f8 Bude & Stratton Folk
Festival runs from 25th – 28th May with Against the Grain, Capella, Didjan, Gadarene, Georgia Lewis Trio, Hannah Cumming, Jackie Oates & Tristan Seume, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Kitty Macfarlane, Martyn Babb, Reg Meuross, Sam Kelly Trio, Steve & Carmen Hunt and more.
budefolkfest.com
Amongst the guests at
Fishguard Folk Festival (25th – 28th May) are Nancy Kerr & James Fagan and Jim Causley Check out more at fishguard-folk-
music.co.uk
Kelly Oliver – Ireby and more
Ímar, Duncan McFarlane Band, Sound Tradition, Stillhouse, Klonk, Will & Pippa Noble, Aelfen, The Bromleys, West Riding Concertina Ensemble, Flossie Malavialle, The Aldyn Duo and more.
shepleyspringfestival.com Knockengorroch World
Ceilidh in Galloway (24th – 27th May) has guests including Transglobal Underground, Les Amazones d’Afrique, Anda Union, Inyal, Balkan Paradise Orchestra, Kobi Onyame, Awry, Tankus the Henge and many more.
knockengorroch.org.uk
Orkney Folk Festival (24th – 27th May) has a line-up including Dougie MacLean, Duncan Chisholm, String Sisters, Ímar, Fara, The Chair, Jo Philby, The Once, Saltfishforty, The Wrigley Sisters, Auld Hats New Heids, TRIP, Kabantu, Gnoss, Craig Paton Dance Band, The Maes and more.
orkneyfolkfestival.com
Bearded Theory Festival takes place at Catton Hall, Derbyshire (24th – 27th May) with guests including Show Of Hands, Dubioza Kolektiv, Dub Pistols, Tide Lines, Will Varley, 3 Daft Monkeys, Robert Plant, Zion Train, Steamchicken, Holy Moly & The Crackers and more.
beardedtheory.co.uk
How The Light Gets In, Hay
(25th – 28th May) has musical guests including Spiro, The Turbans, Tankus The Henge, Blair Dunlop and Patch & The Giant.
facebook.com/HowTheLightGetsIn
Chippenham Folk Festival runs from 25th – 28th May 2018 with Edgelarks, Geoff Lakeman, Jim Mageean, Barrie & Ingrid Temple, Mick Ryan’s ‘Here at the Fair’, Narthern, Sheelanagig, Will Pound’s ‘Through the Seasons’, Bill Crawford, Bram Taylor, Brian Peters, Carolyn Robson, Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman, Georgia Lewis Trio, Granny’s Attic, Jeff Warner, Kadia, Tickled Pink, Banter and more.
chippfolk.co.uk
The inaugural Afrorepublik
Festival takes place at London’s 02 on 26th May with Wizkid, Mr. Eazi, Yxng Bane and many more.
LiveNation.co.uk
Chester Folk Festival (25th – 28th May) has a line-up including Merry Hell Acoustic, Galleon Blast, Jez Lowe, Granny’s Attic, The Will Pound Trio, Jim Moray, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Les Barker, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, GreenMatthews, Steve Tilston, Hannah James, Quicksilver, Rosie Hood, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Trials Of Cato and more.
chesterfolk.org.uk
Playing at this year’s Ireby
Festival (25th & 26th May) are Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band, Bella Hardy, Tide Lines, The Small Glories, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Flats and Sharps, Luke Jackson, Blue Rose Code, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, The Jake Leg Jug Band, Claire Hastings Band, Kelly Oliver, Edgelarks, 4Square, The Tea Cups, Jacob & Drinkwater, Oka Vanga and more.
irebyfestival.co.uk
Acoustic Festival Of Britain
(1st – 3rd June) takes place at Uttoxeter Racecourse with guests
Anda Union – Knockengorroch and touring
including Ferocious Dog and The Urban Folk Quartet.
