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JANUARY 2009
Jan 9-11 Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.
01733 204348
http://www.strawbear.org.uk/
FEBRUARY 2009
Mar 10-12 Burnley National Blues Festival, Lancashire
01282 664400
boxoffice@burnley.gov.uk
www.burnleymechanics.co.ukblues/index.php
Feb 13-15 Cheltenham Folk Festival, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
01242 227979
www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk
Feb 27-28 Alcester Folk Festival, Nr Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire.
07788 536605
information@alcesterfolkfestival.org
www.alcesterfolkfestival.org
Feb 28 Chester February Folk Day. Hoole Community Centre, Chester, Cheshire
07005 977045
www.chesterfolk.org.ukfolkday.htm
MARCH 2009
Mar 1 Alcester Folk Festival, Nr Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
07788 536605
information@alcesterfolkfestival.org
www.alcesterfolkfestival.org
Mar 20-22 Gateshead International Jazz Festival, Co. Durham
0191 443 4661
john.nassau@thesagegateshead.org
http://www.thesagegateshead.org
Mar 20-22 Oxford Folk Festival, Oxfordshire
01865 305305
info@oxfordfolkfestival.com
www.oxfordfolkfestival.com
Mar 22-13 Apr Edinburgh’s Ceilidh Culture, Edinburgh, Scotland.
01312 281155
info@ceilidhculture.co.uk
www.ceilidhculture.co.uk
Mar 28 Melodeons & More, Mendlesham, Suffolk.
01449 771090
info@eatmt.fsnet.co.uk
www.eatmt.org.uk/melodeons_in_mid_suffolk_&_more.htm
APRIL 2009
April 3-8 Edinburgh Harp Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland.
01314 788446
administrator@harpfestival.co.uk
www.harpfestival.co.uk
Apr 9-12 Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival, Fareham, Hampshire.
01329 231942
eastfest@talk21.com
www.gosportfestival.co.ukindex.html
Apr 9-12 Oxford Jazz Festival, Oxfordshire
http://www.oxfordfolkfestival.com
Apr 17-19 Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering, Northumberland.
01670 513308.
enquiries@northumbriana.org.uk
http://www.northumbriana.org.uk/gathering
Apr 24-26 Crediton Folk Weekend, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon.
01363 77 5695
creditonfolkfestival@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/crediton/
Apr 24-26 Scandimoot, Austwick and Settle, Yorkshire
patlindop@hotmail.com
Apr 25
Riversmeet Arts and Heritage Festival,
Christchurch, Dorset
If you would like a stall 07914 398321
newartspaces@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.riversmeetarts.co.uk
Apr 28-4 May Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Monmouthshire
08445 768970
jemma.price@cheltenhamfestivals.com
http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/jazz
Apr 29-4 May Wath Festival, Wath Upon Dearne, Yorkshire
07982 658467
wathfestival@btinternet.co.uk
http://www.wathfestival.org.uk/
Apr 30-3 May Shetland Folk Festival, Lerwick & other venues, Shetland.
01595 694757
info@shetlandfolkfestival.com
www.shetlandfolkfestival.com
MAY 2009
May 1 Jack-In-The-Green Awakening Bluebell Hill, Kent.
01622 726633
cnewton25@aol.com
May 1 King’s Lynn May Garland Procession, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
01553 768930
paljac7@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.thekingsmorris.co.uk/
May 1-3 Glasgow Rhythm & Blues Festival, Scotland
Tickets@tickets-scotland.com
www.glasgowrhythmandbluesfestival.com
May 1-3 Moor & Coast Festival Of Traditional Music, Song, & Arts, Whitby, Yorkshire.
01947
820408
moorcoast@yahoo.com
www.moorandcoast.co.uk
May 1-4 Eastbourne International Folkdance Festival, Sussex.
01872 561002
eastfolk@hotmail.co.uk
www.eiff.org.uk
May 1-4 Hastings Traditional Jack In The Green, Sussex.
01424 716576
chairman@hastingsjack.co.uk
www.hastingsjack.co.uk
May 1-4 Upton Upon Severn Folk Festival, Warwickshire
01594 832910
boxoffice@uptonfolk.org
www.uptonfolk.org
May 2-3 Bushy’s Big Wheel Blues Festival, Laxey, Isle of Man.
01624 673898
bigwheelfest@manx.net
www.bigwheelblues.com
May 2-4 Adult Feis - Fèis Rois Inbhich, Ullapool, Cromartyshire, Scotland .
01349 862600
allison.watson@feisrois.org
http://www.feisrois.org/
May 2-4 Clun Green Man Festival, Clun, Shropshire.
01588 640305
greenman@whi-clun.co.uk
www.clungreenman.org.uk
May 2-4 Rochester Sweeps Festival, Kent.
01634 843666
visitor.centre@medway.gov.uk
http://www.medway.gov.uk/sweepsfestival
May 2-18 Heart Of The World, Cambridge. Cambridgeshire
01223 357851
admin.cornex@cambridge.gov.uk
http://www.heartoftheworld.co.uk/
May 2-24 Brighton Festival, Brighton, Sussex.
