Folk Music Festivals in England
As we are half way through the year, we've removed the earlier festivals to make it easier for you to check things in the second half of the year.
England is synonymous with folk festivals - they are among the best and most varied anywhere in the world. They often combine folk dancing and story-telling, But it's that large variety of styles that makes them so good. There are more folk music festivals in England than in the rest of the UK combined. Whether it's contempory or traditional music you love, you'll find it here.
Remember, we can't check every ticket price, unfortunately, as some are not listed until closer to the event, so we advise you to check the prices yourself.
Click on a festival name and it expands to reveal the full details (like the first one).
And if you spot that we have missed a festival, do let us know and we will update the lists as soon as possible.
EdleFest - 6th Jun 2025 - Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire
Come for the music, the local brew and the stunning location. Come for a good time!
The festival is run by volunteers, and money raised is used to improve facilities /features in the venue (the church is no longer used for worship but used by the community for events and music).
Location: Edlesborough
Date: Friday 6th June 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £17
Also available: Price is each DAY
Contact for info: edlefest@gmail.com
Website: edlefest.site123.me
County: Buckinghamshire
Country: England
St Neots Folk Festival - 6th Jun 2025 - St Neots, PE19 2BH, Cambridgeshire
Site not fully updated yet. You have to search around for info.
They always seem to leave it until closer to the event to tell you what is happening.
Ticket prices will be known in March.
Location: St Neots, PE19 2BH
Date: Friday 6th June 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA in March
Contact for info: stneotsfolkclub@aol.com
Website: www.stneotsfolkclub.co.uk/
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Wimborne Minster Folk Festival - 6th Jun 2025 - Wimborne, Dorset
A new group of Wimborne residents and business folk have come together to proceed with the mammoth task of organising the next festival, and so far it is full steam ahead with plans to continue the legendary festival!
Traditional English and Celtic music and dance. Celidhs, Dance displays, children's entertainers, Market stalls.
Three days of folk, family & fun last weekend in the summer sunshine!
Location: Wimborne
Date: Friday 6th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £75
Also available: Plus individual event tickets
Contact for info: moe@wimbornefolk.co.uk
Website: wmff.co.uk
County: Dorset
Country: England
Tangled Roots - 7th Jun 2025 - Radford Mill, Timsbury near Bath BA2 0QF, Somerset
Accoustic, Roots, Folk, Contemporary and Traditional music from around the world.
More Acts and details to come including singing, dancing and yoga workshops and a Sunday Lunch Acoustic Cafe
Location: Radford Mill, Timsbury near Bath BA2 0QF
Date: Saturday 7th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £62.5
Also available: Day tickets from £37.50
Contact for info: info@tangledrootsfestival.com / 01458 448 185
Website: tangledrootsfestival.com
County: Somerset
Country: England
Beardy Folk Festival - 12th Jun 2025 - Cleobury Mortimer, DY14 0EF, Shropshire
Beardy Folk Festival is a new, beautifully crafted, Midsummer music weekend boasting a brilliant line up of contemporary, traditional and acoustic indie folk music.
here's so much to see and do around the festival site with children's entertainment, a fabulous food court, real ale, cider and cocktail bars, circus workshops, traditional rides, climbing wall, yoga and a small trade village. We also have a woodland walk & some enchanted woods hosting children's activities and storytelling.
Location: Cleobury Mortimer, DY14 0EF
Date: Thursday 12th June 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £175
Also available: Day tickets too
Contact for info:
Website: beardyfolkfestival.co.uk
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival - 13th Jun 2025 - Falmouth, Cornwall
Has three main aims in life
To create an enjoyable event for all involved
To raise money for the RNLI
To preserve and promote the maritime heritage of Falmouth and Cornwall.
Probably the largest free nautical music and song festival in Europe!
Location: Falmouth
Date: Friday 13th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: It's Free
Contact for info:
Website: www.falmouthseashanty.co.uk
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Middlewich FAB Festival - 13th Jun 2025 - Middlewich Field, Middlewich, Cheshire
Celebrating over 30 years of the Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival a fabulous weekend of folk & roots music.
Friday is Rock n Roll night as is Saturday.
But there is a folk theme as well, waiting to be updated at the present moment. And there is an official fringe as well.
Up to 15 venues host music and dance from lunchtime on Friday through to Sunday night. On the canal-side and in the town centre, artists from around the UK - and beyond.
Location: Middlewich Field, Middlewich
Date: Friday 13th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £35
Also available: Day tickets price is shown, some free events, some individual event tickets
Contact for info: events@middlewich.org.uk
Website: middlewichfabfest.com
County: Cheshire
Country: England
St Albans Folk Festival - 13th Jun 2025 - St Albans, Hertfordshire
The main events are on the Saturday. These will consist of a day of dance in the City Centre, a day of music with free showcase performances in local pubs and other venues, sessions and singarounds and a festival concert in the Maltings Arts Theatre.
Full details not yet available.
Location: St Albans
Date: Friday 13th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: info@stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk
Website: www.stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk/
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Lymm Festival - 19th Jun 2025 - Lymm, Cheshire
There will be around 50 events taking place in the village of Lymm including dance, drama, music, comedy and literature. During the Festival, Lymm celebrates the wealth and diversity of talents to be found amongst the members of the community, and provides plenty of opportunities for exploring and enjoying the local environment.
With music of all kinds, dance, drama, spoken word, comedy, visual arts and crafts
Location: Lymm
Date: Thursday 19th June 2025 for 10 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Individual event tickets
Contact for info: info@lymmfestival.org.uk
Website: www.lymmfestival.org.uk/
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Towerfest - 19th Jun 2025 - Drax Nr Selby, YO8 8PJ, Yorkshire
Country music in Yorkshire.
We often include somoething that isn't your traditional folk festival, and country music is sort of folky. So here it is.
Location: Drax Nr Selby, YO8 8PJ
Date: Thursday 19th June 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £60
Also available: Day tickets £20
Contact for info: sales@towerfest.co.uk
Website: www.towerfest.co.uk
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Beverley Folk Festival - 20th Jun 2025 - Beverley, Yorkshire
There has been a folk festival in the beautiful market town of Beverley every year since 1983, hosting countless legendary performances by hundreds of artists, helping to create the flourishing live music scene we have in the town today, and putting our town very much on the map.
Location: Beverley
Date: Friday 20th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info:
Website: beverleyfolk.com
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Gobefest - 20th Jun 2025 - Cathedral Gardens, Manchester M4 3BG, Lancashire
NOTE THE NEW DATE !!!
Gobefest, Manchester's original urban folk music and dance festival with strong Central and Eastern European leanings, is back.
Established in 2017, Gobefest has its roots firmly in Transylvania and Hungary, but over the years has expanded its reach to cherry pick some of the finest performing artists from around the Carpathian Basin and beyond.
The weekend promises an expertly curated mix of bands and solo artists, folk dance troupes, choirs and more. Independent food and drink traders will be serving up favourites from around the Carpathian Basin, from giant pans of goulash, to the fried flat breads known as langos and Transylvanian barbecued chimney cakes.
Alongside craft beer, there will also be a Hungarian wine stall and a palinka (Hungarian fruit brandy) bar. Free activities in the family tent include music and dance workshops, storytelling and crafts.
A Gobe is a friendly word for a 'crafty Szekely'.
Location: Cathedral Gardens, Manchester M4 3BG
Date: Friday 20th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £35
Also available: It's a 'pay what you feel it's worth event.
£35 is an estimate for all three days
Contact for info:
Website: gobefest.com
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Lichfield Folk Festival - 20th Jun 2025 - Borrowcop Hill, Lichfield, WS14 9DE, Staffordshire
A weekend of dance and music
in this lovely cathedral city.
Dances - Displays - Workshops - Morris Tours
Location: Borrowcop Hill, Lichfield, WS14 9DE
Date: Friday 20th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: freddiethirsk.folk@talktalk.net
Website: www.lichfieldfolkfestival.co.uk
County: Staffordshire
Country: England
Teignmouth Folk Festival - 20th Jun 2025 - Teignmouth, Devon
Not much info on their site when we last checked.
But if they need help, they could contact me...
They do have a Facebook page however.
Location: Teignmouth
Date: Friday 20th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: info@teignmouthfolkfestival.com
Website: teignmouthfolk.co.uk
County: Devon
Country: England
West Somerset Folk Festival - 20th Jun 2025 - Carhampton, Somerset
Down where the cider apples grow lives a small friendly festival.
With a very friend ticket price!
Singalongs, Workshops, Concerts.
This year we will be repeating the independent Real Ale bar.
Location: Carhampton
Date: Friday 20th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £0
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: 07913246995 or helyarterry@gmail.com
Website: www.westsomersetfolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Somerset
Country: England
Exile Music Festival - 27th Jun 2025 - Sabine Hay, Darley Dale, DE4 2LN, Derbyshire
A weekend event showcasing 15 to 20 local and independent music's best bands. Our goal is to create a reasonably priced, small summer music festival that provides an overwhelmingly positive, comfortable and fun, family experience for both attendees and musicians in a beautiful countryside setting for around 500 people. We also aim to support local young musicians by providing a stage for them.
Location: Sabine Hay, Darley Dale, DE4 2LN
Date: Friday 27th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £70
Contact for info: 07522 404123
Website: www.exilemusicfestival.co.uk
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Bury Folk Festival - 28th Jun 2025 - Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5LU, Suffolk
Music-lovers can look forward to a great day out this summer, as the 9th Bury St Edmunds Folk Festival once again brings its own brand of magic to the town.
The one-day event will be in the walled garden at Nowton Park. With craft stalls, children's activities, music workshops, hot food and a bar with local real ales, this promises to be a wonderful day for the whole family.
