[3][4] The city of Orillia secured a court injunction to prevent the festival from continuing in the town limits.

In 2000, the Mariposa Folk Festival was invited back to Orillia by city councilors Tim Lauer and Don Evans.

[12] The idea for the Mariposa Folk Festival was created by Ruth McVeigh and her husband Dr. Casey Jones, after hearing a presentation by John Fisher.

Backlash from Orillia and Medonte township community members prevented the festival from continuing in its original location.

This year also featured workshops investigating instrumental styles, music of specific regions and song exchanges.

Some well known musicians came to watch the festival including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan and Jackson Browne and some of them were interested in performing.

[23] In 1976 the festival received a government grant so that they could include a special group of Indigenous performers from the prairies.

Gordon Lightfoot, Murray McLauchlan, Ian and Sylvia, and The Whiteley Brothers took the main stage on the festival's final day.

[28] The 2010 edition also featured Jason Collett and Serena Ryder, who headlined the mainstage on Friday and Saturday respectively.

[30] York acquired the Mariposa Folk Fest archives, which includes sound recordings and publicity documents, in 2007.

[38] In 1977, editors Bill Usher and Linda Page-Harpa published an anthology in celebration of the festival titled "For what time I am in this world" : stories from Mariposa.