01273 700747
info@brightonfestival.org
http://www.brightonfestival.org/
May 4
Festival At The Crown,
Heaton Lane, Stockport, Cheshire
kieronahartley@yahoo.co.uk
May 7-9 Big Whistle Weekend, Bury, Lancashire
01617 612216
post@themet.biz
http://themet.biz/bigwhistle/
May 8-10 Clennell Hall Folk Festival, Clennell, Alwinton, Northumberland.
07984 828691
dave@clennellhallhotel.com
www.clennellhallhotel.comid19.html
May 8-10 Folk On The Pier, Cromer, Norfolk.
01263 512495
info@deckchairproductions.co.uk
http://www.folkonthepier.co.uk/
May 8-10 Holmfirth Folk Festival, Yorkshire
01484 222444
holmfirth.tic@kirklees.gov.uk
www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk
May 8-10 Tredegar House Folk Festival, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.
01633 246241
susieoates@bushell100.fsnet.co.uk
www.tredegarhousefolk.ik.com
May 9-25 Katiesfest, Stourbridge, Worcestershire
01384 374410
enquiries@katiefitzgeralds.co.uk
http://www.katiesfest.com/
May 14-17 Hurdy-gurdy Festival Youlgrave, Derbyshire
gurdyfest@yahoo.co.uk
www.hurdy.co.uk
May 14-17 Raunds Music Festival, Northamptonshire
07756 015615
info@raundsfestival.com
www.raundsfestival.com
May 15-16 Winchester Mayfest, Hampshire.
07807 084219
info@winmayfest.co.uk
http://www.winmayfest.co.uk/2009/
May 15-17 Bearded Theory Festival, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
01527 592756
info@beardedtheory.co.uk
http://www.beardedtheory.co.uk
May 15-17 Berwyn Festival, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Wales.
01691 600310
info@berwynfestival.co.uk
www.berwynfestival.co.uk
May 15-17 English Originals Folk Festival, Town Hall, Birmingham.
01217 803333
boxoffice@thsh.co.uk
http://www.thsh.co.uk/
May 15-17 Shepley Spring Festival, Yorkshire.
01484 604704
info@shepleyspringfestival.com
www.shepleyspringfestival.com
May 15-17 Wheaton Aston Festival, Staffordshire
CANCELLED
01785 840010
info@wheatonastonfestival.co.uk
www.wheatonastonfestival.co.uk
May 15-17 Wood, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.
07811 436791
drew@thisistruck.com
http://www.thisistruck.com
May 20-24 Folkworks Hexham Gathering, Hexham, Northumberland.
01914 434661
ticketoffice@thesagegateshead.org
http://www.thesagegateshead.org
May 21-23 Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival, Beverley Yorkshire
01904 632220
info@ncem.co.uk
http://www.ncem.co.uk
May 21-24 Knockengorroch World Ceilidh, Knockengorroch Farm, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
01644 460662
katch@knockengorroch.org.uk
http://www.knockengorroch.org.uk
May 21-24 Orkney Folk Festival, Stromness & other venues, Orkney.
01856 851331
info@orkneyfolkfestival.com
www.orkneyfolkfestival.com
May 21-24 World Ceilidh, Carsphairn, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
01644 460662
info@knockengorroch.org.uk
www.knockengorroch.org.uk
May 21-24 Coventry Jazz Festival, Warwickshire
02476 294528
jazz@cvone.co.uk
http://www.coventryjazzfestival.com
May 21-25 Melody Doris, Nr. Taunton, Somerset.
0845 4580190
tribeofdoris@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.tribeofdoris.co.uk
May 22-23 Ireby Festival, nr Wigton, Cumberland.
01697 371645
irebyfestival@tiscali.co.uk
http://www.musicinireby.co.uk
May 22-24 May Fest - Acoustic, Roots ’N’ Blues, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
01476 406158
c.carrington@southkesteven.gov.uk
http://www.guildhallartscentre.com
May 22-24 Off The Tracks Spring Festival, Isley Walton, nr Castle Donington, Leicestershire
01332 384518
info@offthetracks.co.uk
www.offthetracks.co.uk
May 22-25 Acoustic Festival Of Britain, Nantwich, Cheshire.
01269 597118
info@artists2events.co.uk
www.acousticfestival.co.uk
May 22-25 Black Horse Festival, Telham, nr Battle, Sussex.
01424 429840
jshotton@keme.co.uk
www.blackhorsefestival.org.uk
May 22-25 Chester Folk Festival, Kelsall, nr Chester. Cheshire
07005 977045
festival@chesterfolk.org.uk
www.chesterfolk.org.uk
May 22-25 Chippenham Folk Festival, Wiltshire
01249 657190
info@chippfolk.co.uk
www.chippfolk.co.uk
May 22-25 Dulverton Folk Festival, Somerset.
