Folk Marathon is a five days nonprofit grassroots event around the turn of the year
It is for folk / trad / world musicians, dancers and enthusiasts alike.
It takes place once a year in a European city, this time in Vienna / Austria. Neither small nor too huge, we’ll be welcoming about 300 participants, who will hopefully all spend a great time together, to party, jam, dance, share knowledge, skills, tunes and songs on a voluntary basis with each other:
Folk Marathon is a gathering rather than a “festival”, in the sense that it’s more about meeting, active participation, experiencing, experimenting rather than presenting something finished and polished.
- Of course, there will also be lots of opportunities for bands and projects to play on stage, as a concert or for dancing, in different carefully selected venues,
- but an essential part of Folk Marathon is to provide lots of space to meet, for a huge diversity of open sessions and for exchange.
- One could call it an open, communicative, creative space, a friendly (maybe a little bit utopian?) framework, celebrating togetherness as well as individualism.