Uptown Butte
Uptown Butte, Montana, sits in the nation's largest National Historic Landmark District, and every July it becomes the Montana Folk Festival's six stage ground, from the Original Stage on the historic Original Mineyard site to a dedicated dance pavilion and family stage. The festival runs Friday through Sunday, with nearly 30 food vendors serving everything from Cornish Pasties to huckleberry smoothies.
Before you go
- Capacity
- Six stages across the festival site
- Indoor or outdoor
- Mostly outdoor, open air and tented stages ranging from intimate to amphitheater sized
- Official site
- montanafolkfestival.com
- Next festival here
- Montana Folk Festival, Jul 9 to 11, 2027
Worth knowing before you go
- The Original Stage looks out over Butte's historic high rise buildings and a mining headframe.
- Performance spaces range from intimate stages to amphitheater sized venues, open air and tented.
- The food courts lean into the region's immigrant history: Cornish Pasties, Sarma and Povitica alongside funnel cakes and huckleberry smoothies.
Festivals here
Venue basics: Six stages, open air and tented · Runs Friday through Sunday · Original Stage sits on a historic mining site.
Is it for you
Choose it if
- you want a folk and roots lineup across several stages in one historic mining district
- you are curious about Butte's immigrant food traditions
Getting there and parking
Festival-specific · Montana Folk FestivalThe festival runs Friday through Sunday in Uptown Butte.
Accessibility
We don't yet have confirmed information about accessibility at Uptown Butte. The venue's own pages are the place to check: montanafolkfestival.com.
Camping
We don't yet have confirmed information about camping at Uptown Butte. The venue's own pages are the place to check: montanafolkfestival.com.
Food, water and what you can bring
Festival-specific · Montana Folk FestivalNearly 30 food and beverage vendors serve regional, ethnic and festival food tied to the people who settled the Butte area, including Pork Chop sandwiches, Sarma, Povitica and Cornish Pasties, alongside funnel cakes, hot dogs, pizza, kettle corn, fresh squeezed lemonade and huckleberry smoothies.
A little history
The Montana Folk Festival began in 2011, after three years as the National Folk Festival from 2008 to 2010. It is staged in Uptown Butte, inside the nation's largest National Historic Landmark District, surrounded by the city's iconic mining headframes.
The festival uses six stages, including a dance pavilion dedicated to participatory dancing, a family stage and a Montana folklife stage, plus two festival marketplaces and the Festival Food Courts. The Original Stage sits on the historic Original Mineyard site, with a panoramic view of Butte's historic high rise buildings and a dramatic headframe left from the city's days as an underground copper mining center.