[1][2][3] The festival includes one of the largest contra dances in the U.S., as well as other types of traditional folk dance and music, and draws over 5000 attendees and 400 performers every year.

[4] It was first held in 1988 and is run by the nonprofit DanceFlurry Organization.

[4] The festival includes a wide variety of traditional folk dance and music, as well as impromptu musical jam sessions, discussions, and craft sales.

In recent years, it has featured more than 250 different sessions per year from Friday through Sunday of Presidents' Day weekend.

Other dance offerings include swing, Latin, English country, square, clogging, hip-hop, cajun, zydeco, Irish, Scandinavian, Middle Eastern, Asian, and yoga.