To advance and preserve folk arts representing national, local and ethnic customs as they exist throughout the United States of America; to promote and encourage the exchange of folk dance and dance related to folklore in the USA and abroad and to effectively network those who support these objectives.

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  • 2025 Pourparler Conference

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    Fox Haven Farm 3630 Poffenberger Rd, Jefferson, MD, United States
    Pourparler is a get together or parley for teachers of folk/traditional dance in schools and communities. The extended weekend includes discussion, networking, and sharing teaching tips along with live music, singing and dancing. Pourparler 2025 - Oct 23-26 in Jefferson,…

  • 2026 NFO Conference

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    Old Murphey School 3717 Murphy School Road, Durham, NC, United States
    2026 NFO Conference in Durham, North Carolina! This year’s conference will have everything you’ve come to expect from NFO – a broad array of fascinating workshops, presentations, music and dance, our annual membership meeting and elections – and a wonderful opportunity…

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National Folk Organization of the United States of America

Our Mission: Provide resources, networking, programming, and education in order to encourage respect for cultural traditions through research, preservation, advancement, and dissemination of information. We support all folk dance and folk arts advocates in furthering these goals.

Our  Vision: Promote advancement and sharing of cultural traditions in order to keep them alive as treasures for the world.

Our Values:

Synergy: NFO fosters connections and mutual awareness to strengthen community involvement in cultural traditions.

Respect: NFO respects cultural traditions and the people that create and practice them.

Diversity: NFO supports a wide range of viewpoints and practices pertaining to cultural traditions.

Education: NFO believes that obtaining knowledge relating to cultural traditions is essential to their practice and preservation.

Curiosity: NFO encourages everyone to be curious about cultural traditions, and to approach such traditions with the goal of appreciative inquiry.

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