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JANUARY 2010

Jan 14-31 Celtic Connections, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
01413 538000
www.celticconnections.com

Jan 15-17 Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.
01733 204348
http://www.strawbear.org.uk/

Jan 22-24 Gloucester Cajun Festival, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
01452 503050
www.gloucestercajunfestival.co.uk

Jan 23 British Slide Guitar Festival, Atherstone, Warwickshire.
01827 713156
www.atherstoneredlion.co.uk

Jan 29-31 Butlins Rock & Blues Festival, Skegness, Lincolnshire.
08701 621805
http://www.bigweekends.com/

 

FEBRUARY 2010

Feb 12-14 Cheltenham Folk Festival, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
01242 775893
joanne.heatley@cheltenham.gov.uk
www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk

Feb 12-14 Gainsborough Old Time Festival, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
07939 275853
secretary@foaotmad.org.uk
www.foaotmad.org.uk

Feb 19-22 Broadstairs Blues Bash, Broadstairs, Kent.
enquiries@openharpsurgery.com
http://www.broadstairsbluesbash.com

Feb 26-28 Alcester Folk Festival, Nr Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire.
07788 536605
information@alcesterfolkfestival.org
www.alcesterfolkfestival.org

Feb 26-28 Pipe and Tabor Weekend, Lancaster, Lancashire.
01453 763181
steve@artension.com
www.pipeandtabor.org

Feb 27 Chester February Folk Day. Hoole Community Centre, Chester, Cheshire.
07005 977045
http://www.chesterfolk.org.uk

 

MARCH 2010

Mar 3 Free Singing Workshop, Music from Around the World, Chester, Cheshire.
01244 322 439
d.mooney@chester.ac.uk
http://www.chester.ac.uk/about/diversity-and-equality/diversity-festival

Mar  5-6 Piping Hot Bagpipe Weekend, Okehampton, Devon.
01837 53754
info@wrenmusic.co.uk
www.wrenmusic.co.uk

Mar 5-7 Celtic Festival of Wales, Porthcawl, S.Wales.
01656 766667
derek@cwlwmceltaidd.com
www.cwlwmceltaidd.com

Mar 5-7 Doncaster Folk Festival, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
01302 367302
jdsbuz@aol.com
www.doncasterfolkfestival.org.uk

Mar 5-7 Intervarsity Folk Dance Festival, Durham, County Durham,
ivfdf2010@hotmail.co.uk
www.ivfdf2010.org.uk

Mar 5-7 Music Song & Dance Weekend, Salwey Arms, Wooferton, Ludlow, Shropshire
01568770821
sally.stamford@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/sallystamford

Mar 5-7 Swanage Blues Festival, Swanage, Dorset.
s.darrington@btopenworld.com
http://www.swanage-blues.org

Mar 5-21 Manchester Irish Festival, Manchester Lancashire
07702 371966
info@manchesteririshfestival.co.uk
www.manchesteririshfestival.co.uk

Mar 11-13 Harmonic Festival, Birmingham, Warwickshire
info@harmonicfestival.co.uk
http://www.harmonicfestival.co.uk/

Mar 13 Mellor Brook Fiddle Day, Mellor Brook, Lancashire
07745 493135
soundpost@fiddlemusic.co.uk
www.fiddlemusic.co.uk

Mar 19-21 Barnsley Acoustic Roots Festival, Barnsley, Yorkshire
http://www.myspace.com/barnsleyacoustic

Mar 19-21 Malton & Norton Folk Festival, Malton and Norton, Yorkshire
01653 636338
mnff@live.co.uk

Mar 20 Frittenden Festival - Sing, Dance and Play, Frittenden, Kent.
07985 522734
gmatkin@gmail.com
http://frittendenfestival.com

Mar 26-18 Apr Edinburgh's Ceilidh Culture, Edinburgh, Scotland.
01312 281155
info@ceilidhculture.co.uk  
www.ceilidhculture.co.uk

Mar 27 Melodeons & More, Mendlesham, Suffolk.
01449 771090
info@eatmt.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.eatmt.org.uk/m&m.htm

 

APRIL 2010

Apr 1-4 Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival, Fareham, Hampshire.
01329 231942
eastfest@talk21.com
www.gosportfestival.co.ukindex.html

April 1-4 Nantwich Jazz, Blues & Music Festival, Nantwich, Cheshire.
www.nantwichjazz.com
http://www.nantwichjazz.com

Apr 1-4 Oxford Jazz Festival, Oxfordshire
info@oxfordjazzfestival.com
http://www.oxfordjazzfestival.com/

Apr 2-4 Burnley National Blues Festival, Burnley Mechanics, Lancashire BB11 1BH
01282 664400
boxoffice@burnley.gov.uk
www.burnleymechanics.co.ukblues/index.php

Apr 2-5 British Jazz Foundation International Jazz Festival, Old Harlow, Essex
01279 420246
lizlincoln@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.britishjazzfoundation.co.uk

Apr 9-11 Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering, Northumberland.
01670 513308.
enquiries@northumbriana.org.uk
http://www.northumbriana.org.uk/gathering

Apr 9-14  Edinburgh Harp Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland.
01316 520585
harp.festival@hotmail.com
www.harpfestival.co.uk

Apr 16-17 Blowzabella Day, Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire.
07887 948853
info@pauljames.eu
www.blowzabella.com

Apr 16-17 The Folk Thing, Ashby Folville, Leicestershire
07970283731
http://www.folkthing.co.uk

Apr 16-18 Crediton Folk Weekend, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon.
01363 775695
creditonfolkfestival@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/crediton/cred.htm

Apr 16-18 Oxford Folk Festival, Oxfordshire.
01865 305305
info@oxfordfolkfestival.com
www.oxfordfolkfestival.com

Apr 17 Joint Morris Organisations Day of Dance, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
01473 742334
mike.r.everett@btinternet.com
www.morrisfed.org

Apr 23-25 Scandimoot, Austwick and Settle, Yorkshire
0151 644 8560
patlindop@hotmail.com
http://scandimoot.wikispaces.com

Apr 25 St George's Day, Danby, N.Yorkshire.
01287 660060
info@festivalonthemoor.co.uk
www.festivalonthemoor.co.uk

Apr 28-2 May Shetland Folk Festival, Lerwick & other venues, Shetland.
01595 694757
info@shetlandfolkfestival.com
www.shetlandfolkfestival.com

Apr 28-3 May Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Monmouthshire.
08445 768970
jemma.price@cheltenhamfestivals.com
http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/jazz

Apr 28-3 May Wath Festival, Wath Upon Dearne, Yorkshire.
07982 658467
wathfestival@btinternet.co.uk
http://www.wathfestival.org.uk/

Apr 30-1 May Bordergrass, Wembley, Herefordshire
http://www.bordergrass.co.uk

Apr 30-2 May Bollington Folk Music Weekend, Bollington, Cheshire
http://www.igasmusic.co.uk

Apr 30-2 May Girvan Traditional Folk Festival, Girvan, Ayrshire
01465 712128
http://www.girvanfolkfestival.co.uk

Apr 30-2 May Hardraw Gathering, Hardraw, Wensleydale, Yorkshire Dales.
http://www.hardrawgathering.co.uk

Apr 30-2 May Ludafest Rock N Blues, Louth, Lincolnshire.
07830 379580
ludafest@gmail.com
http://ludafest.co.uk/

April 30-3 May Eastbourne International Folk Dance Festival, Eastbourne, Sussex.
01278 424332
director@eiff.org.uk
www.eiff.org.uk

Apr 30-3 May Hastings Traditional Jack-in-the-Green, Hastings, Sussex.
01424 716516
secretary@hastingsjack.co.uk
www.hastingsjack.co.uk

Apr 30-3 May Mumbles Mostly Jazz and Blues Festival, Swansea, Glamorgan.
01792 363145
www.mumblesmostlyjazzandblues.co.uk

Apr 30-3 May Rochester Sweeps Festival, Rochester, Kent.
01634 843666
visitor.centre@medway.gov.uk
www.medway.gov.uk/sweepsfestival

Apr 30-3 May Tredegar House Folk Festival, Newport , Monmouthshire
01633 246241
http://www.tredegarhousefolk.ik.com

Apr 30-3 May Upton Folk Festival, Upton, Worcestershire.
01684 594200
boxoffice@uptonfolk.org
www.uptonfolk.org

 

MAY 2010

May 1-2 Bellingham All Acoustic Festival , Bellingham , Northumberland
01434 221235
http://www.baafest.co.uk

May 1-2 Bushy's Big Wheel Blues Festival, Laxey, Isle of Man.
01624 673898
committee@bigwheelblues.com
www.bigwheelblues.com

May 1-2 Rochester Sweeps, Festival, Kent.
01634 843666
visitor.centre@medway.gov.uk
http://www.kent.co.uk/events/rochester-sweeps-festival

May 1-3 Clun Green Man Festival, Clun, Shropshire.
01588 640305
info@clungreenman.org.uk
www.clungreenman.org.uk

May 1-23 Brighton Festival, Brighton, Sussex.
01273 700747
info@brightonfestival.org
http://www.brightonfestival.org/

May 2 Uttoxeter Mayfest, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
http://www.uttoxetermayfest.co.uk

May 6-9 Hurdy-Gurdy Festival Youlgrave, Derbyshire.
gurdyfest@yahoo.co.uk
www.hurdy.co.uk

May 7-8 Big Whistle Weekend, Bury, Lancashire.
01617 612216
post@themet.biz
http://themet.biz/

May 7-9 Holmfirth Folk Festival, Yorkshire.
01484 222444
holmfirth.tic@kirklees.gov.uk
www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk

May 7-9 Tredegar House Folk Festival, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.
01633 246241
susieoates@bushell100.fsnet.co.uk
www.tredegarhousefolk.ik.com

May 13-16 Raunds Community Music Festival , Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
http://www.raundsfestival.com

May 14-16 Clennell Hall Folk Festival, Clennell, Alwinton, Northumberland.
01669 650377
craig-clennellhall@hotmail.co.uk
www.clennellhallhotel.comid19.html

May 14-16 Bearded Theory Festival, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
02074 191221
info@beardedtheory.co.uk
http://www.beardedtheory.co.uk

May 14-17 Raunds Music Festival, Northamptonshire.
07756 015615
info@raundsfestival.com
www.raundsfestival.com

May 19-30 Perth Arts Festival, Perthshire, Scotland.
01577 862420
http://www.perthfestival.co.uk

May 21-5 Jun Salisbury International Arts Festival, Wiltshire .
01722 332 977
info@salisburyfestival.co.uk
http://www.salisburyfestival.co.uk/home.aspx

May 21-23 May Fest, Uttoxeter Racecourse, Staffordshire
www.acousticfestival.co.uk

May 21-23 Shepley Spring Festival, Yorkshire.
01484 604704
info@shepleyspringfestival.com
www.shepleyspringfestival.com

May 21-23 Wood Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.
07811 436791
drew@thisistruck.com
http://www.thisistruck.com

May 21-25 Coventry Jazz Festival, Warwickshire.
02476 294528
jazz@cvone.co.uk
http://www.coventryjazzfestival.com

May 22-23 The Yellow's on the Broom International Music & Arts Festival: Inverbervie, Angus, Scotland.
01569 750756
yellows@ifb.co.uk
www.yellowsonthebroom.ifb.co.uk

May 26-6 Jun Bath International Music Festival, Bath, Somerset.
01225 463362
info@bathfestivals.org.uk
http://www.bathmusicfest.org.uk

May 27-30 Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival, Beverley Yorkshire.
01904 632220
info@ncem.co.uk
http://www.ncem.co.uk

May 27-30 Knockengorroch World Ceilidh, Knockengorroch Farm, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
01644 460662
katch@knockengorroch.org.uk
http://www.knockengorroch.org.uk

May 27-30 Orkney Folk Festival, Stromness & other venues, Orkney.
01856 851635
info@orkneyfolkfestival.com
www.orkneyfolkfestival.com

27-30 Southport International Jazz Festival, Lancashire.
01704 533333
events@visitsouthport.com
http://www.visitsouthport.com/jazz/home

May 28-29 Ireby Festival, nr Wigton, Cumberland.
01697 371645
irebyfestival@googlemail.com
http://www.musicinireby.co.uk

May 28-30 Off The Tracks Spring Festival, Isley Walton, nr Castle Donington, Leicestershire.
07825 512168
info@offthetracks.co.uk
www.offthetracks.co.uk

May 28-30 The Trip Festival, Llanfaethlu, Anglesey
http://www.thetripfestival.co.uk

May 28-30 Whitby Spring Session, Whitby, Yorkshire.
01947 820408
moorcoast@yahoo.com
www.moorandcoast.co.uk

May 28-31 Black Horse Festival, Sedlescombe, Sussex.
enquiries@blackhorsemusicfestival.org.uk
www.blackhorsefestival.org.uk

May 28-31  Chester Folk Festival, Kelsall, nr Chester. Cheshire.
07005 977045
festival@chesterfolk.org.uk
www.chesterfolk.org.uk

May 28-31 Chippenham Folk Festival, Wiltshire.
01249 657190
info@chippfolk.co.uk
www.chippfolk.co.uk

May 28-31 Dulverton Folk Festival, Somerset.
01398 323776
sugan@supanet.com
http://www.dulvertonfolkfestival.net

May 28-31 Fishguard Folk Festival, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
www.pembrokeshire-folk-music.co.ukFestival.htm

May 28-31 Ryedale Folk Weekend, Hutton le Hole, Yorkshire.
01287 660060
moorfolk@googlemail.com
http://www.festivalonthemoor.co.uk/ryedalelweekend

May 28-31 Bude & Stratton Folk Festival, Bude, Cornwall.
01288 341582
info@budefolk.com
http://www.budefolk.com

May 28-30 Cottingham Springboard Music Festival, nr Hull, Yorkshire.
http://springboard.bravehost.com

May 28-31 Blowout Bagpipe Festival, Polesworth, nr Tamworth, Staffordshire.
ian_clabburn@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk

May 29-13 Jun Swaledale Festival, Yorkshire.
01748 880019
enquiries@swaledale-festival.org.uk
www.swaledale-festival.org.uk

May 29-30 Hartington Food and Folk Festival , Hartington, Derbyshire
http://www.foodandfolk.com

May 31-5 Jun Morland Scottish Country Dancing Week, Morland, Penrith, Cumberland.
01931 714147
davidjonesnewby@ukonline.co.uk
http://www.newbyendfarm.co.uk/activities.html

 

JUNE 2010

Jun 3-4 The Mostly Jazz Festival, Moseley Park, Birmingham.
07512 378818
info@mostlyjazz.co.uk
http://www.mostlyjazz.co.uk/home

Jun 3-6 The Sunrise Celebration, Gilcombe Farm, Somerset.
0845 009 0246
info@sunrisecelebration.com
www.sunrisecelebration.comhome.php

Jun 3-6 Wirral Folk On The Coast Festival, Bromborough, Wirral, Cheshire.
01516 789902
email info@wirralfolkonthecoast.com
www.wirralfolkonthecoast.com

Jun 4-5 Wallingford Blues & Beer Festival, Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
01491 834665
normawhelan@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.bluesandbeer.co.uk/

Jun 4-6 Coastline Bluegrass Music Event 2008. Plas Uchaf Farm, Llandudno Junction, Wales.
coastline1@hotmail.co.uk
www.coastlinebluegrass.co.uk

