Portland’s Folk Festival An annual celebration of folk, Americana, and roots music in Portland, hosted by The Crystal Ballroom

Portland’s Folk Festival Breaks Down the Genre’s Walls. Acoustic in Lola’s Room, bands in the Crystal Ballroom, and your plans for the weekend—all set. For all our complaints about music streaming platforms, you could argue that they deserve a little credit for revealing the flimsiness of our once-rigid borders around music styles. The breakdown of those genre walls has been felt far beyond playlists and record collections and now ripples even deeper into the lineups of genre-specific events like the upcoming Portland’s Folk Festival.