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This Is The Kit, Lau, Tankus The Henge, Blue Rose Code, Adam Holmes & The Embers, The Dhol Foundation, 3 Daft Monkeys, Rory McLeod, Holy Moly & The Crackers, Solana and more.
Playing at Arran Folk Festival on 7th – 9th June are Jenn Butterworth & Laura-Beth Salter, Maeve Mackinnon Trio, Bobby Watt, Daimh, The Ledger and more.
St Neots Folk Festival (7th –
9th June) has Martin Simpson, Trials Of Cato, Les Barker, Glymjack and more.
EXIB Música takes place in Owl Light Trio – Oxford and Sidmouth
Macfarlane, The Trials Of Cato, The Time Bandits, Ben Robertson and more.
Chippenham Folk Festival returns on 24th – 27th May with acts including Bob Fox, Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman, Granny’s Attic, Jim Causley, John Kirkpatrick, Melrose Quartet, Tom & Barbara Brown, Winter Wilson, Bill Crawford, Bob Walton, Greg Russell, Jack Rutter, John Spiers, Moira Craig and more.
Swaledale Festival is on 25th May – 8th June and features Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Kabantu, The Hut People, Dan Walsh Trio and more.
International Africa Festival,
held in Würzberg, Germany on 30th May – 2nd June features Mangrove Steel Band, Wally Warning Roots Band, Moonlight Benjamin, Calypso Rose, Anna & Saliou Cissokho, Kokoroko, Moh! Kouyaté, Femi Kuti, Thabilé, Mokoomba, Touré Kunda and more.
Wirral Folk Festival in
Ellesmere Port (30th May – 2nd June) has guests including Chris While & Julie Matthews, Jacqui McDonald, The Wilsons, Tom McConville Band, Elbow Jane, The Drystones, Jim Moray, Sam Kelly Trio and more.
Wimborne Minster Folk
Festival is taking place on 6th – 9th June and has a line-up including The Askew Sisters, Sam Carter, Thom Ashworth, Kim Lowings & The Greenwood, Shackleton
Trio, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Jacob & Drinkwater, Tom Moore & Archie Churchill-Moss, Roswell, Heg & The Wolf Chorus, Will Finn & Rosie Calvert, Alden Patterson & Dashwood, Hannah Scott and more.
Wessex Folk Festival in
Weymouth (31st May – 2nd June) hosts Vicky Swan & Jonny Dyer, Gadarene, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Ant Noel & The Peabody Drakes, Mitchell & Vincent, Annie Dressner, Oka Vanga and more.
The Acoustic Festival Of Great
Britain takes place in Uttoxeter on 31st May – 2nd June and has a line-up including 3 Daft Monkeys, Gaz Brookfield, Gordon Haskell, Chris Difford and more.
Forgotten Lands Festival,
Cumbria takes place on 7th – 8th June with Michael Chapman, Jim Causley, Rory McLeod, Chris & Siobhan Nelson and more.
Gate To Southwell Festival runs from 6th – 9th June with Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Los Pacaminos with Paul Young, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Skipinnish, Nancy Kerr, Blue Rose Code, Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Grace Petrie, The Tweed Project, Ranagri, Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente, Blackbeard’s Tea Party, Bird In The Belly, Alden Patterson & Dashwood and more.
Eden Festival in Raehills (6th – 9th June) has a line-up including
Grace Petrie – Southwell & Shrewsbury
Setúbal, Portugal for its 5th year on 13th – 15th June, celebrating the music of Ibero-America, with Anna Ferrer, Cuarteto Kare and more.
Gower Folk Festival runs from 14th – 16th June and has music from Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Cup o’ Joe, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Vera Van Heeringen Trio, Hannah James & Toby Kuhn, Midnight Skyracer, Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Jack Rutter, Molly Evans, Edgelarks, The Mischa MacPherson Band, ALAW and more.
The Fastnet Maritime & Folk
Festival in Balleydehob, West Cork (14th – 17th June) features Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick, Matt Cranitch & Jackie Daly and more.
The inaugural Tangled Roots
Festival takes place on 15th June at Radford Mill, Somerset with music from India Electric Co, Kirsty Merryn, Moonlit Poachers, Flamenco Loco, Petites Annonces and more.
Artists performing at
Teignmouth Folk Festival (21st – 23rd June) include Geoff Lakeman, Jim Causley, Marilyn Tucker & Paul Wilson and more.
Tandem Music Festival in
Oxford (22nd – 24th June) has guests including The Bookshop Band, Owl Light Trio, Ethno England, Kalatva Collective, Bamako Overground, Merlyn Driver, DJ Folkatron, Balladeste, Cameron J Niven, Sophie Janna, Dowally, Jack & The Arrows and more.
Black Deer Festival at Eridge
Park in Kent runs from 21st – 23rd June with Band Of Horses, John
Butler Trio, The Staves, Kris Kristofferson & The Strangers, The Mavericks, Neko Case, Larkin Poe, Justin Townes Earle, Ferris & Sylvester, Roxanne de Bastion, The Trials of Cato, John Smith, Worry Dolls, Jerron Blind Boy Paxton, Fantastic Negrito, Hayseed Dixie, Neko Case, The Dead South, Ryan Bingham, Watermelon Slim and more.
At Grassington Folk Festival
in the Yorkshire Dales from 21st – 29th June, are Cara Dillon, The Young’uns and more.
To celebrate Alan Bell’s 85th
birthday, the Fylde Folk Festival is back for a one-day revival event in Fleetwood on 22nd June. Artists will include Show Of Hands, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, The Wilsons, Marie Little, Gary & Vera Aspey, Stanley Accrington, Alan Bell Band, Scolds Bridle, Niamh Boadle and Thistle.
Exile Music Festival is on 28th – 30th June and has sets from Granny’s Attic, Joshua Burnell Band, Carousel and more
St Albans Folk Festival takes place on 28th – 30th June with dance, sessions and singarounds and music from Flook and more.
Normafest celebrates the 80th
birthday of Norma Waterson at Whitby Pavilion on 28th – 30th June. The Waterson-Carthy family invite close friends, family and musical colleagues to make an appearance including Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band, The Gift Band, The Watersons, Kathryn Williams & Michele Stodart, Robyn Hitchcock, Linda Thompson, Marry Waterson & Emily Barker, Thomas McCarthy, Bollywood Brass Band, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Ian A Anderson, Ian Clayton and more.
In Poole, Folk On The Quay takes place on 29th June and includes 3 Daft Monkeys, Gren Bartley Trio, Trials Of Cato, Bird In The Belly, Chris Fox and more.
Looking ahead at some of the bigger ones: first names have been announced for this year’s Womad at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 25th – 28th July, including Salif Keita, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Ziggy Marley,
Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson – Normafest celebrates Norma’s 80th
Photo: Elly Lucas
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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