Jun 4-6 Suffolk Folk Festival, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
01473 742334
mike.r.everett@btinternet.com
www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SuffolkFolkFestival/

Jun 4-6  Wessex Folk Festival, Weymouth, Dorset.
www.wessexfolkfestival.co.uk

Jun 4-6 Wychwood Music Festival, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
01993 772580
info@wychwoodfestival.com
www.wychwoodfestival.com

Jun 5 Nyodema's World Music & Arts Festival , Bognor Regis , Sussex
07974 472137
http://www.nyodema.org

Jun 5-6 Kirtlington Lamb Ale Morris Festival, Oxfordshire.
07780 993396
steve_hanley@lineone.net
http://www.kirtlington-morris.org.uk/

Jun 5-13 Arran Folk Festival, Isle of Arran, Buteshire
07872 142202
http://www.arranfolkfestival.com

Jun 10-13th Gate to Southwell Folk Festival, Nottinghamshire
01636 816 678
http://www.southwellfolkfestival.org.uk

Jun 10-13 Kirkcudbright Jazz Festival, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
http://www.kirkcudbrightjazzfestival.co.uk

Jun 11-13 Abersoch Jazz Festival, Caerarfonshire, Wales.
01758 712929
enquiries@abersochtouristinfo.co.uk
http://abersoch.co.uk/jazzfestival

Jun 11-13 Gate To Southwell Folk Festival, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
01636 816678
www.southwellfolkfestival.org.uk

Jun 11-13 Gower Folk Festival, Parkmill, Gower Peninsula, Wales.
01792 850803
joy.toole@halfpennyfolkclub.com
http://www.gowerfolkfestival.co.uk/

Jun 11-13 Ipswich Riverside Folk Weekend, Ipswich, Suffolk.
01473 601902
paul@irfmf.org.uk
www.irfmf.org.uk

Jun 11-13 Raglan Folk Festival, Monmouthshire, Wales.
http://www.raglan-festival.org/

Jun 11-13 St Neots Folk Festival, Cambridgeshire.
01234 376278
stneotsfolkclub@aol.com
www.stneotsfolkclub.co.uk

Jun 11-13 Wimborne Folk Festival, Wimborne Minster, Dorset.
01202 623740
linda.wild@wimbornefolkfestival.co.uk
www.wimbornefolkfestival.co.uk

Jun 11-26 Grassington Festival Of Music & Arts, Grassington, nr Skipton, Yorkshire.
01756 752691
boxoffice@grassington-festival.org.uk
http://www.grassington-festival.org.uk/

Jun 11-26 Spitalfields Festival, Tower Hamlets, London.
02073 770287
info@spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk
www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk

Jun 17-20 Blues On The Farm, Chichester, Sussex
http://www.bluesonthefarm.co.uk

Jun 18-20 Africa Oye, Sefton Park, Liverpool. Lancashire
www.africaoye.com

Jun 18-20 Alcester Folk Festival, Alcester, Warwickshire
http://www.alcesterfolkfestival.org/summerfest.htm

Jun 18-20 Beverley & East Riding Folk Festival, Beverley, Yorkshire.
01377 217569
info@beverleyfestival.com
www.beverleyfestival.com

Jun 18-20 Big Session Festival, De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
01162 333111
www.bigsessionfestival.com

Jun 18-20 English Country Music Weekend, Ampthill, Bedfordshire.
01462 456974
taztarry@btinternet.com
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/ecmw.htm

Jun 18-20 Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival, Cheshire.
www.midfest.org.ukmfab/

Jun 18-20 Sonic Rock Solstice, Penmaenau Farm, Builth Wells, Wales
01982-553307
http://www.sonicrocksolstice.com

Jun 18-20 Teignmouth Folk Festival , Teignmouth, Devon
01803 290427
http://www.teignmouthfolk.co.uk

Jun 18-20 Towerfest Country Music Festival, Drax, nr Selby, Yorkshire.
01405 761805
http://www.towerfest.co.uk/

Jun 19-20 Leamington Peace Festival, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
08453 884207
info@peacefestival.org.uk
www.peacefestival.org.uk

Jun 23-27 Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset.
01458 834596
office@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/

Jun 23-27 Leigh Folk Festival, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
http://www.virtualfestivals.com/Leigh-Folk-Festival-2010

Jun 24-27 Lichfield Real Ale, Jazz & Blues Festival, Staffordshire.
01543 262223
info@lichfieldarts.org.uk
www.lichfieldarts.org.uk

Jun 24-2 Jul Lymm Fesival, Lymm, Cheshire
07919 270916
http://www.lymmfolkclub.org.uk

Jun 25-26 Togfest All Music Festival, Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes. Buckinghamshire.
01908 311557
info@togfest.org
http://www.togfest.org/pages/home/index.php

Jun 25-27 Belper Music Festival, Belper, Derbyshire.
07983 250980
http://www.belpermusicfestival.org.uk

Jun 25-27 Crawley Folk Festival, Crawley, Sussex.
01293 553636
www.myspace.com/crawleyfolkfestival

Jun 25-27 Dentdale Music Festival, Yorkshire.
01539 625022
matthew@lowhaycotebarn.com
http://www.dentmusicandbeer.com

Jun 25-27 Droylsden Folk Weekend, Manchester
http://www.droylsdenfolkfestival.org

