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Bristol - day tickets available
Day tickets go on sale - £30 (Sat), £35 (Sun) and £40 (Mon) and concessions. Organisers have announced three award-nominated names to add to the already vibrant line-up – Derbyshire singer songwriter Lucy Ward, the hugely popular alt-country band aha...more
26/01/2012
Morris sides at Frome Folk Festival
More than 100 Morris dancers from three counties are due to flock to the picturesque Somerset market town of Frome for its first ever folk festival in just over three weeks time. The mass Morris meet will include members of Rag Morris (University of ...more
24/01/2012
Stacey Kent to headline the 6th Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival
The Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival returns for its sixth year set in the award winning grounds and Elizabethan Hall of Burton Agnes, East Yorkshire, YO25 4NB. Organised by the Hall’s sax-playing owner, Simon Cunliffe-Lister, the festival runs o...more
19/01/2012
Folk by the Oak is 5!
Folk by the Oak will be celebrating their 5th festival in 2012, and will once again be filling Hertfordshire’s beautiful Hatfield Park with equally beautiful folk and acoustic music. Sunday 22 July 2012 will certainly be a date for the diary, as the ...more
11/01/2012
Bearded Theory Festival 2012
Bearded Theory Festival has announced the event dates, details and headliners for its next instalment of award-winning, family-friendly fun in the heart of Derbyshire. Taking place between 18th and 20th May 2012, Bearded Theory has firmly entrenched ...more
09/01/2012
Bearded Theory Headliners announced
It's their fifth anniversary and boy, is it a great line up! The award-winning, family-friendly festival in the heart of Derbyshire takes place between 18th and 20th May 2012, Bearded Theory has firmly entrenched itself as the first ‘proper’ music fe...more
04/01/2012
Martyn Joseph headlines Bournemouth Folk Festival
Headliner Martyn Joseph is a powerful and entertaining songwriter. His songs are pictures, and stories, and feelings all put to music and delivered by a master craftsman....more
14/12/2011
Cara Dillon and Karine Polwart added to Bristol line up
Two of folk’s finest female performers will bring a burst of Celtic class to the 2nd Bristol Folk Festival next May. Both multiple award winners, Ireland’s Cara Dillon and Scotland’s Karine Polwart are among the most esteemed artists on the acoustic ...more
25/11/2011
The Gate to Southwell Folk Festival
Tickets for Southwell go on sale on line on Monday 5 December www.southwellfolkfestival.org.uk. Prices start from £69 for an adult weekend. ...more
21/11/2011
Byron Bay Blues Festival
On the world stage there are a handful of festivals that are internationally recognised as being in the premier league, Australias Byron Bay Bluesfest is one of them. The 2012 event will be the 23rd festival that regularly draws the best blues and ro...more
17/11/2011
Bearded Theory honoured in AIM awards
Big congratulations to Bearded Theory, who at the first ever Association of Independent Music Awards in London on 10 November won the 'Golden Welly' award for 'Best Independent Festival'. Bearded Theory is the Midlands largest performing and creative...more
11/11/2011
Beautiful Days tickets on sale
The dates for the tenth anniversary of Beautiful Days next year will be 17 to 19 August with gates opening on the Thursday afternoon. Tickets for are on sale now. On The Fiddle members (that's the Lev's fan club) can get £10 off an adult ticket up un...more
11/11/2011
Southwell folk Fest tickets on sale 5/12/11
Tickets for Southwell go on sale on line on Monday 5 December. Headline artists confirmed to date – Beoga, Brass Monkey, Le Vent du Nord, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Martyn Joseph, Dougie MacLean, Breabach, Melrose Quartet ( Nancy Kerr & James F...more
11/11/2011
Additions to the Frome fest line up
Hot property Jackie Oates, double BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winner, has been announced for Frome’s first folk festival next February. The in-demand fiddle singer has been steadily carving out her career since The Word described her as “an impeccable st...more
31/10/2011
WOMEX 2011
WOMEX runs on the last October weekend of every year. Starting on a Wednesday afternoon from 14:00 with early-bird registration and a sneak preview to the Trade Fair followed by the WOMEX Opening night with the first Showcases. ...more
13/10/2011
Kendal Calling wins festival award
Last night, the Lake District based festival Kendal Calling took home the Live UK music industry award for Best Small Festival - under 15,000. ...more
09/10/2011
Frome Folk Fest additions
The new frome Folk Festival is announcing headline acts for its Winter line up on 18-19 February 2012. Spiers and Boden will be headlining the Saturday night and then Steve Knightley headlining the Sunday. Other announced artists are Bella Hardy , Ka...more
07/10/2011
Shepley Spring Festival 2012
Just a quick reminder that the Summer Special earlybird prices for Shepley Spring Festival 2012 finishes at the end of September. Prices are currently £60 per adult for a full weekend ticket for all events Friday to Sunday (£30 per accompanied youth ...more
30/09/2011
London Guitar Festival in the Fall
London Guitar Festival in the Fall in the vibrant new setting of Kings Place in the heart of London, presents the complete range of guitar styles, including rock, blues, classical, flamenco, jazz, acoustic and fingerstyle....more
26/09/2011
Beverley Festival 2012
Beverley festival has announced that festival favourites Chumbawamba and Peatbog Faeries will be returning to Beverley next year. ...more
15/09/2011
Pocktoberfest
The festival is on Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th October and is taking place in a beautifully converted railway station in the heart of Pocklington. The Saturday is the traditional beer festival element with local/regional musicians performing througho...more
09/09/2011
Perthshire Amber goes Outdoor Green
The team at Perthshire Amber – The Dougie MacLean Festival is delighted to launch the new Perthshire Amber Outdoors, a programme of outdoor events and activities, which will run alongside the ever popular ten day music festival (28 October – 6 Novemb...more
01/09/2011
Frome Folk Festival 2012
Get your jumpers out, Frome in Somerset gets it's own festival in February 2012. Some top names in English folk have already been booked to appear at the winter weekend festival, which is set to take place in the historic town near Bath on Saturday, ...more
25/08/2011
Purbeck Folk Festival
Seth Lakeman headlines Purbeck Folk Festival on August Bank Holiday weekend along with Canadian urban roots band, Po’Girl and Celtic powerhouse bands KAN and Uiscedwr....more
12/08/2011
Solfest 2011 26-28 August
The Damned have specially chosen Solfest to celebrate 35 years since the release of their debut single ‘New Rose’, which landed in 1976, complimenting a stellar dance bill at one of the UK’s biggest parties. Folk songstress Kate Rusby, Dr Feelgood gu...more
10/08/2011
Moseley's only a month away!
The sixth Moseley Folk Festival is almost upon us. And if you've never been, this is the year you should make the trip to the heart of the country - the lineup really is something for everyone....more
07/08/2011
Wallingford BunkFest 2011 - Free admission!
To celebrate the Wallingford BunkFest's 10th anniversary, all events are free admission! (except river boats, vintage trains, late night festival club, Acoustic Ballroom and camping). The unique mix of 'Music, Dance, Steam and Beer' actually includes...more
07/08/2011
The second Bath Folk Festival is here!
The second Bath Folk Festival starts next Monday 8th August and will boast a huge program to get your teeth into. They have a five day Irish music summer school and every afternoon there will be workshops and dancing classes. There's a huge line up w...more
06/08/2011
Towersey gears up for a big festival
The 47th Towersey Village Festival gets underway over the August bank holiday weekend 25-29 August. The headliners include Billy Bragg, Oysterband, Cara Dillon, The Burns Unit, Spiers & Boden, Carthy & Swarbrick, Lau, The Demon Barbers.... The list g...more
05/08/2011
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