Press & Media

50th Annual Press Credentials

Please note that press credentials for the 50th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival must be requested and approved in advance; no credentials will be prepared on site. You can request your credentials by emailing Lisa Schwartz, PFF Marketing Chair, at press[at]folkfest.org.

All requests must be on letterhead and requested by the company/publication that you are representing. Deadline for requests is August 1, 2011.

If you are requesting a photographer's badge, you must provide the Folk Festival with a disk of your photos after the event. 

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in our most seminal year. 

50th Annual Press Releases:

Click here for the official press release of the initial lineup (Arlo Guthrie, David Bromberg, Justin Townes Earle)

Click here for the official press release of the extended lineup (Levon Helm, Trombone Shorty)

49th Annual Press

Click the following links to go directly to web articles of press for the 49th Annual Folk Festival: