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18-20 Cornish Bluegrass Festival, Newquay, Cornwall. Nigel & Carolyn Harris. 01209 710060.
carolynandnigel@hotmail.co.uk www.cornishbluegrass.co.uk
18-20 Otley Black Sheep Folk Festival, W Yorks. 01943 464858.
otleyff@hotmail.com www.otleyfolkfestival.com
18-20 Priston Festival, nr Bath, Som. Manor Cottage, Priston, Bath, BA2 9EH. 01761 472908.
pristonfestival@googlemail.com www.priston.org.uk/festival
18-20 Ramsbottom Festival, Bury, Greater Manchester. The Met, Market Street, Bury, B19 0BW. 0161 761 7107. info@rams-
bottomfestival.com www.ramsbottomfestival.com
18-20 Stroud Folk Festival, Glos. Box Office: 01453 760900. via website
www.stroudfolkfestival.co.uk
18-20 The Folk Gathering, Alstonefield, Staffs. Malcolm Hawksworth, 1 North Street, Leek, Staffs, ST13 8DW. 01538 388418 / 07805 529492. Box Office: 01538 360256.
thefolkgathering@gmail.com www.thefolkgathering.org
18-20 The Good Life Experience, Hawarden Estate, Flintshire. 01244 784122.
info@thegoodlifeexperience.co.uk www.thegoodlifeexperience.co.uk
19 Stourbridge Folk Festival, Red House Cone, Stourbridge, W Midlands. Paul Smith.
pas70@me.com stourbridgefolkfestival.co.uk
25-27 Dunbar Traditional Music Festival, Scotland. via website
www.dunbarmusicfestival.co.uk
25-27 Southdowns Folk Festival, Bognor Regis, Sussex. Roger Nash, 12 Green- wood Avenue, Bognor Regis, PO22 9EN. 01243 820187 / 07751 594285. Box Office: 01243 861010.
rnash10@hotmail.com www.southdownsfolkfest.co.uk
OCTOBER
1-4 Cork Folk Festival, Cork City, Ireland. William Hammond, Arts @ Civic Trust House, 50 Popes Quay, Cork, Ireland. +353 21 4317271.
infocorkfolk@gmail.com www.corkfolkfestival.com www.tickets.ie
1-4 Tenterden Folk Festival, Kent. Alan Castle. 01233 626805.
info@tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk
2-4 Derby Folk Festival, Derby. Box Office, Derby LIVE, Assembly Rooms, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AH. Box Office: 01332 255800.
admin@derbyfolkfestival.co.uk www.derbyfolkfestival.co.uk
2-4 IOM GuitarFest, Douglas, Isle of Man. Jonno Gollow, 3 Malvern Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 5AS. 01624 610410. Box Office: 01624 600555. gigs@jonnopromo-
tions.com www.jonnopromotions.com
2-4 Llyn Acoustic Guitar Festival, Llanbedrog, N Wales. Plas Glyn-Y- Weddw, Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, Wales. 01758 740763. via website
www.llynacoustic.co.uk
7-11 Harp On Wight, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Vic King, 9 Whitwell Farm, High Street, Whitwell, Isle of Wight, PO38 2PY. 01983 730930.
harponwight@gmail.com www.harponwight.com
9-11 Banbury Folk Festival, Oxon. Derek & Mary Droscher. 01295 709881.
www.banburyfolkfestival.co.uk
9-11 Harwich International Sea Shanty Fes- tival, Essex. Pam Fitzgerald, 41 Hadleigh Road, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, CO13 9HQ. 07921 640772 / 07894 055151. info@har-
wichshantyfestival.co.uk h
arwichshantyfestival.co.uk
9-11 Lewes Folk Festival, E Sussex. Vic Smith, 26 Ferrers Road, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1PZ. 01273 478124.
tinvic@globalnet.co.uk www.lewesfolkfest.org
14-18 Lowender Peran, Newquay, Cornwall. Peggy Morris, Park Hoskyn House, Penhal- low, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 9NB. 01872 553413.
peggy@lowenderperan.co.uk www.lowenderperan.co.uk
15-18 English Folk Expo, Bury, Lancs. The Met, Market Street, Bury, Lancs, BL9 0BW. 01795 533511 / 07932 720058.
terry@englishfolkexpo.com www.englishfolkexpo.com
15-18 Fira Mediterrania, Manresa, Catalo- nia, Spain. C/ de l’Arquitecte Oms, 5 – 08242 Manresa, Spain. +34 938 753 588.
info@firamediterrania.cat www.firamediterrania.cat
15-18 Homegrown Festival, Bury, Lancs. The Met, Market Street, Bury, Lancs, BL9 0BW. 0161 761 7107. Box Office: 0161 761 2216. via website
homegrownfolk.co.uk
16-18 Bristol Cajun & Zydeco Festival. c/o 5 Hawkwood Close, Rochester, Kent, ME1 1HW. 01634 932157. via website
www.bristolcajunfestival.com
16-18 Musicport, Whitby, N Yorkshire. 16 Skinner St, Whitby, N Yorks, YO21 3AJ. 01947 603475.
info@musicportfestival.com www.musicportfestival.com
17-31 Canterbury Festival, Kent. Festival Office, 8 Orange Street, Canterbury, CT1 2JA. 01227 452853. Box Office: 01227 787787.
info@canterburyfestival.co.uk www.canterburyfestival.co.uk
20-26 Return To Camden Town, London. Lon- don Irish Centre, 50-52 Camden Square, London NW1 9XB. 07871 088121.
info@returntocamden.org www.returntocamden.org
21-25 WOMEX, Budapest, Hungary. piranha womex AG, Bergmannstr. 102, 10961 Berlin, Germany. +49 30 318 614 30.
