Scandinavian Folk Festival
Now in its 23rd year, this two-day downtown festival brings Nordic artisans, traditional Scandinavian food, folk performers, fiddlers, Viking reenactors, and a public fika experience to a small North Dakota city deeply rooted in Norwegian and Swedish settlement.
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"The inaugural successor to the legendary Norsk Hostfest, this new two-day Nordic heritage festival at the Minot Municipal Auditorium carries forward decades of Scandinavian community tradition with two stages of entertainment, food, artisan crafts and educational programming."
Fjord Folk Fest
"A five-day traditional county fair anchoring the small Red River Valley town of Lisbon, gathering farm families from across Ransom County for livestock shows, 4-H exhibits and community celebration."
Ransom County Fair
"A uniquely North Dakotan one-crop festival celebrating the state fruit with chokecherry-inspired foods, family activities and live entertainment rooted firmly in the culture of the northern plains."
ND Chokecherry Festival
"Jamestown's frontier heritage celebration centers on its identity as Buffalo City, marking the town's pioneer past with parades, live entertainment and family traditions anchored by the world's largest buffalo statue."
Buffalo Days
"Open to the public, this once-in-a-generation Norwegian immigrant heritage gathering in tiny Rolette marks the 50th anniversary of the 1976 reunion with the ceremonial opening of a buried time capsule and the unveiling of a pioneer family sculpture at Westland Cemetery."
Rolette Pioneer Families Reunion 2026
"North Dakota's largest country music and camping festival, staged on the prairie at the Morton County Fairgrounds in tiny New Salem, drawing nationally known performers to a genuine small-town setting each July."
ND Country Fest
"Billed as the world's oldest and largest old-time music and bluegrass competition, the Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention has gathered mountain musicians at Felts Park since 1935, drawing competitors and campers from across the country."
Old Fiddlers' Convention
"Known as the Teepee Capital of the World, the Crow Fair is one of the largest Native American gatherings in North America, held on the Crow Reservation with powwow dancing, a rodeo, parades, and an encampment of thousands of teepees."
Crow Fair
"An all-day street fair and live music festival filling Main Street in the charming small town of Bristol, Addison County, with local acts, vendors, and community celebration in the shadow of the Green Mountains."
Pocock Rocks Music Festival and Street Fair
"In the tiny Czech hamlet of Praha, founded by Moravian and Bohemian immigrants in the 1850s, Mass is celebrated in a historic Czech-style church on August 15 each year, followed by traditional Czech food and Texas Czech bands playing for outdoor dancing."
Praha Assumption Festival
"An intimate two-day celebration of traditional fiddle and folk music set in the tiny Genesee Valley hamlet of Mumford, drawing acoustic musicians and dancers from across upstate New York."
Fiddle and Folk Festival
"A family-friendly lakeside festival on the shores of Lake Cumberland bringing top local, regional, and national bluegrass acts to the small county seat of Russell Springs every third weekend of August."
Lake Cumberland Bluegrass Festival