18 - 20 foreign Folklore groups can participate in the festival.
Open Air festival with about 650 participants and about 35000 visitors
Yearly organised festival in week 31.

Led by Laura Shannon, Peter Vallance, and Neda, Mitra and Lyubimka Bisserov

You will spend a really unforgettable time enjoying the hospitality of Bulgarian people and will be moved by the beautiful nature and ancient traditions of Bulgarian village life. As well as singing and dancing lessons, we will visit sacred sites all over Bulgaria, join one or two Folk Festivals and enjoy life together with local people.

The 9th National Sabor (Festival) of Bulgarian Folklore Art is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Koprivshtitsa Municipality, with the cooperation of the District Administration of Sofia District, Bulgarian National Television, Bulgarian National Radio, and other Ministries, departments and organizations.

The National Sabor in Koprivshtitsa, most closely connected with the movement for preserving and promoting the Bulgarian folklore, will be held on 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th of August 2005.

In the area of Voyvodenets one will be able to see the variety of genres and extraordinary richness of Bulgarian folklore heritage. This year will be the first time to be presented the Bulgarian traditional trades and their original products.

At the festival will take part singers players, dancers, legend-tellers, instrumentalists, vocal groups, dance groups, and folklore customs groups, all of them performing authentic Bulgarian folklore.

This festival is organized for about 10 000 performers of Bulgarian authentic folklore, not only Bulgariaan citizens, but also Bulgarians living abroad, as well as foreign performers of Bulgarian folklore.