The festival is organised by Bury Folk Collective, a not-for-profit group which promotes a diverse range of excellent local folk acts at events throughout the year.
As well as the main stage acts, there will be an Acoustic Tent with beginners' music workshops, informal sessions and a competition for newcomers to folk performance. This is a great space to try making music yourself in a relaxed and friendly way.
Full disabled access to site, reserved viewing area and toilet facilities
Location: Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5LU
Date: Saturday 28th June 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £27.5
Also available: Gate price is £35
Evening ticket £12.50 online. £17.50 at the gate
Contact for info: contact@buryfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: www.buryfolkfestival.co.uk
County: Suffolk
Country: England
New Forest Folk Festival - 2nd Jul 2025 - Plaitford, Romsey,SO51 6EE, Hampshire
The New Forest Folk Festival is the small festival with the big names. Located to the north of The New Forest National Park near Southampton it's an ideal venue for campers with it's riverside campsite and unspoilt farm setting. The site opens Thursday lunchtime to allow travel and a chance to relax for the afternoon before the music begins. Additional attractions include local trade and craftsfolk, and of course local ale.
Location: Plaitford, Romsey,SO51 6EE
Date: Wednesday 2nd July 2025 for 5 day(s)
Full Price: £125
Contact for info: nick@newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Barn On The Farm Festival - 3rd Jul 2025 - Over Farm, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
An acoustic festival for indie and contemporary music.
Shortlisted for Best Independent Festival 2015. Best Small Festival.
Location: Over Farm, Gloucester
Date: Thursday 3rd July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £190
Contact for info: info@barnonthefarm.co.uk
Website: www.barnonthefarm.co.uk/
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Elementary Festival - A world of Sound - 3rd Jul 2025 - Braziers Park, Ipsden Wallingford, Oxfordshire
A world of sound sums it up - music from several countries, in several style. Looks like many acoustic acts, workshops, and the like. And a kids area too for family friendly entertainment.
Take a look at their website to see if it suits your taste.
Location: Braziers Park, Ipsden Wallingford
Date: Thursday 3rd July 2025 for 5 day(s)
Full Price: £0
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: elementaryfest@gmail.com
Website: elementaryfestival.co.uk/
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Folk in a Field - 3rd Jul 2025 - Bradmoor Woods, West Acre, Norfolk
Real Music, Real Ale, Real Field.
Taking place in the heart of Norfolk near to the village of West Acre, the "Folk in a Field Festival" brings together a diverse mix of performers from the acoustic, folk and roots music scene. The rural setting of the festival, surrounded by woodland, contributes to a real get away from it all vibe in which to enjoy some great music, take in interesting craft demonstrations, craft stalls or sample local food.
Location: Bradmoor Woods, West Acre
Date: Thursday 3rd July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £157
Also available: Day tickets too
Contact for info: lukehorncastle@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.folkinafield.co.uk
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Gate to Southwell - 3rd Jul 2025 - Kirklington Parkland, NG22 8NX, Nottinghamshire
Fabulous rural setting near the stunning minster town of Southwell. An awesome line-up of folk, Americana, world, ska, punk, jazz, blues & more over 4 days. On-site camping theatre, spoken word, comedy, street food, cask ales, great traders, campfire sessions, kids’ events, ceilidhs, dogs welcome.
In 2021 we moved to a beautiful new lakeside parkland at Kirklington, which has even more space to camp (you can bring your vehicle onto the campsite so there's no need to lug tents and equipment about).
You'll find over 50 artists performing on 3 main stages plus a children's stage and a workshop tent, and further occasional performances in the main bar and by the boathouse bar. The Lake Stage (our biggest) is now undercover. One of the other main stages is also undercover, and the other is open.
Dance remains a popular part of the festival with an emphasis on variety and entertainment. Ceilidhs or other social folk dances normally take place each day on site. We also programme time for sessions in the bar and by the campfire.
Location: Kirklington Parkland, NG22 8NX
Date: Thursday 3rd July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £159
Contact for info: information@southwellfolkfestival.org.uk
Website: www.gtsf.uk/
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Frome Festival - 4th Jul 2025 - Frome, Somerset
A general arts festival, with a variety of types of events, including some folk music.
(There's often a separate Folk Festival in February.)
Location: Frome
Date: Friday 4th July 2025 for 10 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Individual event tickets
Contact for info: office@fromefestival.co.uk
Website: www.fromefestival.co.uk/
County: Somerset
Country: England
Sandwich Folk and Ale Festival - 4th Jul 2025 - Sandwich, Kent
Many Sandwich Pubs will put on Folk music throughout the weekend, there will be street music and dancing.
The Pub events will be free to enter with main events at St. Mary's Arts Centre ticketed, see their website for details.
A free outdoor concert and Saturday and Sunday
Location: Sandwich
Date: Friday 4th July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Mainly free or individual event tickets.
Contact for info: sandwichfolkfestival@hotmail.com
Website: www.sandwich-folk-and-ale.org
County: Kent
Country: England
The Maverick Festival - 4th Jul 2025 - Easton Farm Park,IP13 0EQ, Suffolk
Roots music from both sides of the Atlantic - Americana Music
"One of the friendliest, most sincere festivals in England... fine music, great fun, delightful people and an idyllic rural setting" said The Telegraph
Location: Easton Farm Park,IP13 0EQ
Date: Friday 4th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £165
Also available: Day tickets too.
Contact for info: paulspencer@maverickfestival.co.uk
Website: www.maverickfestival.co.uk
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Kimpton Folk Festival - 5th Jul 2025 - Kimpton, SG4, Hertfordshire
A new festival in 2016, it's back for July yet again.
Spend a chilled-out day enjoying the nation's favourite folk artists in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside.
This is a one-day event with 4 separate venues including free events on the village green. Main stage has 3 ticketed concerts and there are workshops and a continuous concert in the 13th century church.
Location: Kimpton, SG4
Date: Saturday 5th July 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £40
Contact for info: hello@kimptonfolk.uk
Website: www.kimptonfolk.uk/
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Burton Agnes Jazz & Blues Festival - 11th Jul 2025 - Burton Agnes Hall, Yorkshire
Continuing our occasional festival that's not quite folk policy. (But it has got blues...)
Surrounded by the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds, the Festival is set in the award winning grounds and Great Hall of this Elizabethan stately home.
Could this be the most breathtaking place to spend a weekend, soaking up the UK's hottest jazz and blues acts?
Location: Burton Agnes Hall
Date: Friday 11th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £100
Contact for info: 01262 490324
Website: www.burtonagnes.com/Jazz_Festival.html
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Ely Folk Festival - 11th Jul 2025 - Ely, CB7 5TR, Cambridgeshire
With its beautiful cathedral towering majestically above the surrounding countryside, the City of Ely lies in the heart of the Cambridgeshire Fens, famed for spectacular sunsets and the vast open sky. What better location for a weekend of the best in folk music and dance?
The Folk Festival is based on a single site which includes marquees, camping facilities, food stalls, trade stands, real-ale bar, real toilets, showers, children's entertainment.
Location: Ely, CB7 5TR
Date: Friday 11th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £124
Also available: Day tickets £30 £52 £50
Contact for info: queries@elyfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: elyfolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Furness Tradition - 11th Jul 2025 - Ulverston, Cumbria
Furness Tradition is a folk-arts development group based in the Furness market town of Ulverston on the edge of the Lake District in north-west England. The group was initiated by volunteers to celebrate, encourage and make familiar the musical inheritance of the Furness and South Lakeland area of South Cumbria.
And this is its 26th year!
Location: Ulverston
Date: Friday 11th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: info@furnesstradition.org.uk
Website: furnesstradition.org.uk/
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Great North Folk Festival - 11th Jul 2025 - Botton Village, YO212NJ, Yorkshire
The festival was originally founded to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the North York Moors National Park, and is now a fully independent event attracting music lovers from the local community, and around the folk world.
We encourage local performers from the Yorkshire/ North east region and, in addition ,have included many of the great names of 'Acoustic and Folk' familiar to folk fans. Concerts, Workshops, Song and Music Sessions
Location: Botton Village, YO212NJ
Date: Friday 11th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £55
Contact for info:
Website: greatnorthfolk.com/great-north-2025
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Priddy Folk Festival - 11th Jul 2025 - Priddy, nr Wells, Somerset
A friendly festival held in the idyllic setting of our Village Green high on the beautiful Mendip Hills AONB near Wells in Somerset. This festival has a reputation for exciting new folk. In the past we have had Kan, Treacherous Orchestra, and Flook. Some names booked already include the Will Pound Band and Nizlopi. The weekend also provides great music, and dance, workshops, yoga sessions, club tent, an excellent craft and traders market, guided archaeology walks, a full programme of children's entertainment and much more
Location: Priddy, nr Wells
Date: Friday 11th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £120
Contact for info: tickets@priddyfolk.org
Website: www.priddyfolk.org
County: Somerset
Country: England
Rothbury Traditional Music Festival - 11th Jul 2025 - Rothbury, Northumberland
A small, friendly, community-based music festival set in the heart of Northumberland in Rothbury in the beautiful Coquet Valley. Over the last three decades, Rothbury Festival has established a unique atmosphere that has drawn musicians and singers from throughout the country and beyond to spend a weekend sharing music and experiencing Northumbrian traditions.
Location: Rothbury
Date: Friday 11th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: 07815198680
Website: www.rothburymusicfestival.co.uk/
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Beggars Fair - 12th Jul 2025 - Romsey, Hampshire
In the streets and in venues all around the town the best of local performers bring you folk, jazz, blues and world music, colourful dance displays and children's entertainment.
The Beggars Fair has been running since 1993 and is living up to its aims of showcasing local talent in a friendly environment. From big bands on the Cornmarket stage to intimate acoustic music in tranquil gardens, cheerful pub sessions and spellbinding storytelling, the day has a great atmosphere that keeps bringing people (and performers!) back year after year.
