Greensboro has been chosen to host the National Folk Festival for a three-year stay in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The National Folk Festival is the nation’s longest-running traditional arts event, a three-day, free outdoor multicultural celebration of music, dance and traditional arts which historically draws as many as 150,000 attendees by the third year of its residency, along with an economic impact of $15 to $30 million a year. The traveling festival’s three-year stay is designed to lay the groundwork for a locally produced festival that continues after the festival moves on. The National Council for the Traditional Arts selected Greensboro from a field of 32 American cities. When the National Folk Festival debuts in Greensboro in 2015, it will be celebrating its 75th anniversary.