Heddi Kristal

Blue Ridge Folklife Festival 2024. The annual blue ridge folklife festival is held at ferrum college in ferrum, virginia, each october. The blue ridge folklife festival is the largest regional event of its kind in virginia, and there’s nothing like it in the commonwealth.

An estimated crowd of 15,000 visitors flocked to the campus of ferrum college for the 50 th anniversary of the blue ridge folklife festival on saturday. For 49 years on the fourth saturday of october, the blue ridge folklife festival has brought.