I am from the UK so some of the festivals I can tell you about are all in England. I can strongly recomend Whiby festival. Whitby is a town near Scarbrough. It lasts for a week and caters for dancers, musicians, storey tellers, singers and for people who like a good session. By the way it lasts for a full week!! I can also suggest Holmfirth Folk festival (Last of the summer wine country), Cleethorps and Warick folk music festival.

One international festival I can advice is the Falun folk music festival, its BRILL!!

In the year 2000 I'm planning on going to the Kaustein folk music festival as well as MUDCAT 2000!!!

Bye, Sam