1984 UChicago Folk Festival fiddle workshop

A fiddling workshop at the 1984 University of Chicago Folk Festival. (Photography by Karen Axt, PhDʼ88; Copyright 2018, The Chicago Maroon. All rights reserved. Reprinted with Permission.)
 

Folk lore

Fifty-eight years of the Folk Festival by the numbers.

21

Acts appearing at the first Folk Festival in 1961

$2

Cost of a general admission ticket in 1961

$20–55

Cost to attend both days of the 2018 festival (February 9–10)

1

Workshops on sea-shanty singing at this year’s festival:

1,300

Cookies sold to raise funds for the 40th Folk Festival

1

Times Bob Dylan auditioned for the festival

0

Times Bob Dylan was accepted