Jun 25-27 Folk At The Festival, St Albans, Herts.
www.stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk

Jun 25-27 Sedbergh Folk Festival, Yorkshire.
01524 582803
info@sedberghfolkfest.co.uk
http://www.sedberghfolkfest.co.uk/

Jun 26 Midsummer Jazz, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight.
01983 882204
liz.tagart@iwsteamrailway.co.uk
http://www.midsummerjazz.net/

Jun 26-28 Alcester Folk Festival, Alcester, Warwickshire.
07788 536605
http://www.alcesterfolkfestival.org/

Jun 30-14 Jul Chester Summer Music Festival, Cheshire
01244 320722
kate@chestersummermusicfestival.co.uk
http://www.chesterfestivals.co.uk/site/music-festival

 

JULY 2010

Jul 1-4 North Wales Bluegrass Music Festival, Conwy, Wales.
01492 580454
northwalesbluegrass@hotmail.com
www.northwalesbluegrass.co.uk

Jul 2-4 Well Dressed Festival, Ashover, Nr Chesterfield, Derbyshire
http://www.ashoverwelldressedfestival.co.uk

Jul 2-4 Beatherder Festival, Ribble Valley, Lancashire
01535 673399
contact@beatherder.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/beatherderfestival

Jul 2-4 Beyond The Border, St Donats, Glamorgan, Wales.
01446 799100
enquiries@stdonats.com
http://www.beyondtheborder.com

Jul 2-4 Cleckheaton Folk Festival, Yorkshire
01274 879761
info@cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org

Jul 2-4 Dove Holes International Beer & Jazz Festival, Derbyshire
01298 814722
http://dovejazzclub.co.uk/default.aspx

Jul 2-4 Maverick Festival, Woodbridge , Suffolk
http://www.maverickfestival.co.uk

Jul 2-4 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 2-4 Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
ntmfsecretary@googlemail.com
http://www.newcastleton.com/index.html

Jul 2-4 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 2-4 Two Rivers Folk Festival, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
07870 611979
info@tworiversfolkfestival.com
www.tworiversfolkfestival.com

Jul 2-4 Well Dressed Festival, Ashover, Nr Chesterfield, Derbyshire
http://www.ashoverwelldressedfestival.co.uk

Jul 3-4 Cornbury Music Festival, Cornbury Park, Oxford.
02072 292219
mail@cornburyfestival.com
www.cornburyfestival.com

Jul 3-18 Brass: Durham International Festival, Co Durham.
01913 708820
james.lowther@durham.gov.uk
http://www.brassfestival.co.uk

Jul 5-11 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, N. Wales.
01978 862000
info@international-eisteddfod.co.uk
http://www.llangollen2010.co.uk

Jul 7-11 Henley Festival Of Music & Arts, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
01491 843400
info@henley-festival.co.uk
www.henley-festival.co.uk

Jul 8-11 Americana International, Newark, Nottingham
01159 390595
silvereagleuk@ntlworld.com
http://www.americana-international.co.uk

Jul 8-11 Stonehaven Folk Festival, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
01569 766211
sff_tickets@yahoo.co.uk
www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk

Jul 8-15 International Pipe & Tabor Festival, Gloucester. Gloucestershire
01453 763181
steve@artension.com
www.pipeandtabor.orgfestival.html

Jul 8-18 Lichfield Festival, Staffsordshire
01543 306270
info@lichfieldfestival.org
www.lichfieldfestival.org

Jul 9-10 Beggars Fair, Romsey, Hampshire
01794 518960
beggarsfair2009@yahoo.co.uk
www.beggars-fair.org.uk/site

Jul 9-10 Moonbeams Wold Top Folk Festival, Wold Top Brewery, Hunmanby, Wold Newton, Yorkshire
07949 974573
www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk

Jul 9-11 Bromsgrove Folk Festival, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
01527 831577
bromsgroveman@hotmail.com
http://www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk/festival2010.html

Jul 9-11 Ely Folk Festival, Cambridgeshire
07500 527334
info@elyfolk.co.uk
www.elyfolk.co.uk

Jul 9-11 Folkstation, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight.
01983 882269
folkstationonline@googlemail.com
http://www.folkstation.co.uk

Jul 9-11 Furness Tradition Festival, Ulverston, Cumberland.
01229 582704
http://www.furnesstradition.org.uk

Jul 9-11 Fuse: Event In A Tent, Lichfield, Staffordshire
01543 262223
info@lichfieldarts.org.uk
www.lichfieldarts.org.ukfestivals.asp

Jul 9-11 Priddy Folk Festival, Priddy, nr Wells, Somerset.
priddyinfo@priddyfolk.org
www.priddyfolk.org

Jul 9-11 Small Nations Forever, Llandovery, Wales.
01550 720552
info@smallnations.co.uk
http://www.smallnations.co.uk

Jul 9-11 West Somerset Folk Festival , Carhampton, Somerset
enquiries@westsomersetfolkfestival.co.uk
http://www.westsomersetfolkfestival.co.uk

Jul 9-17 Somerton Morris Fringe , Somerton, Somerset
01458 274148
http://www.somerton.co.uk/ssf

Jul 9-17 York Early Music Festival, York, Yorkshire
01904 658338
info@ncem.co.uk
http://www.ncem.co.uk