Location: Romsey
Date: Saturday 12th July 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: It's FREE
Contact for info:
Website: www.beggarsfair.org.uk/
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Durham Brass - 13th Jul 2025 - Durham, Durhan
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Something just a bit different.
An explosion of bands and performers combining brass with folk, opera, dance and spectacular outdoor theatre descends on County Durham to fill some stunning venues and City streets with music and fantastic visual effects. With new, cutting edge collaborations, digital trails and established and emerging bands trumping brass in every genre imaginable, it's a feast of international cultures and sounds.
Location: Durham
Date: Sunday 13th July 2025 for 8 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Various prices throughout the event
Contact for info: 03000 266 600
Website: www.brassfestival.co.uk
County: Durhan
Country: England
Bromsgrove Folk Festival - 17th Jul 2025 - Finstall, Bromsgrove, B60 3DH, Worcestershire
Bromsgrove is so much more than a series of concerts with headline artists. Club singers and budding artists are encouraged to add to the Bromsgrove Experience with singarounds, open mics, and the like including, of course, the legendary sessions in the pub bar....then there is the Ukulele Workshop (BUMS) and the Festival Choir (BOTOMS)
Bromsgrove Folk Festival has been described as small and friendly, bijou even, but it is so much more than that......it is enormous in heart and aspiration. We have a pub for sessions (and beer of course), a large camping field (open from 2.00pm on Thursday), a 350 capacity Main Marquee for "up close and personal" concerts, a MiniMarquee (seating about 125) for smaller concerts, singarounds, etc., and excellent toilet facilities.
Location: Finstall, Bromsgrove, B60 3DH
Date: Thursday 17th July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £70
Contact for info: jdb1971red@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk/festival.html
County: Worcestershire
Country: England
Pig's Ear Folk Ale - 17th Jul 2025 - Sevenoaks, Kent
On a new site, check website.
It's about people coming together to eat, drink and make music. It is not a traditional music festival.
Lots of ales and concerts, open mike and sessions in the bar. Even some morris dancing. Small craft fair.
Location: Sevenoaks
Date: Thursday 17th July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £0
Also available: Various day tickets
Contact for info: info@folkale.co.uk
Website: folkale.co.uk/
County: Kent
Country: England
Folklincs Festival - 18th Jul 2025 - The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber, Linconshire
Also known as Folklincs Humberfest
This annual event has become a cornerstone of North Lincolnshire's cultural calendar.
this annual event has become a cornerstone of North Lincolnshire's cultural calendar.
Feature an eclectic mix of performances, workshops, and community activities.
Attendees can look forward to live music from both established and emerging folk artists, offering a diverse range of traditional and contemporary sounds. In addition to the musical lineup, the festival will offer interactive workshops, providing opportunities for participants to engage with various aspects of folk arts and roots music.
Location: The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber
Date: Friday 18th July 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £40
Contact for info: info@folklins.com
Website: www.folklincs.com
County: Linconshire
Country: England
Stainsby Festival - 18th Jul 2025 - Stainsby, Derbyshire
A well-established, intimate and family friendly event in a beautiful rural setting, held in large marquees on a greenfield site in the picturesque hamlet of Stainsby.
Great folk and world music in traditional marquees, crafts stalls, childrens entertainment, music workshops of every kind, storytelling, a singers competition and walkabout events throughout the weekend with camping thrown in.
Location: Stainsby
Date: Friday 18th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £80
Also available: Day tickets available too.
Contact for info: news@stainsbyfestival.org.uk
Website: www.stainsbyfestival.org.uk
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Mitcheldean Festival - 19th Jul 2025 - Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire
A village-based festival in the Forest of Dean with concerts, Morris dancing, village fete, busking, poetry and storytelling, ceilidh dance, song writing competition, live comedy, and a folk walk on the Sunday. Happens every year, third Saturday in July.
Location: Mitcheldean
Date: Saturday 19th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: It's FREE !
Contact for info: talktous@mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
Website: mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Tapestry - 19th Jul 2025 - Southampton, Hampshire
Tapestry is a free festival that takes place in Southampton’s Westquay on the weekend of July 19 and 20. The line-up includes an impressive array of A-List artists with a distinct bent towards folk and ‘global’.
In addition to its mix of world-class artists, Tapestry presents a programme of exceptional local talent and family-friendly workshops that include African drumming and ceilidh dancing - promising a fun and vibrant summer experience.
Also, selected performances will be recorded by BBC Radio 3’s Music Planet for broadcast in August 2025 and the weekend hosted by Music Planet presenter, Lopa Kothari.
Location: Southampton
Date: Saturday 19th July 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £0
Also available: It's Free!
Contact for info: julie@riotsquadpublicity.com
Website: Tapestryfestival.co.uk
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Folk by the Oak - 20th Jul 2025 - Hatfield House, AL9 5NQ, Hertfordshire
Folk by the Oak is just outside of London but it feels a million miles away, surrounded by the leafy green parkland of Hatfield Park, where you will be immersed in music, history, ancient oaks, bunting, fun and laughter.
With the music alternating between 2 stages in one arena there's no FOMO at Folk by the Oak - From the intimacy of their Acorn Stage to the open-air festival buzz of the Main Stage, you can enjoy all the award-winning musicians and inspiring new talent in one memorable day.
The festival supports a local charity - Willow Foundation. They work to provide special days out for seriously ill young adults.
Vintage Tent :: Craft Tent :: Family Friendly atmosphere with Children's Activities :: Music Stalls :: Recycled Gifts :: Delicious Food :: Real Ale bar
Many big names come to this one day event, which in 2024 will be headlined by Levellers, plus Sekou Keita's Homeland Band, The Young'uns, Furrow Collective, Beans on Toast, Malin Lewis Trio, Grace Smith Trio and more.
Location: Hatfield House, AL9 5NQ
Date: Sunday 20th July 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £65
Contact for info: info@folkbytheoak.com
Website: www.folkbytheoak.com/
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Summer in Nashville - 20th Jul 2025 - Robin Hill, Isle of Wight
This is a roadshow, that occurs in several locations.
We've included a few of them, but if you want to see the whole list, remove the location in the url, and you go to the roadshow's own website.
Location: Robin Hill
Date: Sunday 20th July 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £30
Contact for info:
Website: summerinnashville.com/aberdeen
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Upton Blues Festival - 20th Jul 2025 - Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire
Festival of the Year in the British Blues Awards 2015 and 2016. Best Blues Festival in UK Blues Awards in 2018 and 2023
Since the formation of the Blues Committee in 2001 there has been two aims, to produce a festival to promote Blues Music in Upton Upon Severn, and to support the local community. To achieve these aims the Upton Blues Festival has always, and will always be free from any admission charge.
What more can you want than the blues for free? 60 or 70 bands perhaps?
Location: Upton upon Severn
Date: Sunday 20th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £110
Also available: Other tickets too
Contact for info: info@uptonbluesfestival.org.uk
Website: www.upton-blues-festival.co.uk/
County: Worcestershire
Country: England
Warwick Folk Festival - 24th Jul 2025 - Castle Park, Warwick, Warwickshire
Singers and musicians, street entertainers and Morris dancers - it seems that anybody and everybody who enjoys folk music heads for Warwick in July each year.
Since its humble beginnings in 1979, the annual Warwick Folk Festival has developed into one of the most highly regarded folk events on the national and international scene, attracting fans from all over Britain and as far afield as the USA and Australia
Location: Castle Park, Warwick
Date: Thursday 24th July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £135
Contact for info: info@warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
County: Warwickshire
Country: England
Bridport Folk Festival - 25th Jul 2025 - Bridport, Dorset
The festival supports several charities.
A fair number of morris related sides, workshops, music sessions, headline gigs, ceilidhs and barn dances, performance and story telling, artisans, a children's area and loads more are already booked.
Location: Bridport
Date: Friday 25th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Outdoors - £3, workshops £5. Some ticketed events. It's FREE, mainly.
Contact for info: media@bridportfolkfestival.com
Website: bridportfolkfestival.com
County: Dorset
Country: England
Cumberlandia - 25th Jul 2025 - Stainburn, Workington CA14 1SZ, Cumbria
This is a boutique folk festival, organised by a volunteer committee - musicians, artists, craftspeople, hard-workers - whose ambition is simply to put on a memorable weekend to shine a spotlight on local culture.
Main days are Friday and Saturday, with Sunday a relax and chill day with a few performances around lunchtime , and impromptu fireside sessions in the evening.
Location: Stainburn, Workington CA14 1SZ
Date: Friday 25th July 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £85
Also available: Under 12 = £22, same for camping.
Contact for info: info@cumberlandia.co.uk
Website: www.cumberlandia.co.uk
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Guiting Music Festival - 25th Jul 2025 - Guiting Power, Gloucestershire
For half a century the Guiting Music Festival has been a highlight of the Cotswolds summer calendar, bringing an exciting variety of highly talented performances of Classical, Jazz, Blues and Folk music by artists from around the world. In that time it has built up a strong band of very loyal supporters.
Check through their programme to see what parts you like.
Location: Guiting Power
Date: Friday 25th July 2025 for 10 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: enquiries@guitingfestival.org
Website: www.guitingfestival.org
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Cambridge Folk Festival - 31st Jul 2025 - Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridgeshire
Cambridge Folk Festival has decided it is having a year off and will return in 2026.
Location: Cherry Hinton Hall
Date: Thursday 31st July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £230
Also available: Day tickets too
Contact for info: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk
Website: www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
ChickenStock Music Festival - 31st Jul 2025 - Stockbury, ME9 7RN, Kent
Boutique Festival with only 3000 tickets available. Headline Acts - often some of the biggest names!