01398 323776
sugan@supanet.com
http://www.dulvertonfolkfestival.net
May 22-25 Fishguard Folk Festival, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
01348 875183
storesman@landstrider.freeserve.co.uk
www.pembrokeshire-folk-music.co.ukFestival.htm
May 22-25 Ryedale Folk Weekend, Hutton le Hole, Yorkshire
01287 660200
moorfolk@googlemail.com
www.myspace.com/ryedalefolkweekend
May 22-6 Jun Bath International Music Festival, Bath, Somerset
01225 463362
info@bathfestivals.org.uk
http://www.bathmusicfest.org.uk
May 23-6 Jun Swaledale Festival, Yorkshire
01748 880018
info@swaledale-festival.org.uk
www.swaledale-festival.org.uk
May 25-30 Morland Scottish Country Dancing Week, Morland, Penrith, Cumberland.
01931 714147
davidjonesnewby@ukonline.co.uk
http://www.newbyendfarm.co.uk/activities.html
May 28-31 Bude & Stratton Folk Festival, Bude, Cornwall.
01288 341582
lucyburrow@aol.com
http://www.budefolk.com
May 28-31 The Sunrise Celebration, Bearley Farm, South Somerset.
08450 096347
info@sunrisecelebration.com
www.sunrisecelebration.comhome.php
May 29-30 Blowout Bagpipe Festival, Polesworth, nr Tamworth, Staffordshire.
01327 705265
ian@zootalors.co.uk
http://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk
May 29-31 Cottingham Springboard Music Festival, nr Hull, Yorkshire
01482 847340
http://springboard.bravehost.com
29-31 Southport International Jazz Festival, Lancashire
01704 533333
events@visitsouthport.com
http://www.visitsouthport.com/jazz/home
May 29-31 Jun The Wychwood Music Festival, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
01993 772580
info@wychwoodfestival.com
www.wychwoodfestival.com
May 30-1 Jun Suffolk Folk Festival, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
01473 785180
paul@salmonp56.fsnet.co.uk
www.onesuffolk.co.ukSuffolkFolkFestival/
JUNE 2009
Jun 5-7 Coastline Bluegrass Music Event 2008. Plas Uchaf Farm, Llandudno Junction, Wales
coastline1@hotmail.co.uk
www.coastlinebluegrass.co.uk
Jun 5-6 Wallingford Blues & Beer Festival, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
01491 834665
normawhelan@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.bluesandbeer.co.uk/
Jun 5-7 Kirtlington Lamb Ale Morris Festival, Oxfordshire
07780 993396
steve_hanley@lineone.net
http://www.kirtlington-morris.org.uk/
Jun 5-7 ST Neots Folk Festival, Cambridgeshire
01234 376278
stneotsfolkclub@aol.com
www.stneotsfolkclub.co.uk
Jun 5-7 Gate To Southwell Folk Festival, Southwell, Nottinghamshire
01636 812852
info@southwellfolkfestival.org.uk
www.southwellfolkfestival.org.uk
Jun 5-7 Thimbleberry Music Festival, Thimbleby Hill Farm, Stanhope, Co. Durham.
01388 527573
andy@thimbleberry.co.uk
http://www.weird.uk.com/
Jun 5-7 Wessex Folk Festival, Weymouth, Dorset.
07801 097891
info@wessexfolkfestival.co.uk
www.wessexfolkfestival.co.uk
Jun 5-7 Wirral Folk On The Coast Festival, Bromborough, Wirral, Cheshire.
01516 520734 (Box Office) 01516 789902 (General Inquiries)
email info@wirralfolkonthecoast.com
www.wirralfolkonthecoast.com
Jun 8-19 Spitalfields Festival, Tower Hamlets, London.
020 7377 0287
info@spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk
www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk
Jun 11-14 Kirkcudbright Jazz Festival, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
http://www.kirkcudbrightjazzfestival.co.uk
Jun 12-14 Abersoch Jazz Festival, Caerarfonshire, Wales
01758 712000
enquiries@abersochtouristinfo.co.uk
http://abersoch.co.uk/jazzfestival
Jun 12-14 Gower Folk Festival, Parkmill, Gower Peninsula, Wales.
01792 850803
joy.toole@halfpennyfolkclub.com
http://www.halfpennyfolkclub.com/folkfestival.htm
Jun 12-14 Ipswich Riverside Folk Weekend, Ipswich, Suffolk.
01473 601902
paul@irfmf.org.uk
www.irfmf.org.uk
Jun 12-14 Raglan Folk Festival, Monmouthshire, Wales.
01291 691119
robyatkins@sky.com
http://www.raglan-festival.org/
Jun 12-14 T.M.S.A. Keith Festival, Keith, Banffshire, Scotland.
01542 882638
kilvrecht21@aol.com keithfestival@btinternet.com
www.keithfestival.btinternet.co.uk
Jun 12-14 Wimborne Folk Festival, Wimborne Minster, Dorset.
01202 623740
linda.wild@wimbornefolkfestival.co.uk
www.wimbornefolkfestival.co.uk
Jun 12-28 Exeter Summer Festival, Exeter, Devon.
01392 265200
festival@exeter.gov.uk
http://www.exeter.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4162
Jun 13 Blues & Booze In The Bury, Odiham, Hampshire.