Jul 9-18 Frome Festival, Frome, Somerset.
01373 453889
office@fromefestival.co.uk
http://www.fromefestival.co.uk

Jul 10-18 Yn Chruinnaght Inter-Celtic Festival, Ramsey and Peel, Isle of Man.
http://www.ynchruinnaght.com

Jul 14-17 Hebridean Celtic Festival, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis.
01851 621234
info@hebceltfest.com
www.hebceltfest.com

Jul 14-18 Larmer Tree Festival, Tollard Royal, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
01725 552300
info@larmertreefestival.co.uk
www.larmertreefestival.co.uk

Jul 16-17 Chagstock Festival , Chagford, Devon
organiser@chagstock.info
http://www.chagstock.info

Jul 16-17 Mansfield Folk Festival , Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
http://mansfieldfolkfest.org.uk

Jul 16-18 Clogfest, Skipton, Yorkshire
01282 868040
paul@clogfest.org
www.clogfest.org

Jul 16-18 Guilfest, Guildford, Surrey.
01483 454159
info@guilfest.co.uk
www.guilfest.co.uk

Jul 16-18 Rothbury Traditional Music Festival, Northumberland.
01669 621000
enquiries@rothbury-traditional-music.co.uk
http://www.rothbury-traditional-music.co.uk

Jul 16-18 2000 Trees, Upcote Farm, nr Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
info@twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk
http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk

Jul 16-18  Brampton Live, Brampton, Cumberland.
01237 451933
enquiries@bramptonlive.net
www.bramptonlive.net

Jul 16-18 Festival At The Edge, Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
01939 236626
info@festivalattheedge.org
www.festivalattheedge.org

Jul 16-18 Saddleworth Folk Festival, Uppermill, Nr Oldham, Lancashire
info@safra.org.uk
www.safra.org.uk

Jul 16-18 Spratton Folk Festival, Northamptonshire
07811 682135
sprattonfestival@googlemail.com
www.sprattonfestival.com

Jul 16-18 Stainsby Festival, nr Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
01246 559036
news@stainsbyfestival.org.uk
http://www.stainsbyfestival.org.uk

Jul 16-25 Birmingham International Jazz Festival, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
01214 547020
admin@bigbearmusic.com
http://www.birminghamjazzfestival.com

Jul 22-25 Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, Wiltshire
www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk

Jul 23-25 Big Tent Festival , Falkland, Fife
http://www.bigtentfestival.co.uk

Jul 23-25 Maryport Bitter & Blues Festival, Cumberland
01900 817200
info@maryportblues.com
www.maryportblues.com

Jul 23-25 Rolling Hills Festival, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
http://www.rollinghillsfolkclub.org.uk

Jul 23-25 Seafest International Maritime Festival, Scarborough, Yorkshire
01287 660060
http://www.yorkshiremoorsandcoast.com/events/thedms.aspx?dms=13&venue=1715461&feature=1001

Jul 23-25  Warwick Folk Festival. Warwick, Warwickshire
01926 614932
info@warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk

Jul 23-25 Womad Festival, CharltonPark, Malmesbury, Wiltshire
http://womad.org?festival_id=46

Jul 23- 31 Manchester Jazz Festival. Lancashire
01612 280663
http://www.manchesterjazz.com

Jul 24-25 Rhythms Of The World, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
01462 454649
info@rotw.org.uk
http://www.rotw.org.uk

Jul 25 Folk By The Oak, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
01432 355416
info@folkbytheoak.com
http://www.folkbytheoak.com

Jul 29-1 Aug  Cambridge Folk Festival. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk

Jul 30-1 Aug Lomond Folk Festival, Balloch, Loch Lomond, Scotland.
07785 345457
info@lomondfolkfestival.com
www.lomondfolkfestival.com

Jul 30-1 Aug  Guildtown Bluegrass Music Festival, nr Perth, Scotland.
01968 670038
secretary@scottishbluegrass.com
www.scottishbluegrass.com

Jul 30-6 Aug  Sidmouth Folk Week, E Devon.
01395 578627
info@sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk

  Jul 31 Field Day 2009, Victoria Park, London E9.
08444 771000
http://www.fielddayfestivals.com

Jul 31-1 Eastbourne Lammas Festival, Sussex.
01323 737809
www.lammasfest.org

 

AUGUST 2010

Aug 1-6 Blues Week, University of Northampton.
01242 701765
info@euroblues.org
http://www.euroblues.co.uk

Aug  3-7 African Drum Village, Glen Isla Village, Angus, Scotland.
07971 535099
www.africandrumvillage.comindex.htm

Aug  5-8 Stokes Bay & Wickham Festival, Wickham, Hampshire
www.stokesbayfestival.co.uk

Aug 6-8 Brecon Jazz Festival , Brecon, Breconshire
08709 901299
jazz@hayfestival.com
http://www.breconjazz.org

Aug 6-9 Burton Agnes Jazz & Blues Festival, Burton Agnes, Yorkshire
01262 490324
www.burtonagnes.com

Aug 6-9 Cambridge Rock Festival, Cambridgeshire
01353 749749
info@cambridgerockfestival.co.uk
http://cambridgerockfestival.co.uk

Aug 6-7 Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Beauly, Invernessshire, Scotland.
01463 741336
www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk

