The National Folk Festival is a festival celebrating Australian folk culture, first held in Melbourne in 1967. From 1969 until 1991 the festival traveled to different cities each year. It was hosted at least once in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, Fremantle, Alice Springs, Perth and Maleny.
The increasing size of the festival was making it harder for the hosting states to organise the festival every year, so since 1992 the festival has been held in Canberra. However each year a state is 'featured' which entitles it to a proportionally larger number of entertainers, and discounted tickets for entry. Held for 5 days over the Easter long weekend in Exhibition Park on the outskirts of Canberra, the 'National', as it is known, attracts thousands of people of all ages from across Australia.
