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Eleanor Roosevelt was involved in the National's move to Washington, D.C. in 1938, and served as the festival's honorary Chair. This traveling festival has been held in 28 communities around the country. [http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/news-text-winter2002.html . In many cases, after the National has moved on to other sites, the locality continues having a folk festival of its own. For example, the Lowell Folk Festival was started this way.
Then it went to cities of New York, Philadelphia, and Cleveland.
Oklahoma City and Nashville followed, and then the festival returned to Washington, D.C., in 1960. The National Folk Festival struggled through the 1960s, never staying in one place for more than a year. It was held in various places such as Florence and Covington, Kentucky ; St. Petersburg, Florida ; Denver, Colorado ; Syracuse, New York ; Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; and Knoxville, Tennessee .
2005 FESTIVAL ACTS The 2005 festival includes (Sunday Only), No Speed Limit , Carter Family Band featuring Dale Jett , Linda Lay , David Lay , and Deborah Jean Sheets , White Top Mountain Band , Crooked Road Band , The Round Knob Singers , Kirk Sutphin and Sammy Shelor , plus dancers Brenda Joyce and Shannon Joyce. These artists join Cephas & Wiggins (Piedmont blues), The Paschall Brothers (African American a cappella gospel), Mariachi Los Camperos De Nati Cano (Mexican Mariachi ), Mountain Heart ( Bluegrass ), Los Pleneros De La 21 (Puerto Rican Bomba Y Plena ), Khmer Classical Dance Ensemble (Cambodian) and Frank London 's Klezmer Brass Allstars (Jewish Klezmer ), The Madison Hummingbirds (African American gospel brass Shout Band ); J. P. Cormier (Cape Breton Fiddle r), Hayden Thompson & The Rhythm Rockers (Rockabilly, Dervish (Irish), The Savoy Family Band (Cajun) and Zydeco Joe and the Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulez Band ( Zydec o)completing the list of performing artists at the 67th National Folk Festival. 2006 ACTS 2006 NFF was held October 13-15, 2006 and attracted nearly 100,000 attendees.[http://www.nationalfolkfestival.com/] Performers included Chuck Brown , the "Godfather of Go-Go "; the Skatalites , the group that virtually invented Ska and whose members are considered founders of the modern Jamaica sound; and the Mahotella Queens , an acclaimed South Africa Mbaqanga ensemble. [http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835426626&path=%21flair&s=1045855936229]. The Richmond Times Dispatch announced a month prior to the festival that Mahotella Queens would not be performing. Other announced artists were:
"Gulf Coast Musical Traditions" segment was added later and featured traditions affected by Hurricane Katrina and are as follows: Three additional acts were announced less thn a month before the festival and include {Link without Title} AltaiKAI ( Kai Throat Singers from The Altai Republic Russia) , Grace Chang (Chinese Zither ), Jamesie & The All-Stars ( Scratch , aka Quelbe music from the island of St. Croix ) and Williams And Summerour ( Warner Williams And Jay Summerour , playing Piedmont Blues ). 2007 ACTS The 2006 NFF ( 69th National Folk Festival ) will be held October 12-14, 2007. Festival organizers announced June 19 the first of more than 25 performing groups expected to play at this year’s National Folk Festival, Richmond.com and Richmond Times-Dispatch made this announcement with 24 hours of each other to include:
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