Aug 5-8 The Big Chill Festival, Malvern Hills, Herefordshire.
info@bigchill.net
www.bigchill.net/

Aug 6-8 Dartmoor Folk Festival, South Zeal, Okehampton, Devon.
01837 840102
enquiries@dartmoorfolkfestival.co.uk
www.dartmoorfolkfestival.co.uk

Aug 6-8 Kelsall Jazz Festival, Morris Dancer, Kelsall, Cheshire
01829 751291
http://www.btinternet.com/~jazzworld/kelsall.htm

Aug 6-13 Broadstairs Folk Week, Kent.
01843 604080
www.broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk

Aug 7-14 Morland Folk Dance Week, nr Penrith, Cumberland
01931 714338
davidjonesnewby@ukonline.co.uk
www.newbyendfarm.co.uk

Aug 8-13 Klezfest London, Soas, University of London.
020 8909 2445
http://www.jmi.org.uk/

Aug 12-14 Fairport's Cropredy Convention, nr. Banbury, Oxfordshire
info@fairportconvention.com
www.fairportconvention.com

Aug 13-5 Sep Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
01314 732099
marketing@eif.co.uk
http://www.eif.co.uk

Aug 13-15 Saltburn International Festival Of Folk Music, Dance & Song, Yorkshire
01287 622623
saltburnfolkfestival@ukforum.com
www.saltburnfolkfestival.ukforum.com

Aug 13-15 Summer Sundae Weekender, Leicester.
01162 333113
festival@summersundae.com
www.summersundae.com

Aug 13-16 WIT - Women's Music Festival, Llanfair Clydogau, Ceredigion, Wales.
01570 493288
info@womenintune.co.uk
http://www.womenintune.co.uk

Aug 13-22 Gwyl Pontardawe Festival, Pontardawe, nr Swansea, Glamorgan. Wales
01792 830200
http://www.pontardawefestival.com

Aug 18-22 Marymass Folk Festival, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
01294 551047
Info@irvinefolkclub.co.uk
http://www.irvinefolkclub.co.uk

Aug 19-22 Mull Of Kintyre Music Festival, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland.
01586 552034
mokfest@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.mokfest.com

Aug 20-22 Innerleithen Music Festival, Peeblesshire, Scottish Borders.
01721 729949
imfpublicity@aol.com
www.innerleithenmusicfestival.org

Aug 20-22 Beautiful Days, Escot Park, Honiton, Devon.
info@beautifuldays.org
www.beautifuldays.org

Aug 20-22 Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park, Brecon Beacons, Wales.
info@thegreenmanfestival.co.uk
http://www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk

Aug 20-22 Moira Furnace Folk Festival, Moira, Swadlicote , Leicestershire
01530 270494
http://www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk

Aug 20-22 Rhythm Festival, Clapham, Nr Bedford. Bedfordshire
admin@rhythmfestival.net
http://www.rhythmfestival.net

Aug 21 Acoustic Roots at Linton , Linton near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
http://www.acousticrootslinton.co.uk

Aug 21-27 Whitby Folk Week, Whitby, Yorkshire
01274 833669
folk@whitbyfolk.co.uk
www.whitbyfolk.co.uk

Aug 26-30 Southsea Folk & Roots Festival, Southsea, Hampshire.
spiderpromos@aol.com
http://www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com/festival

Aug 26-30  Towersey Village Festival, nr. Thame, Oxfordshire
01629 827016
info@towerseyfestival.com
www.towerseyfestival.com

Aug 27-29 Limetree Festival, Grewelthorpe near Ripon, Yorkshire.
01937 557812
http://limetreefestival.co.uk

Aug 27-29  Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Shropshire.
01746 768813
sandrasurtees@btopenworld.com
www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk

Aug 27-29 Solfest, Tarns, Nr Aspatria, Cumberland.
01900 602122
enquiries@solwayfestival.co.uk
www.solwayfestival.co.uk

Aug 27-30 Wadebridge Folk Festival , Wadebridge, Cornwall
http://www.wadebridgefolk.co.uk

 

SEPTEMBER 2010

Sep 2-5 Burnham-On-Sea Folkfest, Somerset
01278 794414
www.folkfest.co.uk

Sep 2-5 Didmarton Bluegrass Festival, Kemble Airfield, Gloucestershire
john.wirtz@hipposound.co.uk
www.didmarton-bluegrass.co.uk

Sep 3-5 Fylde Folk Festival, Fleetwood, Lancs.
alanbell@fylde-folk-fest.demon.co.uk
www.fylde-folk-festival.com

Sep 3-5 Moseley Village Folk Festival, nr Birmingham
07789 440026
info@moseleyfolk.co.uk
www.moseleyfolk.co.uk

Sep 3-5 Off The Tracks Late Festival, Isley Walton, nr Castle Donington, Leicestershire
07825 512168
info@offthetracks.co.uk
www.offthetracks.co.uk

Sep 3-5 Wallingford Bunkfest, Berkshire.
07743 330494
info@bunkfest.co.uk
www.bunkfest.co.uk

Sep 3-5 Wareham Wail, Verwood, Dorset.
01202 734049
http://www.wail.org.uk

Sep 3-5 Weyfest, Rural Life Centre, Farnham, Surrey.
info@weyfest.co.uk
www.weyfest.co.uk