womex@womex.com www.womex.com/
23-25 Baring-Gould Folk Festival, Okehamp- ton, Devon. Marilyn Tucker, Wren Music, Ebenezer Hall, North Street, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 1AR. 01837 53754.
marilyn@wrenmusic.co.uk www.baring-gould.co.uk
23-25 Nonsuch Annual Dulcimer Workshop Weekend, Great Malvern, Worcs.. c/o Osbaldeston House Farm, Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-dale, Preston, PR5 4HS. 01772 314008.
nonsuch@dulcimer.org.uk www.dulcimer.org.uk
23-25 Soundpost Full English Weekend, Dungworth and Bradfield, Sheffield, Yorks. Kate Thompson. kate@sound-
post.org.uk www.soundpost.org.uk/ full-english-weekend
24 North Dorset Folk Festival, Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
upturnedpebble@yahoo.com www.northdorsetfolkfestival.co.uk
26-29 Dulcimer World Congress, Great Malvern, Worcs. c/o Osbaldeston House Farm, Higher Walton Road, Walton-le- dale, Preston, PR5 4HS. 01527 64229. dul-
cimer.world.congress@
gmail.com www.dulcimerworldcongress.co.uk
27-1 Nov Oslo World Music Festival, Nor- way. Sagveien 23 C, 0459 Oslo, Norway.
booking@osloworld.no www.osloworldmusicfestival.no
30-8 Nov Perthshire Amber, venues throughout Perthshire, Scotland. Jen- nifer MacLean, Old School House, Butter- stone, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. 01350 724261.
admin@butterstone.com www.perthshireamber.com
31 Old Time Country Festival, Winkel near Bülach, Switzerland. Beat Heri, Alte Badenerstrasse 9, CH-8173 Neerach, Switzerland. +41 44 854 05 53.
bheri@bluewin.ch www.rockingchair.ch
NOVEMBER
2-6 November Mini Fest, Halsway Manor, nr Crowcombe, Somerset. 01984 618274.
office@halswaymanor.org.uk www.halswaymanor.org.uk
3-8 Etnosoi!, Helsinki, Finland. Jaana-Maria Jukkara, Global Music Centre, Hämeentie 34 D, 00530 Helsinki, Finland. +358 96 96 27 90.
etnosoi@globalmusic.fi www.etnosoi.fi
4-8 London International Arts Festival, London. Jyotsna Srikanth, 591 Ley Street, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7RD. 07951 337986.
info@liaf.co.uk www.liaf.co.uk
5-8 LIFEM: London International Festival Of Exploratory Music, London. Miguel Santos.
info@lifem.org.uk www.lifem.org.uk
6-9 Folk Dance and Music Weekend, Hal- sway Manor, nr Crowcombe, Somer- set. 01984 618274. office@halsway-
manor.org.uk www.halswaymanor.org.uk
13-15 Tenby Blues And Roots Festival, S Wales. 07074 102121.
info@tenbyblues.co.uk www.tenbyblues.co.uk
16-24 Dec (tbc) Africolor, Paris, France. Philippe Conrath, 5 rue Arthur Groussier, 75010 Paris, France. +33 1 47 97 69 99.
concerts@africolor.com www.africolor.com
20-22 Fiddle 2015: Scots Fiddle Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland. Beth Sederstrom, 9 Ferry Road, Edinburgh, EH9 4AD.
info@scotsfiddlefestival.com www.scotsfiddlefestival.com
DECEMBER
4-6 Give Voice! Weekend, Halsway Manor, nr Crowcombe, Somerset. 01984 618274.
office@halswaymanor.org.uk www.halswaymanor.org.uk
4-7 Great British Folk Festival, Butlins, Skegness, Lincs. 0845 0704757. Box Office: 0845 0704734.
butlins.holidays@
bourne-leisure.co.uk www.bigweekends.com/the-weekends/ specialist-music-weekends/
great-british-folk-festival.aspx
4-7 (tbc) Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes. Association Trans Musicales, 10/12 rue Jean Guy, CS 73912 35039, Rennes Cedex, France. +33 2 99 31 12 10. Box Office: +33 2 99 31 11 88.
info@lestrans.com lestrans.com/en/
5 Haddenham Festival, Bucks. John Hey- don, John’s House, 5 Church Street, Ayles- bury, Bucks, HP20 2QP. 07717 047039.
john@actionfolk.co.uk www.haddenhamceilidhs.co.uk
10-13 25th International Folk Music Festival “Mikolajki Folkowe’, Lublin, Poland. Agnieszka Matecka, ACK UMCS Chatka Zaka, ul. Radziszewskiego 16, 20-031 Lublin, Poland. +48 81 533 32 01 ext. 114.
mikolaje@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl www.mikolajki.folk.pl
23-27 Halsway Manor Christmas House Party 2015, nr Crowcombe, Somerset.
office@halswaymanor.org.uk www.halswaymanor.org.uk
29 Halsway Manor New Year’s House Party 2015/2016, nr Crowcombe, Som- erset.
office@halswaymanor.org.uk www.halswaymanor.org.uk
2016 JANUARY
14-31 Celtic Connections, Glasgow, Scot- land. Box Office, The Glasgow Royal Con- cert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY, Scotland. 0141 353 8000. via website
www.celticconnections.com
15-17 Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival, Whit- tlesey, Cambs. Paul Cornell, 119 Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1AJ.
info@strawbear.org.uk www.strawbear.org.uk
19-21 Alcester Winter Festival, Alcester, Warwickshire. Marje Stanley, 89 Salford Close, Redditch, B98 7UL. 077885 36605.
contacts@alcesterfolkfestival.org.uk www.alcesterfolkfestival.org.uk
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