01256 702128
ptrfount@aol.com
http://www.odihamcommunity.org.uk/blog/2009/03/blues_booze_in_the_bury_2009
Jun 13-14 Crich Tramway Village Folk Festival, nr Matlock, Derbyshire.
01773 854321
enquiry@tramway.co.uk
http://www.tramway.co.uk/
Jun 13-14 Leamington Peace Festival, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
0870 770 4098
info@peacefestival.org.uk
www.peacefestival.org.uk
Jun 18-21 Blues On The Farm, Chichester, Sussex.
01243 773828
info@bluesonthefarm.co.uk
www.pumpbottomfarm.co.uk
Jun 19-21 Alcester Folk Festival, Alcester, Warwickshire.
07788 536605
marjestanley@googlemail.com
http://www.alcesterfolkfestival.org/
Jun 19-21 Beverley & East Riding Folk Festival, Beverley, Yorkshire
01377 217569
info@beverleyfestival.com
www.beverleyfestival.com
Jun 19-21 Big Session Festival, De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
01162 333111
dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk www.oysterband.co.uk
www.bigsessionfestival.com
Jun 19-21 English Country Music Weekend, Ampthill, Bedfordshire.
01462 456974
taztarry@btinternet.com
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/ecmw.htm
Jun 19-21 Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival, Cheshire.
01606 835832
tim.turner8@virgin.net
www.midfest.org.ukmfab/
Jun 19-21 Redlist Live, Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent.
CANCELLED
info@redlistlive.com
http://www.redlistlive.com/
Jun 19-21 Scarborough Fayre Weekend of Dance & Music, Spa, Scarborough, Yorkshire
01723 862842
sadoyle04@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.yorkshirecoastmorris.org.uk
Jun 19-21 Teignmouth Midsummer Folk Festival, Teignmouth, Devon.
01626 866395
info@teignmouthfolk.co.uk
www.teignmouthfolk.co.uk
Jun 19-4 Jul Grassington Festival Of Music & Arts, Grassington, nr Skipton, Yorkshire
01756 752691
boxoffice@grassington-festival.org.uk
http://www.grassington-festival.org.uk/
Jun 19-9 Jul City Of London Festival, London.
02077 964949
admin@colf.org
www.colf.org
Jun 20 Midsummer Jazz, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight.
01983 882204
liz.tagart@iwsteamrailway.co.uk
http://www.midsummerjazz.net/
Jun 20 Treuddyn Village Festival, Flintshire, Wales
01352 770946
info@treuddynfestival.org.uk
http://www.treuddynfestival.org.uk
Jun 20 Wessex Acoustic Al Fresco, Pimperne, nr Blandford, Dorset.
01202 690856
wessexacoustic@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.wessex-acoustic.co.uk/
Jun 20-21 Africa Oye, Sefton Park, Liverpool. Lancashire
01517 086305
info@africaoye.com
www.africaoye.com
Jun 24-28 Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
01458 834596
office@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/
Jun 24-28 Leigh Folk Festival, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
01702 477592
info-07@leighfolkfestival.co.uk
www.leighfolkfestival.co.uk
Jun 25-28 Lichfield Real Ale, Jazz & Blues Festival, Staffordshire
01543 262223
info@lichfieldarts.org.uk
www.lichfieldarts.org.uk
Jun 26-27 Togfest All Music Festival, Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes. Buckinghamshire
01908 311557
info@togfest.org
http://www.togfest.org/pages/home/index.php
Jun 26-28 Belper Music Festival, Belper, Derbyshire.
07983 250980
mail@belpermusicfestival.org.uk
Jun 26-28 Bradfield Traditional Music Weekend, High Bradfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire
01142 851479
edeophone@aol.com
Jun 26-28 Crawley Folk Festival, Crawley, Sussex.
01293 552941
dave.watmore@crawley.gov.uk
www.myspace.com/crawleyfolkfestival
Jun 26-28 Dent Folk Festival, Yorkshire
01524 582803
dentfolkfestival@talk21.com
www.dentfolkfestival.co.uk
Jun 26-28 Dentdale Music Festival, Yorkshire
01539 625022
matthew@lowhaycotebarn.com
http://www.dentmusicandbeer.com
Jun 26-28 Folk At The Festival, St Albans, Herts.
01727 827667
festival@leisureconnection.co.uk
www.stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk
Jun 26-28 St Albans Folk At The Festival, St Albans, Hertfordshire.
017272 852111
info@stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk
http://www.stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk/
Jun 26-28 Towerfest Country Music Festival, Drax, nr Selby, Yorkshire.
01405 761805
nigel@spectramedia.co.uk
http://www.towerfest.co.uk/
Jun 26-28 Traditions Festival & Newburgh Morris Weekend of Dance, Lostock Hall, nr Preston, Lancashire
01257 263678
traditionsfestival@madontrad.org.uk
www.madontrad.org.uk
Jun 30-4 Jul Grassington Festival Of Music & Arts, Grassington, Yorkshire
01756 752691
boxoffice@grassington-festival.org.uk
www.grassington-festival.org.uk
JULY 2009
Jul 2-5 North Wales Bluegrass Music Festival, Conwy, Wales.
