9 f Purbeck Folk Festival runs
from 21st – 24th Aug with Eddi Reader, Chris Wood, The Furrow Collective, Martha Tilston and the Scientists, Roving Crows, Peter Knight's Gigspanner, Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo, Flats & Sharps, CoCo & the Butterfields, Gren Bartley Band and more.
www.purbeckfolk.co.uk
Shambala Festival (21st – 24th Aug) has a line-up featuring Femi Kuti, Lisa Knapp, Emily Portman Trio, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Cumbia Allstars, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, The Folk Ensemble and many more.
www.shambalafestival.org
Shrewsbury Festival (22nd – 25th Aug) has a line-up including Bellowhead, Seth Lakeman, Lau, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, The Dhol Foundation, Steve Knightley’s Wake the Union, The Full English, The Chair, Four Men and a Dog, Martin Simpson, Karine Polwart, Steve Tilston Trio, Bella Hardy, Jim Moray, Moulettes, Duncan McFarlane Band, Huw Williams & Maartin Allcock, Megson, Andy Cutting, Rex Preston & Miranda Sykes, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Matt Gordon & Leonard Podolak, Cara Luft, The Wilsons, The Young‘uns, Sunjay Brayne, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Steve Turner, Cupola, Blackbeard’s Tea Party and more. Festival Patron John Jones from Oysterband will be walking from Presteigne to the festival, arriving to launch the festivities with the Reluctant Ramblers on the 22nd and to MC the evening's main stage performances. (You can join John on these walks:
jj-rr.org )
www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk
The Cornwall Folk Festival is between 22nd – 25th Aug 2014. Wizz Jones, Flossie Malavialle, Jez Lowe, Geoff Lakeman, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Mike Silver, Geoff Lakeman, The Roving Crows, Andy Clarke & Steve Tyler, Steve Hunt & Neil Davey and many more.
www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
Halsway Manor Folk Summer
School (26th – 29th) near Crowcombe, Somerset runs a second year of its folk music, dance and song summer school - for all ages and abilities - led by a
Cumbia All-Stars: Shambala
crack team of tutors including Kevin Dempsey, Kerry Fletcher, Jo Freya, Stewart Hardy and Carolyn Robson.
www.halswaymanor.org.uk
Playing at Burnham-on-Sea’s
Folkfest (28th – 31st Aug) are Urban Folk Quartet, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Three Sheets T’wind, Romany Diamonds and Rusty Shackle.
www.folkfest.co.uk
Tønder Festival in Denmark
(28th – 31st Aug) sees guest appearances from The
Chieftains, Steve Earle, Runrig, Oysterband, Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, Seth Lakeman, Richard Wood, Le Vent du Nord, Skerryvore, We Banjo 3, Julie Fowlis, Habadekuk, Big Basco, John McCusker, John Doyle & Michael McGoldrick, Foghorn Stringband, Cajun Country Revival, Dirk Powell & Cedric Watson Band, Harald Haugaard Band feat. Helene Blum, The Outside Track, Sheesham & Lotus & Son and more.
www.tf.dk
New Forest Folk Festival runs
from 28th – 31st Aug with Steeleye Span, Zulu Tradition, Feast of Fiddles, Vin Garbutt, Richard Digance, Jez Lowe’s Bad Pennies, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Lucy Ward, The Young‘uns and more.
www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
On the bill at Didmarton Bluegrass Festival (28th – 31st Aug) are A&E Oldtime String Band, Acoustic Bridge, Allen Family Band, Applejacks Appalachian Dancers, Bill Smarme & the Bizness, Cara Luft, Flats & Sharps, Jason Titley Collective, The Slowdown Boys and Stompin’ Dave Allen and more.
www.didmarton-bluegrass.co.uk
Nordsjøfestivalen in Farsund,
Norway runs from 28th – 31st Aug with The Furrow Collective, Kong Nor, Erlend Viken Trio and more.
nordsjofestivalen.no
Away With The Birds is a project that explores the mimesis of birds in Gaelic song created by an inter-disciplinary team of visual artists, musicians, textile artists, dancers, writers, sound recordists, ornithologists, conservationists, and anthropologists. At the heart of the work is Hanna Tuulikki’s Guth an Eòin/Voice Of The
Bird, written for a female vocal ensemble, re-weaving fragments of Gaelic song into a soundscape that grows out of and responds to the landscape. In August, as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme, the project is taken to the Isle of Canna, in the Hebrides, for two outdoor performances that will take place in the harbour on 29th & 30th August. Then, in September, the performance will migrate to Glasgow's Tramway for two indoor shows.
