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host to OBT, Sheelanagig, Findlay Napier, Kinnaris Quintet and more.
This year’s Tredegar House
Folk Festival celebrates its 30th year on 10th – 12th May with a line-up including Alaw, Bob Fox, Calan, Jez Lowe, Belshazzar’s Feast, Brooks Williams, The Hut People, Will Pound & Eddy Jay and more.
Focus Wales, Wrexham, takes place on 16th – 18th May with acts including 9Bach, Gwenifer Raymond, Martyn Joseph, Toby Hay and many more.
Trinity Folk Festival (17th – 18th May) is held in Guildford and features Luke Jackson Trio, Kitty Macfarlane, Downtown Roundabout, The Tweed Project, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Frank Burkitt Band, Tobias Ben Jacob & Lukas Drinkwater, Chris Cleverley & Kathy Pilkington, Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente, Phantom Voices and Jaywalkers.
Doncaster Folk Festival takes place on 17th – 19th May with a line-up of Melrose Quartet, Blackbeard’s Tea Party, The Mile Roses, Dave Burland & The Awkward Squad, The Davenport Family, Clarty Sough, Millbrook & Lomas, Steel Songbirds and Alan Wood.
Shepley Spring Festival (17th – 19th May) moves to an indoor venue at Storthes Hall Park, and has a new patron for 2019 in the form of Jack Rutter who will perform at the festival alongside Edward II, Andy Cutting, The Rowan Tree, Topette!, Narthen, She Shanties, Belshazzar’s Feast, Moore Moss Rutter, The Trials Of Cato, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Kitty Macfarlane, Will Noble, The Rheingans Sisters, Lady Maisery, Molly Evans and more. The festival will also be screening the film All My Life’s Buried Here, the story of George Butterworth.
In Hanover, Germany is
Masala World-Beat Festival (17th – 26th May) with such artists as Mélissa Laveaux, Moonlight Benjamin, Manou Gallo, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Fanfaraï Big Band, AYOM, The Turbans and more.
Future Juke, a festival of 21st- century blues, takes place in London venues from 17th May – 19th June with artists such as
Lady Maisery – at Bristol Folk Festival, and Shepley & Sidmouth too
After a three year hiatus, Bristol Folk Festival returns on 3rd – 5th May to various city venues and sees performances from Cara Dillon, Kris Drever, Lady Maisery, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Grace Petrie, Cohen Braithwaite- Kilcoyne, The Drystones, Spiro, Ian A Anderson, Rachael Dadd, The Longest Johns, Bristol Folk Singers, Amadou Diagne, Kim Lowings, Nick Hart, Hannah James and Mike Dennis.
Jimmie Vaughan, Cedric Burnside, Ian Siegal and Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton.
Knockengorroch World Ceilidh
in Dumfries & Galloway (23rd – 26th May) has acts including Omar Souleyman, Elephant Sessions, Moonlight Benjamin, Talisk, Gwyneth Glyn, Josie Duncan, Bragod and more.
Bearded Theory Festival
returns to South Derbyshire on 23rd – 26th May with Idlewild, Seth Lakeman, Wildwood Kin, Beans On Toast and more.
Orkney Folk Festival is on 23rd – 26th May with guests including Cara Dillon, The Chair, Còig, Dermot Byrne, Eamonn Coyne & John Doyle, Four Men & A Dog, Heisk, Kinnaris
Among Knockengorroch artists – Talisk and Moonlight Benjamin
“Some of the UK’s best folk musicians will appear at the newly resurrected Bristol Folk Festival this May Day Bank Holiday weekend,” says co-director Ant Miles. “The festival will feature performances from award-winning folk musicians Cara Dillon and Kris Drever (Lau) as well as a host of rising stars of the UK folk scene. The main concerts will take place around Park Street, with performances on Friday and Saturday at Bristol Folk House and Saint Stephen’s Church, and on the Sunday at St George’s.”
Quintet, Lau, Malinky, The Poozies, The Revellers, Ryan Young & Jenn Butterworth, Saltfishforty, Son Yambu, The Wrigley Sisters and more.
Playing at this year’s Kerrville
Folk Festival (23rd May – June 9th), Texas are Richard Thompson, Sam Bush, Rodney Crowell, Pokey LaFarge, Patty Larkin, Shinyribs, Ruthie Foster, Nobody’s Girl and more.
Ireby Festival returns on the 24th and 25th May with a line-up including Seth Lakeman, Coco & The Butterfields, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Imar, Calan, Midnight Skyracer, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band, Will Pound & Eddy Jay, Smith &
McClennan, The Shackleton Trio, Emily Mae Winters, Elaine Davidson, Ninebarrow, Luke Daniels, Molly Evans and more.
This year’s Bude & Stratton
Folk Festival (24th – 27th May) has guests including Geoff Lakeman, Granny’s Attic, Si Barron, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner, Georgia Lewis, Mick Ryan, Harbottle & Jonas, Davey & Hunt and more.
Chester Folk Festival is on 24th – 27th May with a programme featuring Blackbeard’s Tea Party, The Askew Sisters, Belshazzar’s Feast, Steve Turner, Pilgrim’s Way, Dipper Malkin, Andy Cutting, Ninebarrow, Alden Patterson & Dashwood, Kitty
Kinnaris Quintet – Shetland, Moniave, Orkney
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Photo: Mike Guest
Photo: Elaine Livingstone
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