Concerts, workshops, children’s activities, sessions and ceilidh.
Featuring 50+ bands and over 200 dance performances for your weekend by the sea.

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Events across the town centre and seafront.
Watch Swanage come alive with music, dance, colour and smiles.

A weekend of great music including:
Gerry Colvin Band,
Merry Hell,
The Longest Johns,

AllSort'd,
Andrew Helson's Irish session,
Banter,
Dark Sheep,
Honey and the Bear,
Janice Burns & Jon Doran,
Jez Lowe,
Man the lifeboats,
Mandy Woods,
Murphy's Lore Trio,
Nick Parker,
Ninebarrow,
Polly Morris,
Purbeck Youth Tradfolk Collective,
Reg Meuross,
Sian and Rob Colquhoun,
Swamp Stomp String Band,
The Clementine Lovell Trio,
Wareham Whalers,
Wight Hot Pipes,
A Fondness for Melancholy (Part 2),
Allan Winter,
Allan Winter’s Song & Music Session,
Alongshore,
Amy Hopwood ‘Funny Folk’ Song Session ,
Andrew James Band,
Antoine (of Antoine & Owena),
Boodle,
Celtic Confusion,
Celtic Confusion Instrumental Duo,
Doghouse Folkalypsomenco Duo,
Dorset Local Vocals,
Goldefynche,
Greyhound’s Leap,
Haze – Fire,
Kelp!,
Kitty Vernon's Song Session.,
Maiden Oak,
North ‘n’ South,
Open Music Session,
Pergin,
Rev. Green,
Sam Capper,
Sophie Wright & Richard Wirdnam,
St. Fian,
State of Undress Acoustic Trio ,
Steve Tattum's English Music Session,
Stringfellas,
The Amy Hopwood Trio,
The Bere Essentials,
The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show,
Tim Lacey,
Time & Tide Theatre – ‘Who's Afear'd’,
Tony and Una,
Tweed in Bourbon,
Valise Noir Storytelling Theatre

Swanage Folk Festival is a weekend of live folk music, Morris dancing, workshops, street performances and a ceilidh, bringing together performers and visitors from across the UK  in the Dorset seaside town of Swanage.

Free daytime events as well as ticketed concerts.

11th - 13th of September 2026
Biggest UK festival of dance sides  

Why do people fall in love with Swanage Folk Festival?

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Fills Swanage with live music and dance displays

Family fun & craft fair.
Childrens entertainers balloons
Swanage Folk Festival on Sandpit Field
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Voluntary, not for profit, organisation.

The festival is run by volunteers, any surplus income goes to local good causes, your help would make a huge difference to the festival. Click here for information about helping

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