01492 580454
northwalesbluegrass@hotmail.com
www.northwalesbluegrass.co.uk
Jul 2-18 Chester Summer Music Festival, Cheshire
01244 320722
kate@chestersummermusicfestival.co.uk
http://www.chesterfestivals.co.uk/site/music
Jul 3-5 Beatherder Festival, Ribble Valley, Lancashire
01535 673399
contact@beatherder.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/beatherderfestival
Jul 3-5 Beyond The Border, St Donats, Glamorgan, Wales.
01446 799100
enquiries@stdonats.com
http://www.beyondtheborder.com
Jul 3-5 Cleckheaton Folk Festival, Yorkshire
01274 879761
info@cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Jul 3-5 Dove Holes International Beer & Jazz Festival, Derbyshire
01298 814722
http://dovejazzclub.co.uk/festival2009.aspx
Jul 3-5 National Forest Folk Festival, Moira, Nr Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
01676 540219
mscott@affc.demon.co.uk
http://www.affc.demon.co.uk
Jul 3-5 Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
ntmfsecretary@googlemail.com
http://www.newcastleton.com/intro.html
Jul 3-5 TTF Song & Ale, Upper Dicker, Sussex.
01323 896682
ttfsussexsongandale@hotmail.com
http://beehive.thisiskentandeastsussex.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=3495&PageID=42077
Jul 3-5 Two Rivers Folk Festival, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
07870 611979
info@tworiversfolkfestival.com
www.tworiversfolkfestival.com
Jul 3-12 Frome Festival, Frome, Somerset.
01373 453889
office@fromefestival.co.uk
http://www.fromefestival.co.uk
Jul 4-5 Rhythms Of The World, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
01462 454649
info@rotw.org.uk
http://www.rotw.org.uk
Jul 4-19 Brass: Durham International Festival, Co Durham.
01913 708820
james.lowther@durham.gov.uk
http://www.brassfestival.co.uk
Jul 4-19 Gillingham Festival, Gillingham, Dorset
08454 810490
http://www.gillinghamfestival.org.uk
Jul 7-12 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, N. Wales.
01978 862000
info@international-eisteddfod.co.uk
http://www.llangollen2009.com
Jul 9-12 Americana International, Newark, Nottingham
01159 390595
silvereagleuk@ntlworld.com
http://www.americana-international.co.uk
Jul 8-12 Henley Festival Of Music & Arts, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
01491 843400
info@henley-festival.co.uk
www.henley-festival.co.uk
Jul 9-12 Stonehaven Folk Festival, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
01569 766211
sff_tickets@yahoo.co.uk
www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk
Jul 9-19 Lichfield Festival, Staffsordshire
01543 306270
info@lichfieldfestival.org
www.lichfieldfestival.org
Jul 10 Moonbeams Wold Top Folk Festival, Wold Top Brewery, Hunmanby , Wold Newton, Yorkshire
07949 974573
http://www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk
Jul 10-11 Beggars Fair, Romsey, Hampshire
01794 518960
beggarsfair2009@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.beggars-fair.org
Jul 10-11 Heavenly Planet Festival, Reading, Berkshire
01189 606060
info@heavenlyplanetfestival.co.uk
http://www.heavenlyplanetfestival.co.uk
Jul 10-12 Bromsgrove Folk Festival, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
01527 831577
bromsgroveman@hotmail.com
www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk
Jul 10-12 Ely Folk Festival, Cambridgeshire
01353 669985
info@elyfolk.co.uk
www.elyfolk.co.uk
Jul 10-12 Furness Tradition Festival, Ulverston, Cumberland.
01229 582704
kermode@mypostoffice.co.uk
http://www.furnesstradition.org.uk
Jul 10-12 Fuse: Event In A Tent, Lichfield, Staffordshire
01543 262223
info@lichfieldarts.org.uk
www.lichfieldarts.org.ukfestivals.asp
Jul 10-12 Guilfest, Guildford, Surrey.
01483 454159
info@guilfest.co.uk
www.guilfest.co.uk
Jul 10-12 International Pipe & Tabor Festival, Gloucester. Gloucestershire
01453 763181
steve@artension.com
www.pipeandtabor.orgfestival.html
Jul 10-12 Priddy Folk Festival, Priddy, nr Wells, Somerset.
01749 678949
priddyinfo@priddyfolk.org
www.priddyfolk.org
Jul 10-12 Rothbury Traditional Music Festival, Northumberland.
01669 620419
enquiries@rothbury-traditional-music.co.uk
http://www.rothbury-traditional-music.co.uk
Jul 10-12 Spratton Folk Festival, Northamptonshire
07751 199501
admin@sprattonfestival.com
www.sprattonfestival.com
Jul 10-12 Workhouse Festival, Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, Wales.
07890 458561
info@workhousefestival.co.uk
www.workhousefestival.co.uk
Jul 10-18 York Early Music Festival, York, Yorkshire
01904 658338
info@ncem.co.uk
http://www.ncem.co.uk
Jul 11 Ruskin House Folk & Blues Festival, Croydon, Surrey.
