UK Folk Festivals - Coming Soon

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.

An annual medieval music festival wholly dedicated to medieval music-making. It's unique in the UK.

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

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.

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

A mixed genre event, with a folk element for you to enjoy. More than 25 venues and 250 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.

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.

It's a festival about guitars - the clue's in the name. So fair bit of acoustic stuff.

A celebration of the guitar. It is not starch collared or stuffy nosed, from virtuosos.

The Festival is run by a small not for profit organisation of music lovers and we are very proud of the rich, relaxed, educational, exciting & artistic environment our festival creates in our beautiful seaside town.

For the duration of our festival our whole town is the stage with performances & events happening in all manner of venue from the local schools & library to the bars & butcher shops!

A great little festival on a great little island - described as a remote Atlantic rock (with 120 people on it).

Support this special event.

Usually about half the tickets are pre-booked, so don't miss out by leaving things too late.

It runs for three days and is priced very reasonably indeed.

Includes workshops, open sessions, craft stalls and Ceilidh.

Site now updated.

Hartlepool Folk Festival has a new home and a new name too!

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.

Site just starting to update things on out last visit.

This is the 35th event!
Featuring some big names in the folk genre and talented local artists as well.
Near Leeds.

For the fourth time.

Celebrate the summer's harvest with three days of community revelry: garden-to-table feasts, renowed guest speakers, and a rich lineup of artists from the folk and global dance music tradtion.

Only 500 tickets! Don't miss out on this one by leaving things to the last minute.

Site not fully updated on our last visit.

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.

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.

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.

Ours is a small village based festival, booking about a dozen bands and artists for the festival weekend. We use our village hall and our local church as our main music venues (They have an audience capacity of about 200 each). We also organise a family ceilidh and free gigs in the local pubs and open mic sessions at the Forge Studios and Café. We also use the church hall, our library, the Medway Building at Higher Ground and Allendale Methodist Church for our spoken word events and workshops. Guided walks take place and dance with various Clog and Morris dance teams happens in the village centre on the Saturday afternoon of the festival weekend. On the Saturday evening, the Allendale Wolf bonfire is burnt.

Established in 2014, celebrating the best in folk music, traditional dance and workshops.

32nd Anniversary !

6000 deer. 200 people. 1 Jura Music Festival.

A music festival with a leaning towards traditional music, but other genres as well. A well-established favourite for lovers of the traditional music scene.

PS No need to bring your own deer.

A newish one day event, spread over four locations in Leicester. 2025 was it's first festival, and they enjoyed it so much, it's back for a 2nd time. With the added bonus that it is FREE.

Details seem to be on Facebook instead of their actual website. So we have switched to that instead of https://www.folkatthebarlow.com/
But we give both urls here.
https://www.facebook.com/events/the-barlow-bolton-road-edgworth-bl7-0ap-bolton-united-kingdom/edgworth-folk-festival-2026/25865985873075841/

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).

New Event!
Replaces the old Hartlepool Folk Festival

Multiple locations within Hartlepool. So help this new event by turning up!

Traditional music from Ireland and England too. One of the major Irish festivals.

47th event!

Since its birth in 1979, Cork Folk Festival has earned a reputation for bringing together some of the biggest names on the traditional and folk scene - as well as championing some of its up-and-coming stars.

2026 will be their 36th event.

The site had just been update on our last visit, so the ticket prices have not yet been update.

But as this will be the 36th time it will be on, it must be a good and popular event.

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.

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!

site not fully updated on our last visit.

Not fully updated on our last visit.

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.

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.