Events are located around the town centre, mainly Sandpit Field and Shore road. Click here for a map of the locations.
Some parts of the Festival are free and others need you to buy a ticket. Click here for more details about tickets.
| Friday | Free events |
| Saturday | Dance sides |
| Sunday | Workshops |
| All bands |
Alton Morris will be in their red and green tatter jackets and bowler hats at Swanage Folk Festival September 2022
Alton Morris is a mixed border Morris dance team based in the town of Alton, Hampshire. They dance in distinctive red woollen hats which were copied from the brewer’s hat seen in the town museum and they used a local lion hop mark as a logo.
They started as a men’s Cotswold side in 1979.
Each year Swanage is filled with a music and dance spectacle,
including FREE and ticketed events across the weekend.
Craft fair, children’s entertainment, afternoon concerts – On Sandpit field
Dance displays, a procession and music – all around the town
Evening concerts – on Sandpit field
Comedy Club and concerts and in the Conservative Club –
Ceilidh in Swanage School
Workshops – various locations