Set in beautiful Kent just 5 mins from J5 on M2.
Camping opens Thursday 31st July 2025 with entertainment and sing-a-rounds in the bar from 5pm.
All genres of music but have a particular passion for Folk Rock, Folk, Roots and Acoustic music, which is the main genre of the Acts booked, but Folk as you may not expect!
Based in beautiful Kent country, but just 5 minutes from J5 of the M2, Chickstock Festival is building on previous years' 'magical' festival of folk, roots and acoustic music, with even more bands booked for this year!
Location: Stockbury, ME9 7RN
Date: Thursday 31st July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £135
Contact for info: 07830 626234
Website: www.chickenstockfestival.co.uk
County: Kent
Country: England
Wickham Festival - 31st Jul 2025 - Wickham, PO17 5HD, Hampshire
Variety of music styles, includes some top folk acts.
Concerts, workshop, dance displays, craft fairs, sessions. Lots of things to keep you entertained.
There will be a good selection of food and drink including a great choice of real ales at the main venue. Some excellent village pubs, wine bars, restaurants, shops and bistros, all within easy walking distance of the main venue. There are also some lovely village and riverside walks around Wickham plus the historic Chesapeake Mill and Water Gardens that are well worth a visit
Location: Wickham, PO17 5HD
Date: Thursday 31st July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £180
Also available: Day tickets too
Contact for info: eastfest@talk21.com
Website: www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Wilderness - 31st Jul 2025 - Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire
A place where art, intellectualism and fantastic gastronomy share equal billing with music.
A festival covering many different media - music, film, talks - all on a variety of genres. The London Folk Guild brings the very best in folk, blues, acoustic, Americana, bluegrass, roots and country from the UK and around the world.
Winner of several Festival awards.
Location: Cornbury Park
Date: Thursday 31st July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £230
Also available: Camping tickets extra
Contact for info: info@wildernessfestival.com
Website: www.wildernessfestival.com
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Northern Kin Festival - 1st Aug 2025 - Thornley Hall Farm, Durham, County Durham
A variety of music styles, including folk music and an acoustic stage. Three big stages.
Location: Thornley Hall Farm, Durham
Date: Friday 1st August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £110
Contact for info: info@northernkinfestival.co.uk
Website: www.northernkinfestival.co.uk
County: County Durham
Country: England
Sea Shanty and Folk Music Festival - 1st Aug 2025 - Weston-super-Mare - Multiple venues, Somerset
Folk music. Shanty singing. Pirates. Food and drink.
That should keep a lot of people happy!
Location: Weston-super-Mare - Multiple venues
Date: Friday 1st August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Multiple venues = variable prices
Contact for info: robinwhitlock1966@gmail.com
Website: wsmshantyfest.com
County: Somerset
Country: England
Sidmouth Folk Festival - 1st Aug 2025 - Sidmouth, Devon
For the 71ST Time !
Sidmouth Folk Festival is a unique week-long seaside celebration of music, dance and song taking place in the charming East Devon regency coastal resort. A must in every festival goer's annual diary. There has been a folk festival in Sidmouth in the first week of August every year since 1955, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to over 700 diverse events with a promise of something for everyone, from major league concerts to small intimate sessions, from ceilidh dancing to lively roots parties, from family entertainment to youth-centred masterclasses, from social dance to colourful dance displays.
Location: Sidmouth
Date: Friday 1st August 2025 for 8 day(s)
Full Price: £360
Also available: Plus - Individual event tickets
Contact for info: info@sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: www.sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk
County: Devon
Country: England
Halsway Manor Family Folk Week - 2nd Aug 2025 - Halsway Manor, Crowcomb, Somerset
A week long residential event, so not quite a festival, but a long folk event.
Residential and non-residential tickets at a variety of prices.
Location: Halsway Manor, Crowcomb
Date: Saturday 2nd August 2025 for 7 day(s)
Full Price: £320
Also available: Rooms are extra
Contact for info: office@halswaymanor.org.uk
Website: halswaymanor.org.uk/event/family-folk-week-2025/
County: Somerset
Country: England
Melton Folk Festival - 2nd Aug 2025 - Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
A festival set in the ancient market town of Melton Mowbray. With Craft fair, local market, Morris Dancing, sing-arounds, music session, outdoor market stage and 13 venues collected around its atmospheric center. Two days of music and mayhem so if you fancy playing or just want to eat the pie - come to Melton Folk Festival.
Location: Melton Mowbray
Date: Saturday 2nd August 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: It's FREE !
Contact for info: meltonfolk@gmail.com
Website: festival.meltonfolk.com
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Sidmouth Fringe Sessions - 2nd Aug 2025 - Salcombe Regis, Devon
This is a big fringe, over four evenings. Featuring a great line up, and it's all free!
All events in McBuzz's Barn.
The Fringe Sessions feature a mix of the most exciting emerging talent along with some established heavyweight favourites from across the UK and internationally. Entry is FREE to all music lovers but we have a donations bucket for the artists.
The music is an eclectic mix of many genres - and has included folk/roots, bluegrass, stomp, blues, acoustic, jazzfusion, world and indie rock/pop - plus everything in-between.
Location: Salcombe Regis
Date: Saturday 2nd August 2025 for 5 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: It's FREE ! Donations will be accepted.
Contact for info: 01395 579564
Website: www.sidmouthfringe.co.uk/
County: Devon
Country: England
Summer in Nashville - 3rd Aug 2025 - Guildford, Surrey
This is a roadshow, that occurs in several locations.
We've included a few of them, but if you want to see the whole list, remove the location in the url, and you go to the roadshow's own website.
Location: Guildford
Date: Sunday 3rd August 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £30
Contact for info:
Website: summerinnashville.com/guildford
County: Surrey
Country: England
Boomtown Behind the Mask - 6th Aug 2025 - Matterley Estate, Winchester, SO21 1HW, Hampshire
A large event covering a large variety of music styles, in it's 11th year. The event is spread over several stages, and there is a folk section . Research it and make your own decision on whether it suits you. The line-up includes many well-known acts.
Location: Matterley Estate, Winchester, SO21 1HW
Date: Wednesday 6th August 2025 for 5 day(s)
Full Price: £300
Also available: Various other tickets too.
Contact for info: info@boomtownfair.co.uk
Website: www.boomtownfair.co.uk/
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Fairport's Cropredy Convention - 7th Aug 2025 - Cropredy, Oxfordshire
Famous reunion festival taking place in Oxfordshire, for the legendary Fairport Convention. And lots of guests.
There aren't many acts that run their own famous festival! And for over 50 years, so lookout for special surprize guests.
Tickets tend to sell out fast, so don't miss out.
Location: Cropredy
Date: Thursday 7th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £220
Also available: Camping, parking extra
Contact for info: tickets@fairportconvention.com
Website: www.fairportconvention.com
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Broadstairs Folk Week - 8th Aug 2025 - Broadstairs, Kent
60th Anniversary in 2025
During Folk Week, life in Broadstairs really is set to music. In the parks, pubs, gardens and on the beaches and promenade- there really is a festival vibe in the town - nobody who arrives in Broadstairs during Folk Week wonders whether there is an event taking place - it's inescapable - in the best possible way!
Location: Broadstairs
Date: Friday 8th August 2025 for 8 day(s)
Full Price: £270
Also available: Other tickets available too.
Contact for info: info@broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk / 01843 604080
Website: www.broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk/
County: Kent
Country: England
Dartmoor Folk Festival - 8th Aug 2025 - South Zeal near Okehampton, Devon
The Dartmoor Folk Festival is a friendly traditional festival, with highlights including Ceilidh, Song & Music Sessions, Dartmoor Stepdance and Broomdance Championships, Dartmoor Fayre, Craft Displays, Dances, Music Hall, Sunday Ramble, Folk Service, Pub Sessions & Children's Events.PLUS - Craft tent, Sideshows, Demonstrations, Dance Displays, Children's Entertainers and much more...The festival continues to attract some of the top national and local artists as guests, maintaining its reputation as one of the top events in the folk calendar.
Location: South Zeal near Okehampton
Date: Friday 8th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £70
Contact for info: enquiries@dartmoorfolkfestival.org.uk
Website: www.dartmoorfolkfestival.org.uk
County: Devon
Country: England
Saltburn Festival - 8th Aug 2025 - Saltburn, Cleveland
This year will see the 26th Saltburn Folk Festival take place in the historic, Victorian town of Saltburn.
An annual town based traditional and contemporary folk festival for all ages, with concerts, Street Entertainment, Singarounds, Music Sessions, Ceilidhs, Choirs, Maritime, Craft Stalls, Kids Events, Dance Teams, Workshops, Music Hall, Camping, Free Fringe Events.
Location: Saltburn
Date: Friday 8th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £100
Contact for info: 07397 313159 / festivaloffice@saltburnfolkfestival.com
Website: www.saltburnfolkfestival.com
County: Cleveland
Country: England
The Magpies Festival - 8th Aug 2025 - Sutton Park, YO61 1DP, Yorkshire
2022 was the first such event, and it was successful enough to stage its third event, for 2024.
Transatlantic folk trio, The Magpies, have announced that they will be hosting their first festival - in the stunning parkland of York's stately home, Sutton Park. The line-up is set to include the likes of Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra, Blair Dunlop and Katherine Priddy, with more exciting names to be announced.
Location: Sutton Park, YO61 1DP
Date: Friday 8th August 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £72
Contact for info: themagpiesmusicinfo@gmail.com
Website: www.themagpiesfestival.co.uk
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival - 14th Aug 2025 - Purbeck Valley Farm, Swanage, Dorset
Purbeck Folk Festival in the rolling hills of Dorset.