01737 553493
folkandbluesorg@hotmail.com
http://www.folkandblues.org
Jul 11 Moonbeams Wold Top Folk Festival, Wold Top Brewery, Hunmanby, Wold Newton, Nr Driffield.
07949 974573
www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk
Jul 11-12 Cornbury Music Festival, Cornbury Park, Oxford.
08714 720420
mail@cornburyfestival.com
www.cornburyfestival.com
Jul 11-12 Clogfest, Skipton, Yorkshire
01282 868040
paul@clogfest.org
www.clogfest.org
Jul 11-12 Folkstation, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight.
01983 882269
alcolm.hector@googlemail.com
http://www.folkstation.co.uk
Jul 15-18 Hebridean Celtic Festival, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis.
01851 621234
info@hebceltfest.com
www.hebceltfest.com
Jul 15-19 Larmer Tree Festival, Tollard Royal, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
01725 552300
info@larmertreefestival.co.uk
www.larmertreefestival.co.uk
Jul 15-19 Yn Chruinnaght Inter-Celtic Festival, Ramsey and Peel, Isle of Man.
07624 425957
ynchruinnaght@manx.net
http://www.ynchruinnaght.com
Jul 17-18 2000 Trees, Upcote Farm, nr Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
info@twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk
http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk
Jul 17-19 Brampton Live, Brampton, Cumberland.
01237 451933
sue.emerging@btinternet.com
www.bramptonlive.net
Jul 17-19 Festival At The Edge, Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
01939 236626
info@festivalattheedge.org
www.festivalattheedge.org
Jul 17-19 Saddleworth Folk Festival, Uppermill, Nr Oldham, Lancashire
01457 870391
info@safra.org.uk
www.safra.org.uk
Jul 17-19 Stainsby Festival, nr Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
01246 559036
info@stainsbyfestival.org.uk
http://www.stainsbyfestival.org.uk
Jul 17-19 Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, Tolpuddle, nr Dorchester, Dorset.
0117 947 0521
southwest@tuc.org.uk
www.tuc.org.ukthe_tuc/index.cfm?mins=75&minors=75
Jul 18 Small Nations Forever, Llandovery, Wales.
01550 720321
info@smallnations.co.uk
http://www.smallnations.co.uk
Jul 18-24 Festival Of Sacred Dance Music & Song, Findhorn, Moray, Scotland.
01309 690311
enquiries@findhorn.org
http://www.findhorn.org/index.php?tz=-60
Jul 23-26 Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, Wiltshire
01225 769132
enquiries@trowbridgefestival.co.uk
www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk
Jul 24-26 Limetree Festival, Grewelthorpe near Ripon, Yorkshire.
07951 943191
karen.birdsall@hotmail.co.uk
http://limetreefestival.co.uk
Jul 24-26 Lomond Folk Festival, Balloch, Loch Lomond, Scotland.
01389 757561
info@lomondfolkfestival.com
www.lomondfolkfestival.com
Jul 24-26 Maryport Bitter & Blues Festival, Cumberland
01900 817200
info@maryportblues.com
www.maryportblues.com
Jul 24-26 Seafest International Maritime Festival, Scarborough, Yorkshire
01287 660200
jeanette-grainger@tiscali.co.uk
www.myspace.com/seafestscarborough
Jul 24-26 Warwick Folk Festival. Warwick, Warwickshire
01926 614932
boxoffice@warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
Jul 24-26 Womad Festival, CharltonPark, Malmesbury, Wiltshire
08451 461735
info@womad.org
http://womad.org?festival_id=46
Jul 24- 1 Aug Manchester Jazz Festival. Lancashire
01612 280663
http://www.manchesterjazz.com
Jul 24-8 Aug International Guitar Festival, Bath. Somerset
01225 875522
e.ginn@bathspa.ac.uk
http://www.igf.org.uk
Jul 25-2 Aug Gloucester International Rhythm & Blues Festival. Gloucester, Gloucestershire
01452 412828
info@gloucesterblues.co.uk
www.gloucesterblues.co.uk
Jul 26 Folk By The Oak, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
01432 355 416.
info@folkbytheoak.com
http://www.folkbytheoak.com
Jul 30-2Aug Cambridge Folk Festival. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
01223 457555
folkfest@cambridge.gov.uk
www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk
Jul 30-2 Aug Stokes Bay & Wickham Festival, nr Fareham, Hampshire
01329 231942
eastfest@talk21.com
www.stokesbayfestival.co.uk
Jul 30-8 Aug AIYF: The World Festival Of Youth Arts, Aberdeen & Northeast Scotland.
01224 213800
info@aiyf.org
www.aiyf.org
Jul 31-2 Aug Bull Bay Music Festival, Bull Bay Hotel, Anglesey, Wales
01407 830223
jobullbay@btconnect.com
http://www.walestouristsonline.co.uk/anglesey/hotels/bullbayhotel.html
Jul 31-2 Aug Guildtown Bluegrass Music Festival, nr Perth, Scotland.