www.awaywiththebirds.co.uk
On the bill at this year’s
Moseley Folk Festival (29th – 31st Aug) are Richard Thompson, The Waterboys, Lau, Thurston Moore, John Smith, The Rails, The Old Dance School, Lisa Knapp, Georgia Ruth, Martha Tilston, Cut A Shine, The Gren Bartley Band, The Lords Of Thyme, Olion Byw and more.
www.moseleyfolk.co.uk
Alan Bell’s directorial
farewell at Fylde Folk Festival (29th – 31st Aug) features Shooglenifty, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Roy Bailey, Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston, Urban Folk Quartet, Isla St. Clair, Lady Maisery, Allan Yn Y Fan, The Young’uns, Steve Tilston, Gren Bartley Band, Barluath, Shane Hennessy, Gary & Vera Aspey, Alan Bell Band, Hughie Jones, Steve Turner, Stanley Accrington, Goat Roper Band, Derek Gifford, Steve Turner, Hard Times, Niamh Boadle, Peter & Barbara Snape and more. Alan says "It has been a fantastic time being in the revival of interest in folk music from the early days and founding and watching the festival grow from just one concert to the present day. However, I think it is time for younger organisers to move the festival on to meet the exciting developments in our world." fRoots wishes him all the very best.
www.fylde-folk-festival.com
Wallingford Bunkfest (29th – 31st Aug) has a line-up including Baka Beyond, The Hut People, Merry Hell, Martyn Joseph, 3 Daft Monkeys, Tarras, Jackie Oates, Allan Yn Y Fan and more.
www.bunkfest.co.uk
Coming up at the End Of The
Road Festival (29th – 31st Aug) are Tinariwen, Richard Thompson, Johnny Flynn & The Sussex
Wit, Juana Molina, John Smith, 9Bach, The Rails, Lonnie Holley, Lau, Sam Lee and more.
www.endoftheroadfestival.com
Lyme Regis Folk Weekend
(29th – 31st Aug) plays host to Martin Simpson, Lisa Knapp, Jim Causley & Lukas Drinkwater, Ducie, Demon Barbers XL and more.
www.lymefolk.com
Treacherous Orchestra, Mishaped Pears, Tashi Lhunpo Monks, Travelling Band are on the bill at Off The Tracks Summer Festival, in Isley Walton, nr Castle Donnington (29th – 31st Aug).
www.offthetracks.co.uk
Traditional Music Day takes place on 30th August at the Museum Of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket. On the bill, Jackie Daly, Joe Aitken & Geordie Murison, Pete Coe & Alice Jones, English String Band, Liz Giddings & Roger Digby.
eatmt.org.uk/tmd.htm
Blas Festival, the Pan-
Highlands event from 4th – 15th Sept at a range of venues includies: Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, Mischa MacPherson Trio, Cherish The Ladies, Dougie Maclean and more.
www.blas-festival.com
Summer Isles Festival takes
place in Achiltibuie on 30th Aug with Treacherous Orchestra, Rura, Rachel Newton and the annual ceilidh dance set led by the festival's very own Mairearad Green.
www.summerislesfestival.com
Stourbridge Folk Festival runs from 5th – 7th Sept at The Redhouse Cone, High Street, Wordsley with The Strawbs, Scott Matthews, Roberts & Lakeman, Lucy Ward, Sunjay Brayne, Luke Concannon, The New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils and more.
www.stourbridgefolkfestival.co.uk
Appearing at this year’s
Baafest in Bellingham (11th – 14th Sept) are: The Mighty Doonans, Brooks Williams, 4Square, Haddo, Clive Gregson, The Durbervilles, Union Jill Band and Landermason.
www.baafest.co.uk
Bromyard Folk Festival
(12th – 14th Sept) features Oysterband, We Banjo 3, Vin Garbutt, The Old Dance School, Whapweasel, Blackbeard’s Tea
Lau: Towersey, Moseley, Shrewsbury, End Of The Road
Photo: Judith Burrows
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