Located on a little sheep farm and in its fifth year, it's "how festivals used to be" - friendly, great for kids and adults alike, and small enough to be able to wander around and not lose your friends. Purbeck Folk Festival covers the broader definition of folk music and you can hear music from all around the world; some deep and meaningful, some get up and jump around.
Not to be confused with the nearby Swanage festivals
Location: Purbeck Valley Farm, Swanage
Date: Thursday 14th August 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £175
Contact for info: cath@purbeckvalleyfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: www.purbeckvalleyfolkfestival.co.uk
County: Dorset
Country: England
Beautiful Days - 15th Aug 2025 - Escot Park, Devon
Beautiful Days is the Levellers' annual 15,000 capacity family-friendly weekend camping festival at Escot Park, which started in 2003. It has a huge children's area in the centre of the festival, comedy, theatre, family camping, a healing area, licensed real ale bars from Otter Brewery & carefully selected food and craft stalls.
Chosen as one of the Best Family Festivals in 2013 by the Guardian
Location: Escot Park
Date: Friday 15th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £190
Contact for info: info@beautifuldays.org
Website: www.beautifuldays.org/
County: Devon
Country: England
Big Weekend - 15th Aug 2025 - Welshampton, Shropshire
A joyous celebration of Cajun, Creole and Louisiana roots music, dance and culture set in the heart of the beautiful North Shropshire Lakelands!
Location: Welshampton
Date: Friday 15th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £110
Contact for info:
Website: the-bigweekend.co.uk
County: Shropshire
Country: England
FolkEast - 15th Aug 2025 - Sotterley Hall, Beccles, Suffolk
Note the NEW LOCATION for this, the 13th event.
This event has been going for around ten years now, in East Anglia (hence the name).
A fresh approach to a timeless tradition with an eclectic mix of contemporary and traditional music. Re-kindling the Eastfolk folkmoots on the Sotterley Hall Estate, where, for three days of the year, the folk of the East bring their families & gather for a bit of a to-do.
Location: Sotterley Hall, Beccles
Date: Friday 15th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £165
Contact for info: info@folkeast.co.uk
Website: www.folkeast.co.uk
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Moira Furnace Folk Festival - 15th Aug 2025 - Moira Furnace,Swadlicote, DE12 6AT, Leicestershire
The festival features some well known and talented main acts, plus local and national, up and coming artists.
Location: Moira Furnace,Swadlicote, DE12 6AT
Date: Friday 15th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £90
Also available: Day tickets too.
Contact for info: info@moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
Website: moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
White Horse Folk Festival - 15th Aug 2025 - Grove, near Wantage (OX120AE), Oxfordshire
A small, intimate, relaxed festival where there is an emphasis on creating an inclusive atmosphere and encouraging everyone to play a part in the weekend's events. There is plenty of opportunity to sing, play or tell a story with singarounds and music sessions every day.
Location: Grove, near Wantage (OX120AE)
Date: Friday 15th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £50
Contact for info: WhiteHorseFolkFestival@gmail.com or 07854-491358
Website: www.whitehorsefolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Folk in the Park - 16th Aug 2025 - Manor Park, Sutton, London, SM1 4AH, Greater London
Folk In The Park is a day-long live music festival in the heart of the South London borough of Sutton, taking place in the award-winning green space, Manor Park.
Location: Manor Park, Sutton, London, SM1 4AH
Date: Saturday 16th August 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £30
Contact for info:
Website: www.folkinthepark.com
County: Greater London
Country: England
Whitby Folk Week - 16th Aug 2025 - Whitby, Yorkshire
Seven days of dancing in the streets, music and singing in the pubs, concerts and dances until late into the night, and a whole lot more. Seven days of meeting old friends and making new ones.
With over 600 events, this long-standing celebration of the traditional music, dance and song of the British Isles has taken on the trappings of a tradition in its own right.
Location: Whitby
Date: Saturday 16th August 2025 for 7 day(s)
Full Price: £245
Also available: Day tickets £54 and £71
Contact for info: folk@whitbyfolk.co.uk
Website: www.whitbyfolk.co.uk/
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Cornwall Folk Festival - 21st Aug 2025 - Wadebridge, Cornwall
The Cornwall Folk Festival is the annual celebration of Folk and Roots Music and Dance in Wadebridge.
It brings national and international performers to Cornwall
and showcase local talent to the wider artistic world, in front of Cornish and visiting audiences.
Location: Wadebridge
Date: Thursday 21st August 2025 for 5 day(s)
Full Price: £79
Contact for info: info@cornwallfolkfestival.com
Website: www.cornwallfolkfestival.com/wp/
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Cottingham Folk Festival - 21st Aug 2025 - Cottingham, Yorkshire
Now in its eleventh year, for the region's already blossoming music calendar, to be hosted in various venues in the picturesque East Yorkshire village of Cottingham across the first weekend of September. An exciting addition to a vibrant summer of events, this three-day extravaganza will see an incredible line-up of artists descend on what is thought to be the largest village in the UK
Location: Cottingham
Date: Thursday 21st August 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £115
Also available: Individual event tickets too
Contact for info: info@cottinghamfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: cottinghamfolkfestival.co.uk
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Greenbelt - 21st Aug 2025 - Boughton Estate, Kettering,NN14 1BJ, Northamptonshire
It's been around for over 50 years.
Not many events can say that!
An arts, faith and justice festival with a long and rich history.
Greenbelt covers a variety of styles of music and other things, including guest speakers and comedy.
Expect a variety of styles of entertainment.
Location: Boughton Estate, Kettering,NN14 1BJ
Date: Thursday 21st August 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £244
Contact for info: info@greenbelt.org.uk
Website: www.greenbelt.org.uk/
County: Northamptonshire
Country: England
Shambala Festival - 21st Aug 2025 - Secret, Northamptonshire
This festival covers many different music styles, including folk music. It will suit those with a wide range of musical interests. Over 200 diverse music acts across 12 live stages. comedy, electric, roots, reggae and folk, films and theatre. Some of everything.
Location is kept secret for quite some time.
Location: Secret
Date: Thursday 21st August 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £257
Contact for info: enquiries@shambalafestival.org
Website: www.shambalafestival.org/
County: Northamptonshire
Country: England
Found Festival - 22nd Aug 2025 - Claydon Estate, Buckinghamshire
New to us.
It replaces the Towersey Festival
A festival of discovery with music, dance, arts, crafts and wellness. Head turners from the world of Americana, Folk, Country, Blues, World and Roots Music. A festival with space to breathe and relax, to discover and learn, to create and share. Your first and forever festival, inspiring the best you. Don’t lose yourself, be Found.
Location: Claydon Estate
Date: Friday 22nd August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £215
Contact for info: hello@foundfestival.uk
Website: foundfestival.uk
County: Buckinghamshire
Country: England
Maui Waui - 22nd Aug 2025 - Hill Farm, Dereham, NR19 2NR, Norfolk
Not strictly a folk event. A mixture of styles and events that some of you may be interested in. A bit like Breaded Theory they say.
Location: Hill Farm, Dereham, NR19 2NR
Date: Friday 22nd August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £160
Contact for info: silas@mauiwauievents.co.uk
Website: www.mauiwauievents.co.uk/
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Shrewsbury Folk Festival - 22nd Aug 2025 - Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Shrewsbury Folk Festival has a reputation for delivering the very finest acts from the UK and around the world, always searching to find new authentic artists as well as providing a platform for established performers, and never forgetting to add some fun and diversity to our concerts. We try to bring quality in depth.
Location: Shrewsbury
Date: Friday 22nd August 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £210
Also available: Day tickets too
Contact for info: sandra@shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Shropshire
Country: England
England's Medieval Festival - 23rd Aug 2025 - The King's Grove, Pippingford, East Sussex
A medieval event, with stage shows, jousting, music and dance, and lots of things for the kids too. They have a full line up of folk music. It's a one-of-a-kind event with a very special blend of history and fun for the whole family.
Something different especially if you like older music.
Location: The King's Grove, Pippingford
Date: Saturday 23rd August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £140
Contact for info: tickets@mgel.com
Website: www.englandsmedievalfestival.com/
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Northgate Folk Festival - 23rd Aug 2025 - Alexander's Live, Rufus Court, Chester, CH1 2JW, Cheshire
A one day event in Chester
Featuring traditional and experimental folk. Dance displays, sessions.
Northgate Folk Festival champions forward-thinking artists forging their own paths in traditional music. From haunting originals to full-blooded reworkings of centuries-old work songs; the event will once again showcase the new wave of acts who embody the genre’s ever-evolving nature.
Location: Alexander's Live, Rufus Court, Chester, CH1 2JW
Date: Saturday 23rd August 2025 for day(s)
Full Price: £27
Contact for info: alexanderslivegigs@gmail.com
Website: alexanderslive.seetickets.com/event/northgate-folk-festival-2025/alexander-s-live/3428318
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Halsway Folk Summer School - 25th Aug 2025 - Halsway Manor, Crowcomb, Somerset
A regular event, a summer school event on folk music, dance, and song. All ages and abilities are welcome.
Location: Halsway Manor, Crowcomb
Date: Monday 25th August 2025 for 5 day(s)
Full Price: £255
Also available: Residential tickets available
Contact for info: office@halswaymanor.org.uk
Website: halswaymanor.org.uk/event/folk-summer-school-2025/
County: Somerset
Country: England
Didmarton Bluegrass Festival - 29th Aug 2025 - Kemble Airfield, GL7 6BQ, Gloucestershire
Once again we've included a few bluegrass festivals to give you a bit more variety. And besides, we noticed a few folk stars in the line up...
(We're not trying to cover every such festival, just a few samples for you enjoyment.)
Run by a new team of familiar faces.
Location: Kemble Airfield, GL7 6BQ
Date: Friday 29th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £95
Also available: That's the standard price, early birds are cheaper.
