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Belshazzar’s Feast, Jackie Oates, Session A9, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle, Rua Macmillan Trio, Manran, Merry Hell, The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, The Jason Wilson Band featuring Dick Gaughan & Dave Swarbrick, Calan, Old Man Luedecke and more.www.wickhamfestival.co.uk

Ballyshannon Folk Festival

in Ireland runs from 2nd – 5th August with Paul Brady, Cara Dillon, Alan Kelly Gang, Eddi Reader, Fidil, The Lost Brothers, Faduda, Aoife Scott Band and many more. www.ballyshannonfolkfestival.com

Cornwall Folk Festival (3rd – 5th August) sees one of Nic Jones rare summer appearances with Joseph Jones & Belinda O’Hooley, Linde Nijland & Bert Ridderbos, Tim Edey, Robb Johnson, Ruth Notman & Saul Rose, Lucy Ward, Tinderbox, Wendy Arrowsmith, Amadou Diagne, The Gumbo Flyers, Corncrow, Flats & Sharps, Black Velvet and more. 01208 812230; www.cornwallfolkfestival.co.uk

Esperanzah! is held in Abbaye De Floreffe, Belgium from 3rd – 5th August 2012 with guests Emel Mathouthi, Balkan Beat Box, Caravan Palace, Staff Benda Bilili, Bongo, La Chiva Gantiva, Roberto Fonseca and many more. www.esperanzah.be

Amongst the guests at

Dranouter Festival in Heuvelland, Belgium (3rd – 5th August) are The Imagined Village, Goran Bregovic & The Wedding & Funeral Band, Seasick Steve, Bellowhead, The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain, Balkan Beat Box, Levellers, Tinariwen, The Waterboys, The Crooked Fiddle Band, Taraf Dékalé and more. www.festivaldranouter.be

The Lorient Interceltic

Festival, France celebrates The Year of Acadia from 3rd – 12th August with Fayo, Lisa Leblanc, Dominique Dupuis, Pascal Lejeune, Louise Vautour, Marie-Jo Thério, Joseph Edgar, Mama Rosin, Christine Salem, Mor Kreizdouar, Buffy Sainte- Marie, Moriarty, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® featuring Omara Portuondo, Afro Celt Sound System, Dominique Dupuis, Xosé Manuel Budiño, Bagad Lann-

Bihoué, Frankie Gavin & De Dannan, Michael McGoldrick, John Mccusker & John Doyle, Treacherous Orchestra, and more. www.festival- interceltique.com

Folkworks Summer Schools 2012 take place in Durham between 6th – 11th August with tutors including Brian Finnegan, Karine Polwart, Sophy Ball, Alistair Anderson, Tom Kitching, Catriona MacDonald, Hannah James and Dave Wood. Three schools run in different venues (The Youth Summer School is for people aged 14-25 and runs all week; Junior Summer School is for 9-13 years and runs Wednesday – Saturday; Adult Summer School runs all week for anyone over the age of 18). Residential and non-residential places are available, and accommodation can be arranged for other family members. The teaching takes place at University colleges. thesagegateshead.org/ about-us/folkworks/

The 25th Feakle Traditional

Music Festival in Ireland runs from the 8th to the 13th August with many guests including Tommy Fleming, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Brian Donnellan, Cyril O’Donoghue, Mark Donnellan, Thrillogy, Triur (Peadar O’Riada, Martin Hayes & Caoimhin O´Rathalaigh), Seamus Bugler, Kate McNamara, Four Courts Ceili Band, Voice Squad featuring Phil Callery, Fran McPhail & Gerry Cullen, Ciorras, The Tulla Céilí Band and more. www.feaklefestival.ie

Fairport Convention’s

Cropredy Festival (9th – 11th August) nr Banbury, Oxon features appearances from Richard Thompson, Sawdoctors, Bellowhead, Kieran Goss, Joan Armatrading, Larkin Poe, Tarras, Dead Flamingoes, Ellen & The Escapades, Ioscaid, Calan, Morris On, Richard Digance and more www.fairportconvention.com

Edmonton Folk Music

Festival runs from 9th – 12th August in Gallagher Park with Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Emmanuel Jal, Kiran Ahluwalia, Amadou & Mariam, Rory Block, La Bottine Souriante, Calypso Rose, The

