The 2025 Albuquerque Folk Festival is scheduled for Sunday, September 28, 10am-8pm at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Mark your calendars! We are working on the 2025 programing. For now, we will leave up the 2024 programming as an example of our festival. Sign up for our newsletter to see what we're up to during the year. In the meantime, please look at our Community Resource page to see folk related events happening around Albuquerque.
Fundraising at the Festival
It costs money to put on the Festival and we're trying to keep admission prices as low as possible, so we continue to look for other sources of revenue. Of course, we gladly accept donations (see Sponsors and Donors for information on how to donate and 2025 donors for a list of this year's contributors), but we also do a couple of raffles at the Festival.
Raffle
Be sure to bring some cash to the Festival; you won't want to miss your chance to win one of these great raffle prizes.
Head to the Feedback/Raffle Table and buy (lots of) tickets. Tickets are $3 each, 4 for $10, or 10 for $20. Put your tickets in the containers for the prizes you want to win. You may put your tickets in one or more containers. For example, if you want the banjo, put all your tickets in the banjo container. If you’d like a chance at all the prizes, put one or more tickets in each container. Purchase tickets by 5:00 pm. Raffle winners will be chosen prior to the Glorieta Pines set at the Courtyard Stage at around 5:30 pm. Winners need not be present and will be notified by phone or email (please write clearly). Thanks for your support! All the proceeds provide needed funding for our non-profit Festival, and possibly an exciting, big win for you as well!
List of Raffle Items
- Tenor Banjo - Guitar Vista has once again generously offered their support to our ABQ Folk Festival community. This year, they have donated a Kay tenor banjo US model with case. Note that Guitar Vista has moved to 201 Dartmouth Dr SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
- Guitar - Guitar Vista also generously donated a Epiphone J-45 EC guitar with case.
- Quilt: Trylla Esherick has been a prolific quilter for many years and a longtime supporter of the Albuquerque Folk Festival. As our past Arts and Crafts manager, she was instrumental in bringing local craft guilds to present hands-on crafting at the festival. This quilt is a 22x26.5Ó floral framed wall hanging.
- Bird Prints & Signed Balloon Prints Ð Signed Limited Edition ÒSoaringÓ and ÒFiestaÓ Balloon Bird Prints by artist Dorothy Christoffers Newman. The original Balloon watercolors, from which the prints were made, have been displayed at Hotel Hilton and Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Museum Gift Shop.
- Balloon Jacket: New Parka for the 2024 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Size medium (but it’s big). Fleece liner. Hood. Lots of pockets. Value $175.
Feedback Drawing
You can win a t-shirt and possibly other goodies, just for giving us your opinion. We really value your feedback, and will draw a few feedback forms for prizes (assuming you've provided contact information).