01259 214908
secretary@scottishbluegrass.com
www.scottishbluegrass.com
Jul 31-7 Aug Sidmouth Folk Week, E Devon.
01395 578627
info@sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
AUGUST 2009
Aug 1 Field Day 2009, Victoria Park, London E9.
08444 771000
http://www.fielddayfestivals.com
Aug 1-2 Eastbourne Lammas Festival, Sussex.
01323 735364
greenmangallery@lineone.net
www.lammasfest.org
Aug 2 Carnaval Del Pueblo, Burgess Park, London SE5.
heritage@carnavaldelpueblo.co.uk
http://www.carnavaldelpueblo.co.uk/english.html
Aug 2-7 Blues Week, University of Northampton.
01242 701 765
info@euroblues.org
http://www.euroblues.co.uk
Aug 2-7 Ot Azoy! Yiddish Crash Course, SOAS, London.
02089 092445
y.glass@jmi.org.uk
http://www.jmi.org.uk
Aug 4-8 African Drum Village, Glen Isla Village, Angus, Scotland.
07971 535099
kshaden@lycos.com
www.africandrumvillage.comindex.htm
Aug 6-9 Cambridge Rock Festival, Cambridgeshire
01353 749749
info@cambridgerockfestival.co.uk
http://cambridgerockfestival.co.uk
Aug 7-8 Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Beauly, Invernessshire, Scotland.
01463 741336
www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
Aug 7-9 The Big Chill Festival, Malvern Hills, Herefordshire.
02076 842020
info@bigchill.net
www.bigchill.net/
Aug 7-9 Dartmoor Folk Festival, South Zeal, Okehampton, Devon.
01837 840102
enquiries@dartmoorfolkfestival.co.uk
www.dartmoorfolkfestival.co.uk
Aug 7-9 Kelsall Jazz Festival, Morris Dancer, Kelsall, Cheshire
01829 751291
http://www.btinternet.com/~jazzworld/kelsall.htm
Aug 7-14 Broadstairs Folk Week, Kent.
01843 604080
info@broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk
www.broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk
Aug 8-15 Morland Folk Dance Week, nr Penrith, Cumberland
01931 714147
davidjonesnewby@ukonline.co.uk
www.newbyendfarm.co.uk
Aug 9-14 Klezfest London, Soas, University of London.
020 8909 2445
francesca@jmi.org.uk
http://www.jmi.org.uk/
Aug 10-16 Bideford Folk Festival, Devon.
01237 425740
andy@bidefordfolkfestival.co.uk
www.bidefordfolkfestival.co.uk
Aug 13-15 Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, nr. Banbury, Oxfordshire
info@fairportconvention.com
www.fairportconvention.com
Aug 13-15 Folkworks Durham Gathering, Durham City.
0191 332 4041
info@galadurham.co.uk
http://www.galadurham.co.uk
Aug 14-6 Sep Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
01314 732099
marketing@eif.co.uk
http://www.eif.co.uk
Aug 14-16 Innerleithen Music Festival, Peeblesshire, Scottish Borders.
01721 729949
imfpublicity@aol.com
www.innerleithenmusicfestival.org
Aug 14-16 Saltburn International Festival Of Folk Music, Dance & Song, Yorkshire
01287 622623
saltburnfolkfestival@ukforum.com
www.saltburnfolkfestival.ukforum.com
Aug 14-16 Summer Sundae Weekender, Leicester.
01162 333113
festival@summersundae.com
www.summersundae.com
Aug 19-23 Marymass Folk Festival, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
01294 551047
JoyceIFC@aol.com
http://www.irvinefolkclub.co.uk
Aug 20 Dart Nationals Championship Session at 8:30pm,
Dee Sailing Club, Station Rd , Thurstaston, Wirral, Cheshire
CH61 0HN
.
01516 482300
sedgwicknigel@fsmail.net
http://www.dee-sc.co.uk
Aug 20-23 Mull Of Kintyre Music Festival, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland.
01586 552034
mokfest@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.mokfest.com
Aug 20-23 Gwyl Pontardawe Festival, Pontardawe, nr Swansea, Glamorgan. Wales
01792 830200
http://www.pontardawefestival.com
Aug 21-23 Beautiful Days, Escot Park, Honiton, Devon.
info@beautifuldays.org
www.beautifuldays.org
Aug 21-23 Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park, Brecon Beacons, Wales.
info@thegreenmanfestival.co.uk
http://www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk
Aug 21-23 Gwyl Pontardawe, nr Swansea, Glamorgan. Wales
01792 830200
info@pontardawefestival.com
www.pontardawefestival.com
Aug 21-23 Moira Furnace Folk Festival, Moira Furnace Museum, National Forest, Leicestershire
01530 270494
davidjohns851@btinternet.com
http://www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
Aug 21-23 Rhythm Festival, Clapham, Nr Bedford. Bedfordshire
02086 887833
admin@rhythmfestival.net
http://www.rhythmfestival.net
Aug 22-28 Whitby Folk Week, Yorkshire
01757 608600
enquiries@folkwhitby.co.uk
www.whitbyfolk.co.uk
Aug 23-30 Hull Jazz Festival, Yourkshire
01482 323638
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,156111&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Aug 27-31 Towersey Village Festival, nr. Thame, Oxfordshire
01629 827016
info@towerseyfestival.com
www.towerseyfestival.com
Aug 28-30 Solfest, Tarns, Nr Aspatria, Cumberland.
