General News

Tickets are now available for this lovely festival. It boasts an exciting mix of top folk artists and dance sides. The Festival, organised by St. Neots Folk Club, is based at the Priory Centre and they are pleased to involve local singers, dancers,musicians, and helpers from the Folk Club.

Andrew and Margaret Watchorn return with their fifth series of summer concerts in north Northumberland, celebrating the music of the local area.

Andrew and Margaret Watchorn are running a fifth series of their summer concerts around north Northumberland this year, celebrating the music of the area.

Held at the Whitby Sports and Social Club at Ellesmere Port, this new venue for the festival promises to be the best ever!

The Orkney Folk Festival committee has confirmed that it is working alongside Serco NorthLink Ferries to ensure that any potential festival travel problems are avoided, in the wake of the loss of the lifeline Stromness-Scrabster ferry link.

Hands Up for Trad are launching a new tune collection for 2014 which will feature tunes chosen from a tune competition plus invites to musicians.

North Yorkshire’s newest music festival, BAMfest is launching a song-writing competition to honour one of the county’s musical stalwarts. Harvey Blogg, who died recently aged 73, was heavily involved in the acoustic music scene in North Yorkshire. He organised music clubs in Bedale for many years and was also a regular at Saltburn Folk Festival.

Held annually over the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend in the village of Kelsall, about 8 miles from Chester, the Chester Folk Festival boasts concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, singarounds and sessions, with displays, a craft fair and family events too.

Folk at the Salmon Bothy in Portsoy now present their fourth festival, a weekend full of songs, tunes, stories, poetry and dance.