Contact for info: tickets@didmarton-bluegrass.co.uk
Website: didmarton-bluegrass.co.uk/
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Lyme Folk Weekend - 29th Aug 2025 - Lyme Regis, Dorset
The line up, for a newish event, has been very start-studded as well, and this year will probably be just as great.
Singing, sessions, morris parade, shanty festival, story telling, and much more.
There will be free daily concerts on the Seafront Stage from noon to 5pm plus the usual Morris dancing and parade throughout the town.
Location: Lyme Regis
Date: Friday 29th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Mainly FREE! Some events at £30
Contact for info: 01297 442138 / admin@lymefolk.com
Website: www.lymefolk.com
County: Dorset
Country: England
Moseley Folk Festival - 29th Aug 2025 - Moseley Park, Birmingham, West Midlands
Our tradition of an eclectic folk selection continues this year.
Showcasing unsigned acts right alongside well established international artists makes for a really exciting bill.
Location: Moseley Park, Birmingham
Date: Friday 29th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £170
Also available: Day and two day tickets £65 and £97
Contact for info: info@moseleyfolk.co.uk
Website: www.moseleyfolk.co.uk
County: West Midlands
Country: England
Off the Tracks - Summer Festival - 29th Aug 2025 - Castle Donington, DE74 2RN, Leicestershire
A great family site.
Atmospheric Surroundings - Great live music
60 Real Ales and Ciders - Acoustic Sessions
Excellent Camping Facilities & Showers
Arts & crafts stalls - Fantastic Food - Circus Workshops, and Parade
Family Friendly - Children's Play Area -Entertainment & activities for children
Shiatsu - Yoga - Energy work - Tai Chi - Chi Kung - Meditation
Location: Castle Donington, DE74 2RN
Date: Friday 29th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £120
Also available: Day tickets too
Contact for info: info@offthetracks.co.uk
Website: offthetracks.co.uk/
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
SingFest - 29th Aug 2025 - Dockenfield, GU10 4HH, Surrey
Not your normal folk fest.
Learn joyous songs from five renowned conductors in fun, relaxed workshops
within the beautiful surroundings of Mellow Farm.
Singing Workshops
Camping, Ceilidh, Open Mic, Saturday Night BBQ, Lantern Making, Junk Samba workshop, Yoga, Family Activities, Local Beer & Cider and the best campfire sing-arounds you've ever heard.
Location: Dockenfield, GU10 4HH
Date: Friday 29th August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £135
Also available: Not fully updated on our last visit
Contact for info: contact@communityvox.org.uk
Website: communityvox.org.uk/singfest2024-1
County: Surrey
Country: England
Faversham Hop Festival - 30th Aug 2025 - Faversham, ME13 7AH, Kent
Multiple locations in the town, mainly around the market place.
Features a variety of styles - Morris dance, acoustic and folk, and some rock-ish. There is also a fringe festival.
And it's along the M2, close to Canterbury.
Location: Faversham, ME13 7AH
Date: Saturday 30th August 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: hello@favershamhopfestival.org
Website: www.favershamhopfestival.org/
County: Kent
Country: England
SongFest - 30th Aug 2025 - Rugby, CV23 9LF, Warwickshire
A micro music festival celebrating really good songs and the folks who write them.
A weekend of powerful, poignant, and hilarious songs and stories by these acclaimed songsmiths.
Location: Rugby, CV23 9LF
Date: Saturday 30th August 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £87
Also available: Accommodation available too
Contact for info: info@songfest.live
Website: songfest.live
County: Warwickshire
Country: England
Bellingham All Acoustic Music Festival - 4th Sep 2025 - Brownrigg, NE48 2HR, Northumberland
Also known as BAAFest
A great mix of folk, jazz, blues and anything else that they fancy! As long as it's all acoustic.
No sheep were harmed in the production of their website.
Location: Brownrigg, NE48 2HR
Date: Thursday 4th September 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £70
Contact for info: info@baafest.com
Website: www.baafest.co.uk/
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Oxford Storytelling Festival - 5th Sep 2025 - Waterperry House and Gardens, OX33 1LA, Oxfordshire
Oxford Storytelling Festival, an exciting boutique family festival is
coming to Waterperry this Summer. An August bank holiday full of Magic,
Myth and Mystery to enchant and enliven your senses.
Location: Waterperry House and Gardens, OX33 1LA
Date: Friday 5th September 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £0
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: info@oxfordstorytellingfestival.co.uk
Website: www.oxfordstorytellingfestival.co.uk
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Swanage Folk Festival - 5th Sep 2025 - Swanage, Dorset
Swanage comes alive with hundreds of Morris dancers in their bright costumes and jingling bells, and folk music lovers, every year for the weekend on the second Friday after the August Bank Holiday Monday.
Concerts, join-in sessions, workshops, as well as dancers
Location: Swanage
Date: Friday 5th September 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £79
Also available: Separate event tickets too
Contact for info: info@swanagefolkfestival.com
Website: www.swanagefolkfestival.com/
County: Dorset
Country: England
Bromyard Folk Festival - 11th Sep 2025 - Bromyard, Herefordshire
Started in 1968, still going strong.
Folk festival/cultural event in the Welsh Border area - featuring over 170 hours of entertainment in just one weekend of traditional music, song and dance.
Some of the most outstanding local, national and international traditional folk festival musicians performing in concert, ceilidhs and displays.
Location: Bromyard
Date: Thursday 11th September 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: info@bromyard-folk-festival.org.uk
Website: www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Herefordshire
Country: England
Worcester Music Festival - 12th Sep 2025 - Worcester, WR1 2RS, Worcestershire
A mixed genre event, with a folk element for you to enjoy. More than 20 venues and 200 artists (!) to enjoy.
Worcester Music Festival are pleased to announce we will be working alongside Acorns Children's Hospice this year, with the money raised by the festival going towards Acorns' music therapy scheme.
Location: Worcester, WR1 2RS
Date: Friday 12th September 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: It's FREE !
Contact for info: info@worcestermusicfestival.co.uk
Website: www.worcestermusicfestival.co.uk/
County: Worcestershire
Country: England
Medieval Music in the Dales - 13th Sep 2025 - Bolton Castle and Redmire, Yorkshire
An annual medieval music festival wholly dedicated to medieval music-making. It's unique in the UK.
Our theme for this year is The Matter of Britain - Medieval Music and Story of the British Isles.
A major event in the early music calendar - a weekend dedicated solely to the music of the middle ages. It's all happening at Bolton Castle in beautiful Wensleydale in North Yorkshire
Location: Bolton Castle and Redmire
Date: Saturday 13th September 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Day tickets
Contact for info: medievalmusicinthedales@gmail.com
Website: www.medievalmusicinthedales.co.uk/
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
St Ives September Festival - 13th Sep 2025 - St Ives, Cornwall
Two weeks of the arts and music in September.
A large variety of genres of music, usually with some folk and acoustic music from some major acts. Arts, literature and film events too.
For over 30 years St Ives Festival has been one of the must-play events for those of us on the Folk, Roots and Acoustic music scene.
Location: St Ives
Date: Saturday 13th September 2025 for 15 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Mainly individual event tickets
Contact for info: info@stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk
Website: www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Otley Folk Festival - 19th Sep 2025 - Otley, Yorkshire
This is the 34th event!
Featuring some big names in the folk genre and talented local artists as well.
Near Leeds.
Location: Otley
Date: Friday 19th September 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £60
Also available: Day and concert tickets also available
Contact for info: OtleyFF@hotmail.com
Website: otleyfolkfestival.com/
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
SeptemberSong - 19th Sep 2025 - Braziers Park. OX10 6AN, Oxfordshire
Septembersong, Wood HQ's new end of the summer event, returns for a third year! As well as amazing music and songwriters, Septembersong features harmony singing workshops and songs round the campfire, yoga and meditation, talks and interviews, crafts in the 'Old Ways' maker space, great local food and drink, after-hours dancing, seasonal cocktails… and much more. Take the time to slow down, relax and re-connect. We hope you can join us and be a part of our mission to connect with nature and build community through music and the arts.
Location: Braziers Park. OX10 6AN
Date: Friday 19th September 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £129
Also available: Day tickets too
Contact for info: info@woodfestival.com
Website: www.woodhq.org/septembersong
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Southdowns Folk Festival - 19th Sep 2025 - Bognor Regis, Sussex
Price covers nine afternoon and evening events, including the headliners evening concerts - and there are several big name headliners too!
Supported by crowdfunding donations.
Site not fully updated on our last visit.
Location: Bognor Regis
Date: Friday 19th September 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £95
Also available: Half-price for under 16s
Contact for info: rnash10@hotmail.com
Website: www.southdownsfolkfest.co.uk
County: Sussex
Country: England
Malmesbury Folk & Roots - 20th Sep 2025 - Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, SN16 0AA, Wiltshire
A one-day festival in the beautiful grounds of the historic Malmesbury Abbey.
Featuring the best in folk and roots music from the UK and beyond, we have put together an AWESOME line-up.
All proceeds to the Malmesbury Mayoral Charities.
Location: Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, SN16 0AA
Date: Saturday 20th September 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £28
Contact for info: douglas.r.price1@gmail.com
Website: www.malmesburyfolkroots.org/
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Allen Valleys Folk Festival - 26th Sep 2025 - Allendale, Northumberland
Events are held at several locations around Allendale. But mainly in the village hall.
Established in 2014, celebrating the best in folk music, traditional dance and workshops.
Location: Allendale
Date: Friday 26th September 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £65
Contact for info: peteraldcroft@gmail.com
atkinsoncraig@mac.com
Website: allenvalleysfolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Edgworth Folk Festival - 3rd Oct 2025 - Edgworth, BL7 OAP, Lancashire
A festival that both promotes folk music and supports a local community centre so it can continue to be open to the local community.