01900 602122
enquiries@solwayfestival.co.uk
www.solwayfestival.co.uk
Aug 28-31 Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Shropshire.
01746 768813
sandrasurtees@btopenworld.com
www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk
Aug 28-31 Southsea Folk & Roots Festival, Southsea, Hampshire.
spiderpromos@aol.com
http://www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com/festival
Aug 28-1 Sep Wit - Women’s Music Festival, Llanfair Clydogau, Ceredigion, Wales.
01570 493288
info@womenintune.co.uk
http://www.womenintune.co.uk
Aug 29-31 Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival, Colne, Lancashire.
01282 661234
info@bluesfestival.co.uk
http://www.bluesfestival.co.uk
SEPTEMBER 2009
Sep 4-6 Burnham-On-Sea Folkfest, Somerset
01278 794434
gcwebsite@aol.com
www.folkfest.co.uk
Sep 4-6 Didmarton Bluegrass Festival, Kemble Airfield, Gloucestershire
01373 813590
john@sorefingers.co.uk
www.didmarton-bluegrass.co.uk
Sep 4-6 Fylde Folk Festival, Fleetwood, Lancs.
01253 872317
alanbell@fylde-folk-fest.demon.co.uk
www.fylde-folk-festival.com
Sep 4-6 Isle Of Man Guitar Festival, Douglas & Peel, Isle of Man.
info@iomguitarfest.com
http://www.iomguitarfest.com
Sep 4-6 Moseley Village Folk Festival, nr Birmingham
07973 764023
info@moseleyfolk.co.uk
www.moseleyfolk.co.uk
Sep 4-6 Off The Tracks Late Festival, Isley Walton, nr Castle Donington, Leicestershire
01332 384518
info@offthetracks.co.uk
www.offthetracks.co.uk
Sep 4-6 Wallingford Bunkfest, Berkshire.
07743 330494
info@bunkfest.co.uk
www.bunkfest.co.uk
Sep 4-6 Wareham Wail, Verwood, Dorset.
01202 734049
http://www.wail.org.uk
Sep 4-12 Blas Festival, Highlands & Islands, Scotland.
01463 783032
management@blas-festival.com
www.blas-festival.com
Sep 5 Traditional Music Day, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
01449 771090.
info@eatmt.fsnet.co.uk
www.eatmt.org.uk
Sep 5-6 Weyfest, Rural Life Centre, Farnham, Surrey.
08700 600100
info@weyfest.co.uk
www.weyfest.co.uk
Sep 7-13 Festival On The Moor, Yorkshire
01287 660060
richard-grainger@tiscali.co.uk
http://www.festivalonthemoor.co.uk
Sep 11-13 Bromyard Folk Festival, Herefordshire.
01885 490323
info@bromyard-folk-festival.org.uk
www.bromyard-folk-festival.org.uk
Sep 11-13 End Of The Road Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset.
01342 410665
info@endoftheroadfestival.com
http://www.endoftheroadfestival.com
Sep 11-13 Hobbs Farm Music Festival, Yapton, Sussex.
01243 838008
enquiries@4sightsussex.co.uk
http://www.4sightsussex.co.uk
Sep 11-13 Liverpool Working Class Music Festival, Liverpool.
festival@workingclassmusic.org.uk
http://www.workingclassmusic.org.uk
Sep 11-13 Osmotherley Gathering, Yorkshire
01287 660200
moorfolk@googlemail.com
http://www.festivalonthemoor.co.uk
Sep 11-13 Swanage Folk Festival, Dorset.
08704 420680
swanagefolkfestival@hotmail.co.uk
www.swanagefolkfestival.co.uk
Sep 11-13 Sweet Sunny South Festival, Hastings, Sussex.
01424 423230
sweetsunnysouth69@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.sweetsunnysouth.co.uk
Sep 12-13 The Mayor’s Thames Festival, S Bank, London.
02079 288998
office@coin-street.org
www.thamesfestival.org
Sep 12-26 St Ives September Festivalof Music & The Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.
01736 366077
info@rainydaygallery.co.uk
http://www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk
Sep 13 Massed Morris Dancing In Thornham, Thornham, Norfolk.
01553 768930
paljac7@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.thekingsmorris.co.uk
Sep 17-20 Otley Black Sheep Folk Festival, Yorkshire
01943 464858
otleyff@hotmail.com
http://otleyfolkfestival.com
Sep 18-20 Cornish Bluegrass Festival, Newquay, Cornwall.
01209 719897
www.cornishbluegrass.co.uk
Sep 19-20 Womad At The Tower Festival, Tower of London.
08451 461735
info@towerfestival.com
http://www.towerfestival.com
