Sorry guys….tickets for The Proclaimers’ headline performance at this year’s Beverley Folk Festival have now sold out.

There are, however, tickets for other individual performances available along with full weekend passes, although you’ll have to be quick as these are selling out fast too.

In our opinion one of the nicest UK folk festivals, Beverley takes [...]

Unless you’re lucky enough to live in Cambridge (in which case you can snaffle your residents-only perks now) you’ll be eQueueing for your Co-Operative Cambridge Folk Festival 2010 from the 16 May.

As usual there’s a starry line-up from every quarter of the cultural map with the big headlines going to Kris Kristofferson, Seasick [...]

Preview by Andrea Wren (www.andreawren.co.uk)

WYCHWOOD FESTIVAL 2010 4-6 JUNE, ONLY ONE MONTH AWAY!

Folky fun for all the family is on its way as the Wychwood Festival draws closer. Tickets are still available for this weekend event in June, which promises grooving opportunities a-plenty and much bopping to classic Indie pop like [...]

Leon Rosselson celebrated his 75th birthday last year, and 50 years of
writing and singing topical and political song. A luddite at heart,
Leon was still writing his songs and books on his typewriter when the
rest of us were embracing word processors and computers. Yet, when a song is written specially for the election and has a [...]

Preview by Joy Thomas

WAHOOOP! It’s here again! Only when the sun comes out and the leaves reappear on the trees does the idea of Latitude Festival seem possible and not some crazy sun-starved daydream.

Oh, to revel in the memories of last year: Grace Jones changing her hat for every single song she performed; Nick [...]

Joy Thomas

De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester

Gawd, how exciting! De Montfort Hall and Gardens will resonate this June with the sound of folky songstresses as The Big Session welcomes sweetie pie Cara Dillon, folkingcool love bunny Jackie Oates (whose latest album Hyperboreans the press release delightfully mis-spells as Hyperbeans) AND dear Kate Rusby. Oysterband [...]

One of the most original and stunning singers of traditional music, Cara Dillon, is currently touring, following the release of her beautiful fourth album, Hill of Thieves.

The album marks a return to her roots with an outstanding collection of traditional songs. Already a highly acclaimed torch-bearer of traditional music, songwriter Cara, and [...]

Hugh Wilson

If you fancy a festival with 14 stages, four mung bean burger stands and a Big Bank sponsored corporate VIP alcopops enclosure, Larmer Tree is probably not for you.

This is a friendly little festival which makes much of its cosy 4000 capacity and pretty-as-a-picture location on the Wiltshire/Dorset Border. It wins awards for “having [...]

Stephen Taylor

I’ve only been to Doncaster once and I had a Very Bad Day. As the snow melts and the green shoots peek out, I could be tempted back by the sheer loveliness of the local line-up at this year’s Doncaster Folk Festival. Part of the city’s Hothouse festival which encompasses comedy, theatre and [...]

Hugh Wilson

You’ll know Holmfirth as the location for Last of the Summer Wine, the endless BBC sitcom that featured lovable pensioner rogues Compo, Clegg, Dopey, Happy and Not At All Funny and always used to be on at your gran’s when you popped round on Sunday.

But Holmfirth has so much more to offer than guided [...]