7 f The 27th Tredegar House
Folk Festival (6th – 8th May) in Newport has guests including Calan, Will Pound & Eddy Jay, Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, Flats & Sharps, Lowri Evans, Winter Wilson, Alingås Folkdansgille, Veselka and more.
tredegarhousefestival.org.uk
Brighton Festival runs from
7th – 29th May. Tel: 01273 709709;
www.brightonfestival.org
FOCUS Wales, the annual multi-venue festival taking place in Wrexham each spring, places a music industry spotlight on emerging Welsh talent from 12th – 14th May 2016.
www.focuswales.com
Imagined Isle is a brand new
festival at Town Hall Symphony Hall, Birmingham from 12th – 16th May with a line-up including Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Kate Rusby, Eric Bibb, False Lights, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, Luke Jackson, Emily Portman & The Coracle Band, The Furrow Collective, Rachel Newton, Alasdair Roberts, Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake, Boat To Row and Katherine Priddy.
thsh.co.uk/imagined-isle-2016/
Oban Live is a new open air concert taking place in Mossfield Park, Oban, on 13th and 14th May with KT Tunstall, Capercaillie, Julie Fowlis, Skipinnish, Wolfstone and more.
www.obanlive.com
Hardraw Folk Gathering at The Green Dragon runs from 13th – 15th May including Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley, The Duncan McFarlane Band, Granny’s Attic, Sound Tradition, Edwina Hayes, Jimmy & Sid and Kwame D.
pennineskyfolkandroots.co.uk
Hebden Bridge Folk Roots
Festival takes place from 13th – 15th May with Kathryn Williams & Michele Stodart, Hayes Sisters, Amy Wadge & Pete Riley, Steve Tilston, Jez Lowe, Plumhall, John Palmer Acoustic Band, Rory McLeod & The Familiar Strangers and many more.
www.hebdenfolkroots.org
Dart Music Festival,
Dartmouth runs from 13th – 15th May with a variety of genres covered, and roots acts including Martin & Eliza Carthy, Ninebarrow, The Porter Family,
RANT – Shepley, Hexham
Zen Hussies, Harbottle & Jonas, Billy Thompson Gypsy Style, The Bookshop Band, Phil King Duo and more.
www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk
The Fife Traditional Singing
Festival, Falkland runs from 13th – 15th with Jim & Kate Taylor, Pete Coe, Chris Hendry, Cathal McConnell, Alex Clarke, Jimmy Hutchison, Chris Miles and Pete Shepheard.
www.springthyme.co.uk/fifesing
Norfolk & Norwich Festival
(13th – 29th May) features Billy Bragg, La Chiva Gantiva, Moh! Kouyaté, Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones, Laura Cannell, Ethan Johns and more. Tel: 01603 766400;
www.nnfestival.org.uk
Music Meeting Nijmegen,
Netherlands runs from 14th – 16th May with Djelimady Tounkara & Kandia Kouyaté, Konono No.1 meets Batida, Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band, Manolito Y Su Trabuco, Savina Yannatou & Primavera En Salonico, Flats & Sharps and more.
www.musicmeeting.nl
The Great Escape, the festival for new music, returns to Brighton from 19th – 21st May with guests including Songhoy Blues, Fatoumata Diawara and Yorkston Thorne Khan.
www.greatescapefestival.com
Wood Festival, Braziers Park,
near Wallingford runs from 20th – 22nd May with a line-up including Sam Lee, Danny & The Champions of the World, Owiny Sigoma, Jali Fily Cissokho’s Coute Diomboulou and more.
www.woodfestival.com
Folkworks Hexham
Gathering (20th – 22nd May) has a line-up featuring RANT, Alistair Anderson’s Hidden Hexham, Talisk, Rachel Hamer Band, Joel Savoy, Jesse Lége and the Cajun Country Revival, The Northumbrian Ranters, Chris Meredith & Watchtone, King Cole and more. Tel: 01434 652477;
www.queenshall.co.uk
Shepley Spring Festival, nr
Huddersfield runs from 20th – 22nd May with appearances from Anxo Lorenzo Trio, RURA, Belshazzar’s Feast, The Young’uns, Nancy Kerr & The Sweet Visitor Band, RANT. Melrose Quartet, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Kimber’s Men, Talisk, Mawkin, The Barber
La Chiva Gantiva – Norwich
Sisters, Tom McConville Band, Roy Bailey, Elephant Sessions, KLONK!, Allan Yn Y Fan, Dave Burland, Ange Hardy, Will & Pippa Noble, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Bryony Griffith, Cupola:Ward, Duncan McFarlane Band, Bo Weavil, Claire Hastings, Aelfen and more.
shepleyspringfestival.com
Bath International Music
Festival runs from 20th – 29th May with its mix of concerts and a wide range of free events, starting with Party in the City on the opening night. Concerts include Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Teddy Thompson with Kelly Jones as well as a number of New Meetings concerts with Ranjana Ghatak and Liran Donin, Alasdair Roberts and Andy Cutting and Twelfth Day and Maya Youssef
www.bathfestivals.org.uk/music
Bury St Edmunds Festival,
Suffolk (20th – 29th May) features two Milkmaid Folk Showcases as well as Belshazzar’s Feast, Tango al Toque, Earl Okin, Benjamin Folke Thomas and more. Tel: 01284 758000;
www.buryfestival.co.uk
Masala World-Beat Festival,
Hanover, Germany (20th – 29th May) has guest appearances from Pat Thomas, Tony Allen, Blick Bassy, Gisela Joao, Helsinki- Cotonou Ensemble, Chico Trujillo and more.
www.masala-festival.de
Alchemy: London Southbank
Centre’s Celebration Of South Asian Culture runs from 20th –
Lynched – Orkney
30th May with guests including: Asian Dub Foundation, Laal, Zakir Hussain & BBC Concert Orchestra, Shankar Ehsaan Loy and more. Tel: 0844 875 0073;
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Cappadox Festival runs from 19th – 22nd May in the villages of Uchisar and Goreme in the stunning semi-arid landscape of Cappadocia, in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Music comes from Dhaffar Youssef, Erik Truffaz Quartet, Taksim Trio, Kaki King, Ceylan Ertem, Cenk Erdogan, Laraaji, Mercan Dede and many more.
www.cappadox.com
Druga Godba, Ljubljana,
Slovenia (26th – 28th May) has a line-up including Nneka, Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band, Orkesta Mendoza, uKanDanZ, Dom La Nena and more.
www.drugagodba.si
The 34th Orkney Folk
Festival runs from 26th – 29th May with Julie Fowlis, The Unthanks, Frigg, RURA, Session A9, Lynched, Liz Carroll, Vishten, Rob Heron & The Teapad Orchestra, Geoff Lakeman, Maggie Adamson & Brian Nicholson, Ivan Drever, Saltfishforty, The Wrigley Sisters, The Chair, The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band and more.
orkneyfolkfestival.com
Knockengorroch World
Ceilidh (26th – 29th May) in Dumfries and Galloway has guests including Black Uhuru, Family Atlantica, Skerryvore, Mungos Hi Fi Soundsystem, London
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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