Purchase your All-Festival tickets by midnight Tuesday, April 16th!   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. There’s no need for you to wait in line behind people who are purchasing tickets. Be amazed by the smoothness […]

While NEFFA is not in a position to facilitate rooms or official arrangements, we have set up a spreadsheet where folks looking for roommates may be able to connect with people looking for a place to stay. Hopefully it will be a helpful tool for those who want to attend the Festival.  In this spreadsheet,

MBTA Commuter Rail’s closest approach to the Festival is Southborough and Framingham, both on the FRAMINGHAM/WORCESTER line. Once you get to the station, NEFFA has teamed up with Lyft to provide discounted rides to the Festival site. The NEFFA discount code for 2024 is NEFFA24. Ahead of time, enter this in the Lyft app: Go

Our Marketplace in the Trade Center presents an internationally diverse group of vendors, including craftspeople showing their own work, organizations that provide services to the folk music, dance, and song community, and commercial vendors with products of special interest to the folk community. The Marketplace opens as soon as the Festival doors open at 9am,

Dear NEFFA Community, NEFFA is a volunteer festival. With just a few exceptions, everything that you see was set up by, run by and will be taken away by our stalwart volunteers. NEFFA needs you! Even if you are able to pay for the full festival, even if you only have a couple of hours

Large print grids are available in the Lobby and at the Information Table, both in the Hotel. Please contact Information if you need assistance with access to a program or activity. The entire site is accessible by wheelchair. Accessible parking is available at the Festival site in front of the Hotel and the Trade Center.

We understand that the venue for this year’s NEFFA Festival, the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center in Marlborough, is not easily accessible except by car. NEFFA is not in a position to facilitate rides or set up official carpools, but we have set up a spreadsheet where folks needing rides may be

Get your questions answered in one place with our Festival FAQ! Have a question we haven’t answered yet? Write to us at festivalinfo@neffa.org and we’ll be glad to add it to the FAQ.