Fairport reconvene for their annual Cropredy

Johnny Clegg Band, George Kahumoku Jr., Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three, Dougie MacLean, Oliver Mtukudzi & The Black Spirits, Mairtín O’Connor Band, Martin Simpson, Emily Smith, Mavis Staples, Sidi Toure and more. www.edmontonfolkfest.org

Dhruv Arts Presents London International Arts Festival (10th – 12th August) at Ilford Town Hall, High Road, Essex with guests Dr M. Balamuralikrishna, EYOT, Rashid Ali, Bruno Batra, Jyotsna Srikanth and DJ Ritu. www.liaf.co.uk

Dartmoor Folk Festival runs

from 10th – 12th August in South Zeal, Okehampton, Devon with guests including Spiers & Boden, The Young ‘Uns, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Moore Moss Rutter, All Blacked Up, The Bonfire Fand, The Kelly Quarry Blasters, Chucklefoot, Entertainingly Different Rob Pudner & Dexter Newman, Dave Wills and Tony Beard. www.dartmoorfolkfestival.co.uk

Saltburn Folk Festival runs

from 10th – 12th August with guests including Vin Garbutt, The Tom McConville Band, Bob Fox & Billy Mitchell, Colum Sands, Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley, Lady Maisery, Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, Bernard Wrigley and many more. cuttywrenfolkclub.talktalk.net/

Wilderness (10th – 12th August) comes to Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire with Rodrigo y Gabriela, Fatoumata Diawara, Wilco, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, London Folk Guild collective with 3 Cane Whale, Bella Hardy, City Shanty Band, Cut-A-Shine, Duotone, Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell, Larkin Poe, Monster Ceilidh Band, RM Hubbert, Sam Lee & Friends, The Toy Hearts, This Is The Kit, Ahab and more. www.wildernessfestival.com

Broadstairs Folk Week (10th –17th August) has a line-up featuring Eddi Reader, Oysterband, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, No Masters, Benjamin Zephaniah, Chris Wood, Tim Edey, Breabach, Feast Of Fiddles, Magpie Lane, Megson, Tarras, Sheelanagig, Lucy Ward, Monster Ceilidh Band, Kathryn Roberts & Sean

Fatoumata Diawara: Wilderness

Lakeman, Wizz Jones, Seamus Begley and more.

broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk The 3rd Bath Folk Festival

(13th – 19th August) includes a five day Irish music summer school as well as workshops in other music and dance traditions. Confirmed guests include: Spiers & Boden, Brendan Power & Tim Edey, Dave Swarbrick, Karen Tweed with Chris O’Malley and Des Hurley, Alan Burke, Inu, Bob & Gill Berry, Reg Meuross, Claire Mann & Aaron Jones, Joe Tilston, Beth Porter & The Availables and many more. www.bathfolkfestival.org

Amongst the guests at Masters

Of Tradition (15th – 19th August) Bantry Co. Cork are Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Len Graham, Toner Quinn, Maire Ní Chéileachair, Carmen Ibáñez Berbel, John Flanagan, Michael Rooney, June McCormack, Liam O’Flynn, Kevin Crawford, John Doyle, Séamus Connolly, Tulla Céilí Band and more. www.westcorkmusic.ie/ mastersoftradition

Amongst the artists on the

bill at Mull Of Kintyre Music Festival (16th – 19th August) are The Saw Doctors, Tannahill Weavers, Fergie MacDonald Band, The Moonshiners and more. www.mokfest.com

Innerleithen Music Festival runs from 17th – 19th August in Peeblesshire, Scotland with guests ranging from Battlefield Band, The Wrigley Sisters, Dougie Maclean and Manran to Barbara Dymock Band, Lucy Pringle & Chris Wright and more. Tel: 01721 725777; www.innerleithenmusicfestival.org

Taking place on the weekend

of 17th – 19th August, the one-off Strummer Of Love Festival will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of iconic Clash frontman Joe Strummer at a beautiful location in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. Amongst those headlining are The Pogues, Seasick Steve, Billy Bragg, KT Tunstall, Alabama 3, Don Letts, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Badly Drawn Boy, Frank Turner, Twinkle Brothers, Roots Manuva, Katie Rose’s Sound Baths and many more. Strummer School will provide a chance to study the man’s unseen lyrics,

Photo: Judith Burrows

Photo: Judith Burrows

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