Twelve Months of Folk Festivals
10-12-2012
Twelve Months of Folk Festivals
Folk festivals are one of the principal ways in which people enjoy their folk music and dance. Folk festivals are not just for summer – you can go to a festival just about every week of the year! Get your diaries ready and mark up the dates of your favourite folk weekends with the English Dance & Song (EDS) magazine’s list of Folk Festivals in 2013. There are over 170 of them in England and Wales.
Editor of EDS magazine, and compiler of the annual list, Derek Schofield explains, 'Folk festivals come in all shapes and sizes. There are the large festivals such as Cambridge, and the small-scale such as the English Country Music Weekend; green field sites as well as town or single-venue based events. There are winter events such as Cheltenham Festival, and seaside resort venues such as Sidmouth and Broadstairs. Some festivals encompass all the folk performing arts, while others concentrate on dance, or sea shanties, or bagpipes.'
The list of Folk Festivals in 2013 is published in the Winter 2012 issue of EDS magazine, and is also available on the EFDSS website.
Additions and updates to the list can be sent to eds.editor@efdss.org
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