The three-day North Carolina Folk Festival returns to Greensboro Friday.
The festival kicks off with music from Greensboro-based trio The Queen Bees and a drumline from North Carolina A&T State University.
Executive Director Jodee Ruppel says this year features a new downtown footprint that should make seeing the acts easier.
“The thing I love about the Folk Festival is that it is a festival of discovery," she says. "You come to see one band or one genre of music and then you fall in love with a total 'nother genre of music that you never knew existed. It’s just so much fun.”
More than 40 acts are scheduled to perform during the free event. They include Grammy Award winners Los Lonely Boys and North Carolina-based Mipso.
Ruppel says last year’s festival was plagued by rain and still drew about 40,000 people. The weather forecast is better this year and she’s expecting bigger crowds.