fulka meaning “people” or “army” (i.e. a crowd as opposed to “a people” in a more abstract sense of clan or tribe). The English word folk has cognates in most of the other Germanic languages. Folk may be a Germanic root that is unique to the Germanic languages, although Latin vulgus, “the common people”, has been suggested as a possible cognate.

Because Volk is the generic German word for “people” in the ethnic sense today as well as for “people entitled to vote” (Wahlvolk), its use does not necessarily denote any particular political views in post-1945 Germany. However, because of its past, the word is rarely used with Bevölkerung ("population") serving as a substitute. “Wir sind das Volk!” ("We are the people!") was a chant used by the Monday demonstrators during the peaceful demonstrations of 1989/1990 to end the DDR and bring down the Berlin Wall.

Folk is derived from word folc which means “ common people” , tribe or men. this word itself come from proto-germanic “fulka which perhaps originally referred to a “host of warriors”. Compare Old Norse folk meaning “people” but more so “army” or “detachment”, German Gefolge ("host"), and Lithuanian pulkas meaning “crowd”. The latter is considered to be an early Lithuanian loanword from Germanic origin, cf. Belarusian полк - połk meaning regiment and German Pulk for a group of persons standing together.

The National Folk Festival is the name of several festivals that celebrate the folk music of a particular nation.

* The Touring National Folk Festival in the US National Folk Festival (USA)
* The National Folk Festival in Canberra, Australia National Folk Festival (Australia)
* Several Folk Festivals in the UK National Folk Festival (UK)

serval festivals are celebrated in every region and they are called their folk festivals , in every region there are different ways to celebrate it and have different food and ways for it

flok festivals are celebrated all over the worl and peploe have lot of affliation with them and have specialy rituals etc

The National Folk Festival, “The National” or “The Nash” is a five-day festival celebrating Australian folk culture, held each year on the Easter long weekend at Exhibition Park in Canberra.

festivals are celebrated all over the world its always interesting to learn about every place