It’s that time of the week again. The weekly festival update of what’s going on around you this weekend.  Sing Out! provides an international listing of folk music festivals and camps, which can be found at https://www.singout.org/fests.html. But here’s a sampling of some upcoming events that are worth checking out:

In Oklahoma City, the Arts Council of Oklahoma city presents the Festival of the Arts. This festival is a community celebration of the performing, visual, and culinary arts that’s going on all this week. The Arts Council Website claims the festival is “Oklahoma City’s rite of Spring. So come on out if you’re in the area and check out over 144 visual art exhibits, non-stop music on four separate stages, and even enjoy some of the diverse cuisine from “International Row.” For more information please visit: http://www.artscouncilokc.com/festival-of-the-arts . Also, check out a video:

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If you’re a little further south, down in Louisiana, you might want stop on in to the Festival International De Louisiane. A festival that “celebrates both our diversity and the common human experience that binds us together,” this festival has some 2000 volunteers each year to help coordinate the event. According to their website, “The annual 5-day festival is held during the last full week of April. Historic downtown Lafayette, Louisiana, is transformed into an entertainment complex featuring six music stages, food court areas, street musicians and animators, arts and crafts boutiques, art galleries, beverage stands, cultural workshops, international cooking demonstrations and a world music store.” If you’re interested in finding out more information, please visit the event page at: http://www.festivalinternational.com/site.php

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Shooting over to the opposite end of the globe, taking place this weekend is the FolkWorld Fairbridge Festival. Fairbridge is Western Australia’s most visited annual festival, attracting “crowds of around 5,000” each year, the website boasts. The festival is “a friendly celebration of folk, roots, blues, acoustic, celtic, a capella and world music in a traffic-free, self-contained bushland site at Fairbridge Village.” For more information, please visit: http://folkworldfestival.com.au/wp/?page_id=305

Also, if you’ve had the chance to read our previous Festivals post, we must mention that the famed Houston International is still going on all throughout the end of the week and through weekend. If you’re in the greater Houston Area, be sure to check it out! Here are some photos from earlier on this week:

Minature Cristo Redentor in Houston (Photo from Instagram user @trillugram) Brazillian dancers flooded the streets (Photo from Instagram user @la_fatalle)

— Jesse McHugh