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Fact #185038

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Promoter Jean Thomas stages the first American Folk Song Festival, at Four Mile Fork Of Garner, on the Mayo Trail fifteen miles south of Ashland, Kentucky, USA. The event features eighteen acts but, by 1938, it will feature 42 acts playing to an audience of 20,000.