by kirsty | Nov 4, 2019 | Festivals, News
Plans for the 2020 Folk Festival on 3rd, 4th & 5th July are well under way and this year we are aiming to be bigger and better than ever. We are aiming to provide a weekend of free family orientated entertainment for local people of all ages, with an opportunity...
by kirsty | Jun 3, 2019 | Books, Music, News
Karine Polwart Julie Fowlis Seckou Keita Kris Drever
Kerry Andrew Rachel Newton Beth Porter Jim Molyneux In 2018 Folk by the Oak Festival were overjoyed to commission Spell Songs, a musical companion piece to The Lost Words by author Robert Macfarlane and...
by kirsty | Apr 25, 2019 | Festivals, News
Hatfield House | Hertfordshire | Sunday 14 July A festival of folk’s finest acts gathered in beautiful leafy parkland
for one uplifting summer day of music. The Main Stage: Headliner – Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls One of the UK’s most successful solo artists...
by kirsty | Apr 24, 2019 | Festivals, News
These are the celebratory numbers for this year’s folk festival in Chippenham. We’ll start with the big number, 48. This is the number of years that there has been a folk festival associated with Chippenham. Starting way back in 1972 in Lacock it has grown to a huge...
by kirsty | Apr 5, 2019 | Featured Festivals, Festivals, News
Cleckheaton Folk Festival presses on to it’s 32nd festival on 5th, 6th & 7th July 2019. The event seems to go from strength to strength with loyal funding support from local councillors at Kirklees MDC, Kirklees Creative Economy and, with the input from Creative...