All proceeds go to the Barlow Trust. There are concerts, workshops, singarounds, music sessions, dance displays, a ceilidh, lectures, demonstrations, with a bar and food available. All the artists and workshop leaders give their time and talents for free for which we are immensely grateful.
Car park at back. Parking place for campervans (but no campervan utilities available).
The website has moved to a new domain name now.
Location: Edgworth, BL7 OAP
Date: Friday 3rd October 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £50
Also available: Day tickets too
Contact for info: 07427613783 / folkatthebarlow@gmail.com
Website: www.folkatthebarlow.com/edgworth-festival-2025
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Hartlepool Folk Festival - 3rd Oct 2025 - Hartlepool Headland, TS24 0JD, Northumberland
Please join us for a sumptuous autumn weekend full of great music, food and drink, all set in lovely Old Hartlepool. We have put together a lineup containing some of the very best artists on the UK folk scene, but which pays special tribute to the incredibly rich culture and traditions of Teesside and the wider North East.
Location: Hartlepool Headland, TS24 0JD
Date: Friday 3rd October 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £105
Also available: Day tickets too.
Contact for info: jonny@hartlepoolfolkfest.co.uk
Website: www.hartlepoolfolkfest.co.uk
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Derby Folk Weekend - 10th Oct 2025 - Derby, DE1 3AH, Derbyshire
Concerts, workshops, sessions.
Mainly indoors, so no need to worry about the weather. There are individual concerts in Derby Cathedral on Friday evening, and Saturday, and concerts in The Old Bell Hotel on Friday evening, and through Saturday and Sunday.
Location: Derby, DE1 3AH
Date: Friday 10th October 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £88
Also available: Variety of day and event tickets.
Contact for info: admin@derbyfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: www.derbyfolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Get a Word in Edgeways - 10th Oct 2025 - Much Wenlock, Shropshire
We occasionally feature festivals with a difference. And this time it is a veritable feast of interweaving words: stories, poems, rap and songs, from across the Welsh Marches, West Midlands and the whole wide world!
Location: Much Wenlock
Date: Friday 10th October 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: TBA
Contact for info: mike@gawiefest.co.uk
Website: gawiefest.co.uk
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Harwich International Sea Shanty Festival - 10th Oct 2025 - Harwich, Essex
A mixture of free open air entertainment, concerts, music sessions, classic boats, pub sessions and singarounds during the festival weekend. Events take place throughout the old town of Harwich at several local venues.
Location: Harwich
Date: Friday 10th October 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: Individual event tickets or FREE bits
Contact for info: info@harwichshantyfestival.co.uk
Website: www.harwichshantyfestival.co.uk/
County: Essex
Country: England
Beyond the Moor - 11th Oct 2025 - Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear
It's back again, for it's fourth year. Intends to showcase contemporary, alternative and traditional folk and roots music. Includes local and national artists.
An afternoon and evening event.
Location: Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle
Date: Saturday 11th October 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £45
Contact for info: 0191 284 3700
Website: https://www.gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/beyond-the-moor
County: Tyne and Wear
Country: England
Musicport Festival - 24th Oct 2025 - Whitby, Yorkshire
A world music event, many different styles. Check the line up to see if it appeals to your tastes.
Musicport was established in 2000 to promote live music and music education in Whitby and the surrounding area.
The rather magical winner of the Indoor Festival of the Year 2013 (Fatea Awards
Location: Whitby
Date: Friday 24th October 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £120
Contact for info: 01947 603475
Website: www.musicportfestival.com/
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Black Deer in the City - 25th Oct 2025 - Tobacco Dock, London, Greater London
A stand-in for their normal event which has been postponed until next year, this Americana festival is taking place in London this year.
Over 50 artists on three live stages.
Location: Tobacco Dock, London
Date: Saturday 25th October 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £90
Contact for info: info@blackdeerfestival.com
Website: www.blackdeerfestival.com
County: Greater London
Country: England
The Dark Gathering - 25th Oct 2025 - Tintagel, Cornwall
New to the site, but this is it's 11th event.
This is basically a seasonal festival with dynamic performances from Morris dancers, musicians and the all important meeting of the Welsh Mari Lwyds with our Cornish Oss, Penkevyll marking the end of Summer and the beginning of Winter. The main venue of these performances was outside the famous Museum of Witchcraft & Magic in the pretty village of Boscastle, Cornwall. It has now been moved to the beautiful historic town of Tintagel that has a unique magical energy of its own.
Location: Tintagel
Date: Saturday 25th October 2025 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £25
Contact for info: enquiries@thedarkgathering.co.uk
Website: thedarkgathering.co.uk
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Melton Winter Festival - 13th Dec 2025 - Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Also known as The Melton Mowbray Christmas Folk Trail, consists of many acts hosted across many venues in the town of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK. With an additional welcoming singaround on the evening of Friday 9th December.
Usually taking place in different local venues.
Location: Melton Mowbray
Date: Saturday 13th December 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available: tba
Contact for info: adrian@meltonfolk.com
Website: meltonfolk.com/festival/winter-festival/
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
The festivals below are older festivals who haven't yet updated their sites
This helps you check up on festivals we haven't yet confirmed are on in 2025. If you see any that HAVE recently updated to this year, let us know (email is given on the Contact page). And if we've missed a festival completely, do tell us.
Bowness Bay Blues - 15th Mar 2024, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria
A stunning line-up of brilliant blues musicians in the heart of the Lake District, on the eastern shore of Lake Windermere.
PLUS a free fringe event!
'a flagship for the very best of British blues' www.bluesinthenorthwest.com
'a thoroughly great weekend' North West Evening Mail
Raises money for charity.
Location: Bowness-on-Windermere
Date: Friday 15th March 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £65
Also available Day tickets £25, £40, £35,
Contact for info: info@bownessbayblues.co.uk
Website: www.bownessbayblues.co.uk/
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Raunds Music Festival - 3rd May 2024, Raunds, NN9 6LT, Northamptonshire
One of the Top 10 Festivals in the Midlands (Travelmag)
Dancing; Song and Tune sessions; Hot Food & Real Ale; local musicians & comedy
Friday evening Ceilidh
Concerts, Sessions, Dancing, Workshops, Ceilidh and much more.
Bringing live roots music to East Northhants. Includes workshops and dancers. Local and national talent from the folk world
Several award winning artists have recently been booked.
Location: Raunds, NN9 6LT
Date: Friday 3rd May 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £40
Also available Concerts £5-18, under 16s £2
Contact for info: 07756 015615 / tickets@raundsfestival.com
Website: www.raundsfestival.com
County: Northamptonshire
Country: England
Black Deer Americana - 14th Jun 2024, Eridge Park, Kent
Black Deer is on a mission to bring the real Americana & Country music, and way of life, to the UK - expressed through a unique music festival.
Black Deer is a festival born from passion, and built from experience - thanks to its founders, who are no strangers to the festival and events scene, having produced and directed some of the UK's most loved featuring legendary Americana artists like Neil Young, the Eagles and Bob Dylan. And for whom, Americana and country music has become a lifelong love affair.
Location: Eridge Park
Date: Friday 14th June 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available Day tickets £75
Contact for info: info@blackdeerfestival.com
Website: blackdeerfestival.com
County: Kent
Country: England
Moor and Coast Session - 21st Jun 2024, Whitby, Yorkshire
Formally known as Whitby Spring Session. This is a small event so book soon.
The format of the event is as follows:
- Live music is scheduled on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings.
- Camping is available from the Thursday. Showers and toilets are available.
- A Friday night Fish & Chip Supper is included as well as breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
- The wonderful town of Whitby is a short walk or taxi ride away, there is lots to discover during the day.
Location: Whitby
Date: Friday 21st June 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £80
Contact for info: moorcoast@yahoo.com
Website: moorandcoast.co.uk/
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Marsden Americana & Bluegrass Day - 22nd Jun 2024, Marsden, Huddersfield, HD7 6BW, Yorkshire
This one-day festival of folk-roots, bluegrass, old time Americana and country roots music is presented by local concert promoter True North Music. There will be performances by exceptional artists from both sides of the Atlantic, with the acclaimed Jake Blount heading a diverse line-up that ranges across traditional and contemporary folk, bluegrass and acoustic roots. There are also plans for a couple of participatory workshops. Marsden Mechanics is a community run venue in the centre of this picturesque village set in the Yorkshire Pennines. Just steps away are many characterful pubs, cosy cafes and independent shops, and walking and hiking possibilities nearby are numerous. Marsden is just 8 miles from the large town of Huddersfield, with many other picturesque towns and villages within 20-30 minutes (Slaithwaite, Holmfirth, Uppermill etc) and the village is within an hour of Leeds, Manchester, Halifax and Bradford.
Location: Marsden, Huddersfield, HD7 6BW
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2024 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £35
Also available £25 for under 23s
Contact for info:
Website: www.truenorthmusic.co.uk/upcoming-yorkshire-gigs/marsden-americana-bluegrass-day-22-june-2024/
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Boars Bridge Festival - 28th Jun 2024, Boars Bridge, nr Tadley, Hampshire
Boars Bridge Festival is a Charity music festival held over a weekend each year in mid-June.
The 3 day event is held in the lovely grounds of Boars Bridge House near Tadley, Hampshire and although it is a relatively small festival the atmosphere is always lively and fun.
Again this year we are supporting the MS Therapy Centre in Reading.
Go on, support their charity.
Musicians - go play and forget your fee.
Location: Boars Bridge, nr Tadley
Date: Friday 28th June 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available TBA
Contact for info: info@boarsbridgefestival.co.uk
Website: www.boarsbridgefestival.co.uk/
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Folk in the Field - 29th Jun 2024, Shiptonthorpe, Yorkshire
A small event, new to our lists.