acousticfestival.co.uk
Locating Women in ‘the Folk’: perspectives on women’s contributions to folk song, folklore, and cultural traditions: a one-day interdisciplinary conference celebrating and interrogating the role that women have played in folk song, folklore, and cultural traditions – as tradition bearers, performers, authors, collectors, storytellers and scholars – through presentations and papers across a variety of topics and from historical, contemporary, and future perspectives – takes place at University Of Sussex, Brighton on 9th June.
sussextraditions.org
St Neots Folk Festival (8th – 10th June) takes place at The Priory Centre, St Neots with Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Beau Bow Bells and Ranagri.
stneotsfolkclub.co.uk Unearthed In A Field is held in
Solva, nr Haverfordwest from 29th June – 1st July with guests including The Goat Roper Rodeo Band, Troupe Gnawa Oulad Sudan, Jim Ghedi, Toby Hay, Cynefin and more.
unearthedinafield.co.uk
Fire In The Mountain (Tan Yn
Y Mynedd), nr Aberystwyth (1st – 3rd Jun) has a line-up including Lankum, Tim Eriksen, Sam Amidon, Henge, Afriquoi, The Zong Zing All Stars, Ben Somers String Band, Martin Simpson, Silken Same, Mikey Kenny, Stray Local, Sheelanagig, Dila V & The Odd Beats, The Langan Band, Carny Villains, Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Wanton String Band, Judelman Express Way and more.
fireinthemountain.co.uk
Middlewich FAB Festival (15th – 17th June) has a line-up including Tim Eriksen.
fabfestival.co.uk
The 12th Gate To Southwell
Folk Festival, Notts (7th – 10th June) has a bill including Lindisfarne, Cara Dillon, Young’uns, Nine Below Zero, The Lil’ Jimmy Reed Band, Bob Hall, Ol’ Savannah, Johnny Dickinson, The Furrow Collective and more.
gtsf.uk
Wychwood Music Festival
(1st – 3rd June) has a line-up featuring The Gypsy Kings, The Barsteward Sons Of Val Doonican and more.
wychwoodfestival.com
Arran Folk Festival (8th – 10th June) has a line-up including The Poozies, Ella Munro Trio, Davy Lees, The Old Blind Dogs and The Jenny Sturgeon Trio.
arranevents.com
Beverley & East Riding Folk
Festival (15th – 17th June) features Gretchen Peters, Calan, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Megson, Habadekuk, Charlie Dore with Julian Littman, The Lucy Ward Band, Grace Petrie, Rosie Hood, Jess Morgan, The Boxcar Boys, Katie Spencer & Foss Paterson, The Cody Sisters, Beggar’s Bridge, Harbottle & Jonas, Alterego Ceilidh Band and more.
beverleyfestival.com
Wimborne Minster Folk
Festival runs from 8th – 10th June with Tashi Lhunpo Monks and The Outside Track.
wimbornefolk.co.uk
The 7th annual Petherton
Folk Fest is on 16th June with morris sides. the traditional Ceremony of the Glove – an ancient part of Petherton folklore – and performances from the likes of The Harry Browns, Owl In The Sun, The Dambuskers and more.
pethertonfolkfest.org.uk
Poole’s Folk On The Quay Festival (24th June) features: Marry Waterson, Delphis, Dyer Cummings, Baraka, Kadia, Alden, Patterson & Dashwood, Gilmore & Roberts, Heg & the Wolf Chorus, Carrivick Sisters, Wareham Whalers and more.
folkonthequay.co.uk
Womad have announced their first names for this year’s UK festival at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury on 26th – 29th July: Amadou & Mariam, Tal National, Sharon Shannon, Ken Boothe, Pixvae, Aeham Ahmad, Afro Cluster, Colectivo Danza Región & Cámara de Danza Comunidad, Dobet Gnahoré, Electric Fields, Ezra Collective, Federspiel, Gasper Nali, KermesZ à l’Est, Koloko, Ladama and Papaya. Lots more to come – keep an eye on
womad.co.uk
Amadou & Mariam – early Womad announcement
Photo: Hassan Hajjaj
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