Festival

Join the NEFFA Annual General Meeting in person at the Festival or online via livestream. We especially welcome new and renewing members. The AGM is the perfect time to meet some members of the NEFFA Board, provide your feedback, and get your questions answered. Register now if you’re planning to attend online!

Check out our maps and Festival site web pages! You can plan your trip to the Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center, and you can start picturing all the fun things that are going to happen in all the spaces at the Festival venue. Printed maps will be on hand at the Festival, but take

Purchase your All-Festival tickets by midnight Tuesday, April 22!   As an Advance Ticket purchaser, you get the best Festival check-in process! Arriving at the Festival, look for the “Advance Tickets” sign in the Festival Lobby, which is located in the Trade Center. There’s no need for you to wait in line behind people who are

Become a full partner in the ongoing celebration that is the New England Folk Festival! Your financial and volunteer support, through good times and hard times, has been NEFFA’s secret of success for eighty-one years. Donors to NEFFA support all of our activities – grants, Thursday Night Contras, Ralph Page Weekend, and of course, the

Best Western offers a breakfast buffet at Zachary’s, hot & cold concessions in the lobby, & theirrestaurant All Stars offers both food & drink. There is the Sundries Shop next to the front deskthat is open 24/7. Food trucks will be at the Trade Center with a few options inside this year aswell. Food Trucks

Even if you cannot come to NEFFA, the Festival will come to you! Registration is now open for the Festival livestream from the Seminar Room. Register now at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/j8FN2yNNQCSrP01msRZxPw  for a personalized link to the Zoom meeting that will run throughout the Festival. This will be the same link for all three days. Seminar Room concerts

The Festival Lobby (where you’ll find the Ticket table, Volunteer Check-in, Performer Check-in, Membership and more) is located in the TRADE CENTER this year, not the Hotel lobby.  If you attended the Festival last year or the year before, don’t go on auto-pilot – there’s a new process for checking in!  You will NOT be

Carry a searchable Festival grid in your pocket with our mobile schedule at mobile.neffa.org! Available for web, phone, and tablet, you can search, select, and save events to build a personalized schedule for your own NEFFA experience. You can even use the QR code on the printed Festival grid for easy access, and there is

There is no direct public transportation to the Festival site from Boston or the surrounding towns. MBTA Commuter Rail’s closest approach to the Festival is the Southborough or Framingham station, both on the FRAMINGHAM/WORCESTER line. If you fly into Boston, the Framingham Logan Express goes from the airport to the Framingham Logan Express Terminal in

The 2025 NEFFA Marketplace has grown more than 20% between 2024 and 2025! Check out all the new vendors on our webpage: https://www.neffa.org/festival-marketplace/  The layout is still being finalized because we are working closely with Sound to make the Marketplace quieter, with the addition of more sound deadening curtains. Here are some unique businesses that