Top names, beer festival and great food.
New website now live.
Note how inexpensive this one is!
One of the least expensive paid event.
Location: Shiptonthorpe
Date: Saturday 29th June 2024 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £15
Contact for info:
Website: www.folkinthefield.co.uk/
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Keynsham Music Festival - 1st Jul 2024, Keynsham, Somerset
Part of a seven day music festival, with Saturday being the folk day.
Rated as one of the top three UK free summer events.
Back with a June date again.
Location: Keynsham
Date: Monday 1st July 2024 for 8 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available It's FREE!
Contact for info: info@keynshamfest.co.uk
Website: www.keynshammusicfestival.co.uk/
County: Somerset
Country: England
Cleckheaton Folk Festival - 5th Jul 2024, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire
Established festival in Yorkshire, popular with many people. Craft fair, sessions, and award winning headline acts.
Several local venues.
Lots of big names.
Come along and join in the fun!
In its 34th year!
Location: Cleckheaton
Date: Friday 5th July 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £75
Contact for info: info@cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Website: www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org/
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Moonbeams - 5th Jul 2024, Rose Farm, Kelk, Yorkshire
Back with a new domain name - looks like they forgot to renew the old one.
Not a lot of info on the website yet, however, apart from the list of performers.
There will be a second Moonbeams event this year in September, but there may only be one event next year, in July.
Location: Rose Farm, Kelk
Date: Friday 5th July 2024 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £75
Contact for info: moonbeamsacoustic@hotmail.com
Website: moonbeams.vip
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Womad - 25th Jul 2024, Charlton Park, SN16 9LL, Wiltshire
THE World Music event.
International music resonates throughout the grounds, bounces off trees in the Arboretum, whirls through the green arena and dashes across acres of beautiful grass land which becomes the camping grounds during the last weekend in July. It is truly a unique event and we suggest you come along and experience the beauty for yourself.
Location: Charlton Park, SN16 9LL
Date: Thursday 25th July 2024 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £260
Also available Day tickets too
Contact for info: info@womad.org
Website: womad.co.uk/
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Took place in August last year
Underneath the Stars - 2nd Aug 2024, Cinderhill Farm, Cawthorne near Barnsley, Yorkshire
10th Birthday.
Underneath the Stars Festival is a fresh new summer festival of arts and food. It is a collaboration between Barnsley folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby's family production team, and one of the finest Yorkshire visitor attractions and quality food producer Cannon Hall Open Farm.
The aim is to provide a weekend of world class entertainment in the heart of South Yorkshire, held in a purpose built big-top concert marquee and for the first time this year there will be the opportunity to pitch up and stay at the festival campsite.
Location: Cinderhill Farm, Cawthorne near Barnsley
Date: Friday 2nd August 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £157
Contact for info: +44 (0) 1226 767872
Website: underneaththestarsfest.co.uk
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
London Folk Festival - 8th Aug 2024, The Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone, Greater London
An all day event celebrating the very best that the British Folk Scene has to offer. At the famous The Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone.
Note that the new location has limited capacity, so get your tickets soon.
Location: The Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone
Date: Thursday 8th August 2024 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £70
Contact for info: folkandroots@gmail.com
Website: www.londonfolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Greater London
Country: England
Just So Festival - 16th Aug 2024, Rode Hall, ST7 3QT, Cheshire
A not for profit family music and arts festival and although we don't call ourselves a folk festival the majority of our musical programming is folk, so we thought you might be interested.
Very family focused, with circus acts, music, films, children's entertainment.
Doesn't seem to like my pop-up box so click here instead to view their site.
Location: Rode Hall, ST7 3QT
Date: Friday 16th August 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £165
Also available Day tickets too.
Contact for info: hello@justsofestival.org.uk
Website: www.justsofestival.org.uk/
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Over the Hill - Roots and Blues - 26th Aug 2024, Corn Exchange, Witney, Oxfordshire
After a successful first event, this is their second go at the festival.
Features Americana and roots music. With authentic american food and bars, and beer from a local brewery - Wychwood Brewery, who are also sponsoring the event.
www.facebook.com/overthehillfestival/
Location: Corn Exchange, Witney
Date: Monday 26th August 2024 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £49
Contact for info:
Website: www.ents24.com/festival/over-the-hill-2024-roots-and-blues-festival/6936834
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
The Wail - 30th Aug 2024, Oakfield Farm,Verwood BH31 6JJ, Dorset
A very reasonably priced 3 day event.
Come and join in the singing with some of the finest traditional singers, all hand picked from folk clubs and festivals around the country, some well-known, some not heard of, but all of a high standard. A harvest of song complemented by good company, good food and drink.
Location: Oakfield Farm,Verwood BH31 6JJ
Date: Friday 30th August 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £40
Contact for info: 01225 867031
Website: thewail.co.uk
County: Dorset
Country: England
Took place in September last year
Cheshire Folk Festival - 6th Sep 2024, Hope Farm, Warrington,WA4 4LG, Cheshire
A vibrant celebration of folk music with the aim of having something for all folk music lovers' tastes. Set in the beautiful Cheshire countryside with plenty of space for camping. The festival has a maximum capacity of 500 people.
Location: Hope Farm, Warrington,WA4 4LG
Date: Friday 6th September 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £100
Also available Day tickets - £35
Contact for info: contact@cheshirefolkfestival.com
Website: www.cheshirefolkfestival.com
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Scalby Folk Festival - 6th Sep 2024, Nag's Head, Scalby, YO13 0PT, Yorkshire
A three day event centred on the Nag's Head pub.
You can also view updates on Facebook,
https://www.facebook.com/scalbyfolkfestival
Location: Nag's Head, Scalby, YO13 0PT
Date: Friday 6th September 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available It's FREE
Contact for info: kathrynbell869@gmail.com
Website: scalbyfair.org.uk
County: Yorkshire
Country: England
Tees Folk - 7th Sep 2024, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 1PL, Teeside
In the Stockton Globe Theatre.
Not quite a festival, this is a new celebration of folk music. Featuring folk and acoustic music with several acts who feature at festivals.
Location: Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 1PL
Date: Saturday 7th September 2024 for 1 day(s)
Full Price: £35
Contact for info:
Website: atgtickets.com/shows/tees-folk-2024/stockton-globe/
County: Teeside
Country: England
Peace Through Folk - 13th Sep 2024, Ipstones Village, Staffordshire
The Peace Through Folk has been running since 1976 and stopped in 2018 after 5 years of remembering the Great War. The final Peace Concert in 2018, was an event to have been at, a really memorable occasion. It was felt that we had achieved everything that we could and it would be the right time to stop. However, we have now realised that there is still a need for the Peace Through Folk Gathering, especially in these dark days, with so many issues around the world. So the Gathering has been resurrected and is once again taking place at Hulme End, in the Peak District, this September.
Location: Ipstones Village
Date: Friday 13th September 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £95
Contact for info: enquiries.peacethroughfolk@gmail.com
Website: www.peacethroughfolk.com
County: Staffordshire
Country: England
Deepdale Festival - 26th Sep 2024, Burnham, PE31 8DD, Norfolk
With a great line-up, this looks as if it could be a good weekend out. And it's day tickets are not expensive either, if you have limited time available.
Come and enjoy some great live music, spoken word, drum workshops, street entertainment and the chilled atmosphere.
Location: Burnham, PE31 8DD
Date: Thursday 26th September 2024 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £90
Also available Day tickets too
Contact for info: 01485 210256
Website: www.deepdalebackpackers.co.uk/festival/
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Took place in October last year
Tenterden Folk Festival - 3rd Oct 2024, Tenterden, Kent
A four day long festival of folk song, music, dance, crafts and traditions. Tenterden, situated in the ancient Weald of Kent, about 12 miles west of Ashford, is an ideal setting for this friendly, family festival of folk. Tenterden features one of the widest High Streets in the country lined with historic and listed buildings, numerous friendly pubs and restaurants and green verges. The festival includes many free events.
Location: Tenterden
Date: Thursday 3rd October 2024 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £65
Also available Individual event tickets too
Contact for info:
Website: www.tenterdenfolkfestival.com/Tenterden-Folk-Festival/
County: Kent
Country: England
London Roots Festival - 18th Oct 2024, London, various venues, Greater London
Covers a variety of music styles.
Not the normal many acts in one place sort of event, but an event spread around under the one banner.
You might find something that suits you.
Spread out over a month.
Site not fully updated yet.
Location: London, various venues
Date: Friday 18th October 2024 for 30 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available Various locations, and tickets
Contact for info: david@dmpuk.com
Website: londonrootsfestival.com/
County: Greater London
Country: England
Lowender - 25th Oct 2024, Redruth, TR15 1TA, Cornwall
Lowender, the festival that celebrates Cornish culture and its Celtic connections, is returning to Redruth, Wednesday 25th - Saturday 29th October 2023.
Expect Cornish music, dance, song and fun for all the family with a host of international Celtic performers from Brittany, the Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Music performances, dance sessions and workshops will be taking place in locations across Redruth Town Centre during the 4-day festival, whilst the main evening events will take to the stage at Redruth School.
Tickets are on sale now and kids go free!
This year will see Lowender, which has developed from the Lowender Peran festival, grow into a new organisation where connecting communities and championing Cornwall’s living traditions on a national and international scale is at the core of its values.
For over 40 years Lowender Peran developed an interCeltic festival, creating a powerful network of international friends, celebrating cultural exchange and helping to open Cornish culture to a wider audience.
Location: Redruth, TR15 1TA
Date: Friday 25th October 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £62
Also available And individual event tickets, some free events.
Contact for info: + 44 (0)7586 080623
Website: www.lowender.co.uk
County: Cornwall
Country: England
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