Sep 3-6 Isle Of Man Guitar Festival, Douglas & Peel, Isle of Man
info@iomguitarfest.com
http://www.iomguitarfest.com

Sep 3-11 Blas Festival, Highlands & Islands, Scotland
management@blas-festival.com
www.blas-festival.com

Sep 4 Traditional Music Day, Stowmarket, Suffolk
01449 771090
info@eatmt.fsnet.co.uk
www.eatmt.org.uk

Sep 10-11 Harvest Festival at Jimmy's, Ipswich, Suffolk
08709 901299
info@harvestatjimmys.com
http://www.harvestatjimmys.com

Sep 10-12 Bromyard Folk Festival, Herefordshire
07772 831860
info@bromyard-folk-festival.org.uk
www.bromyard-folk-festival.org.uk

Sep 10-12 End Of The Road Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset
info@endoftheroadfestival.com
http://www.endoftheroadfestival.com

Sep 10-12 Ivylive, Fiham Park, Ivybridge, Devon
Info@ivylive.co.uk
http://www.ivylive.co.uk/

Sep 10-12 Swanage Folk Festival, Dorset
08704 420680
swanagefolkfestival@hotmail.co.uk
www.swanagefolkfestival.co.uk

Sep 10-12 Sweet Sunny South Festival, Hastings, Sussex
sweetsunnysouth69@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.sweetsunnysouth.co.uk

Sep 11-19 Cornish Bluegrass Festival, Newquay, Cornwall.
01209 710060
carolynandnigel@hotmail.co.uk
www.cornishbluegrass.co.uk

Sep 11-25 St IvesSeptember Festival, St Ives, Cornwall.
http://www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk

Sep 17-19 Alchemy Festival, Conningsby, Lincolnshire
http://www.alchemyfestival.co.uk

Sep 17-19 Mendip Autumn Folk Festival, Pelting Drove, Priddy, Somerset
http://www.mendipfolkfestival.org.uk

Sep 17-19 Tarbert Music Festival, Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland.
01880-820479
tarbert.festival@dsl.pipex.com
www.tarbertmusicfestival.com

Sep 24-26 Thimbleberry Music Festival, Thimbleby Hill Farm, Stanhope, Co. Durham.
http://www.thimbleberry.co.uk/

Sep 24-26 Helmsley Folk Weekend, Helmsley Arts Centre, Yorkshire.
01439 771700
helmsleyartscentreboxoffice@yahoo.co.uk
www.helmsleyarts.co.uk

Sep 24-26 Thimbleberry Music Festival, Thimbleby Hill Farm, Stanhope, Co. Durham.
01388 527573
andy@thimbleberry.co.uk
http://www.weird.uk.com

Sep 30-3 Oct Tenterden Folk Festival, nr Ashford, Kent.
01233 626805
info@tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk
http://www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk

 

OCTOBER 2010

Oct 1-3 Fest 'n' Furious, Dundee, Angus, Scotland.
http://www.festnfurious.co.uk

Oct 1-3 Ingleton Folk Weekend, Ingleton, Yorkshire.
015242 41049
ingletonfolk@gmail.com
www.ingletonfolk.co.uk

Oct 8-10 Banbury Canalside Folk Festival, Oxfordshire.
01295 709881
www.banburyfolkfestival.co.uk

Oct 13-17 Lowender Peran Celtic Festival, Perranporth, Cornwall.
01872 553413
peggy@lowenderperan.co.uk
www.lowenderperan.co.uk

Oct 15-17 Bollington Folk Music Weekend , Bollington, Cheshire
http://www.igasmusic.co.uk

Oct 15-17  Bristol Cajun & Zydeco Festival. Folk House, Bristol, Gloucestershire.
01227 274340
www.bristolcajunfestival.com

Oct 16-30  Canterbury Festival, Kent.
01227 762952
info@canterburyfestival.co.uk
www.canterburyfestival.co.uk

Oct 22-24 Baring-Gould Folk Festival, Okehampton, Devon.
01837 53754
info@wrenmusic.co.uk
http://www.baring-gould.co.uk

Oct 22-24 Musicport, Bridlington, Yorkshire.
0855 3732760
info@whitbymusicport.com
http://www.musicportfestival.com

Oct 29-31 Darlington Folk Music Weekend, Co Durham.
info@darlingtonfolkmusicweekend.org.uk
http://www.darlingtonfolkmusicweekend.org.uk

Oct 29-7 Nov Perthshire Amber Festival, Pitlochry & various towns, Perthshire.
01350 724281
admin@butterstone.com
http://www.perthshireamber.com/

 

NOVEMBER 2010

Nov 3-7 London International Festival Of Exploratory Music, London.
Tel: 07775 907996
info@redorange.org.uk

Nov 5-7 Denholm Folk Festival, Denholm, Nr Hawick, Scottish Borders, 01450 377165
info@denholmfolkfest.co.uk
http://www.scotborders-folk.org.uk/index_dff.htm

Nov 12-21 London Jazz Festival, London
http://www.londonjazzfestival.org.uk

Nov 19-21 Folk Industry & The Association of Festival Organisers Conference,
Eastwood, Nottingham
info@folkarts-england.org
http://www.folkarts-england.org

 

DECEMBER 2010