2025 Schedule

The Bellingham Folk Festival will be hosting entertaining and educational events during these hours:

  • Thursday, January 23rd

  • Friday, January 24th

  • Saturday, January 25th

  • Sunday, January 26th

During those times you can expect a combination of these entertaining and educational elements:

  • Sessions/Jams (tunes and sing-alongs, some with scheduled leaders, listeners welcome, too!)

  • Workshops (learning stuff from people, mostly tunes, some talk/lecture style offerings, descriptions below)

  • Concerts (performances, some sitting, some standing, some with festival pass, some free with tips appreciated)

  • Dances (organized and disorganized dancing to live music)

We are delighted to be collaborating once again with Fire & Story Festival!

A collection of large, unique, and artistically designed sculptural fire pits provides a stage for local storytellers, poets, artists, and folk musicians. Dispersed across the Bellingham Waterfront as lighthouses, attendees will walk between each illuminated story and engage in the rhythm of this event during the darkest days of the Pacific Northwest.

Fire & Story Festival will be featuring multimedia events around the fire which are free, open to the public, and just a ten-minute walk from the BFF events happening in Downtown Bellingham. No BFF wristband is required to attend these events.

Click here to learn more about Fire & Story


Get the App!

This schedule is hard to read and is meant for desktop users. If you have a smartphone, get the free festival app to make your experience much more pleasant!

  1. Go to the app store.

  2. Download ‘Grandstand - Events & Guides’

  3. Open the app and search for ‘Bellingham Folk Festival’

  4. It’s WAY BETTER! :D


the schedule is subject to change at any moment, without warning, for no reason…


Thursday, January 23rd



friday, January 24th


saturday, January 25th


sunday, January 26th