Friday 8th September

This Festival opens with a superb concert. Buy your ticket just for the concert, or save money and get a ticket for the whole weekend.

7:30-11pm

£25 or get a weekend ticket.
Sandpit Field
Concert featuring

Sam Kelly & the Lost Boys

Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys are one of the most exciting bands to enter the UK Folk scene in the past twenty years. They performed at Swanage Folk festival a few years ago and the audience loved them so much we've invited them back. Sam Kelly is a BBC Radio 2 Folk...

Melrose Quartet

From deep roots in their hometown’s vibrant music, song and dance scene, to smashing concert appearances in the UK and abroad, Sheffield-based Melrose Quartet have attracted a reputation for making music that truly connects with people. All four are internationally...

Honey & the Bear

Honey & the Bear were a tour de force on the UK Folk Festival circuit in 2022. The British folk and roots duo combine delicately interweaving vocal harmonies with emotive and evocative songwriting. With a diverse range of sounds and textures, and rhythms that flow...

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Saturday 9th September

There are events all around town, some free, some in the conservative club (paid), and a great live concert to finish the evening. Buy your tickets for individual concerts or or save money and get a weekend ticket. PLUS craft fair, food stalls, beer tent and children’s entertainment on Sandpit Field.

All day

Free to enjoy
Various locations

 

Morris Dance sides

3:00 procession

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All day

£4 or get a weekend ticket.
Various locations

 

Workshops and singalongs

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1:00-3.30pm

£15 or get a weekend ticket.
Conservative Club

Comedy club

featuring

Den Miller (compere)

Rob Barrett

Rob Barrett is a Dudley-born and Cornwall-based comic poet, humourist and singer. His brain-tickling, word-mangling performance combines clever word play, verse and song with satire, parody and audience participation. Rob deals with such important topics as squid,...

Raymond and Mr Timpkins

Cutting their teeth compering and performing in Comedy and Variety nights at The Wedgewood Rooms in Southsea, Raymond and Mr Timpkins watched the nineties gently wafted past until London called. With the fledgling post-fix, "Revue", added, they blasted the clubs with...

Den Miller

Strong melodies, catchy sing-along choruses and intelligent lyrics, are the trademark of songs composed and performed by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Den Miller. Den is an engaging and entertaining live performer, delivering his music and his message...

Midday- 5pm

Free to enjoy

Sandpit Field

Concert featuring

Keith Slater

Keith Slater has been a professional musician since 1981 and has toured extensively around the British Isles. He has recorded with well known bands such as 60’s group Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders, the nationally acclaimed folk act The Fastest Bat and Lancashire...

Krelys

KRELYS are a high energy Irish trad band from Cornwall. They have a repertoire comprising the best of the tradition – contemporary tunes from top Irish musicians, and those from the core of Irish music. Add in powerful songs with strong social commentary and you have...

Purbeck Ukulele Band

Purbeck U3A Ukuleles are a group of joyous people of mixed abilities all wanting to learn and play the ukulele. The group started in 2018 with 15 wanting to learn the ukulele. The group became so popular that it quickly grew, they are now over 40 members. Bring your...

Buffalo Gals

Buffalo Gals are an Old Time Country String Band, perhaps the UK’s favourite. They are at the forefront of the current wave of American roots-inspired music, representing a revival of the old string band tradition in its most vibrant form. Their live shows  are...

Krelys

KRELYS are a high energy Irish trad band from Cornwall. They have a repertoire comprising the best of the tradition – contemporary tunes from top Irish musicians, and those from the core of Irish music. Add in powerful songs with strong social commentary and you have...

7:30-11pm

£25 or get a weekend ticket.

Sandpit Field
Concert featuring

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

The Darkening’s inspiration comes from the wild, dramatic, weather-bitten countryside along Hadrian’s Wall, which seems so quintessentially Northumbrian…and yet, 1900 years ago that same landscape was inhabited by people from the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire,...

Magpie Lane

Magpie Lane is a five-piece folk band from Oxford, who specialise in traditional English songs and dance tunes. They have been delighting audiences for over 25 years and released ten critically-acclaimed albums; each combining powerful vocals and vigorous dance tunes...

Keith Slater

Keith Slater has been a professional musician since 1981 and has toured extensively around the British Isles. He has recorded with well known bands such as 60’s group Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders, the nationally acclaimed folk act The Fastest Bat and Lancashire...

Sunday 10th September

Enjoy breakfast on Sandpit Field, Sunday’s are for fun not lying in bed. There’s events around town, some free, some paid. On Sandpit field enjoy the concerts, craft fair, food stalls, beer tent and children’s entertainment; then a stomping live concert to finish the weekend.

All day

Free to enjoy

Various locations

Morris Dance sides

All day

£4 or get a weekend ticket.

Various locations

Workshops and singalongs

Click for more info.

1:00-3.30pm

£15 or get a weekend ticket.
Conservative Club
Concert featuring

Intarsia

Intarsia is a duo of performers from diverse backgrounds.  Jo May and Sarah Matthews have worked together since 2018, combining voice, violin, viola, octave fiddle, tenor guitar, balafon and a wide range of other percussion instruments. The sounds of these wooden...

Thorn and Roses

Thorn and Roses are a three part harmony group, having been together for 22 plus years. They're performing at this year's Swanage Folk Festival.

Midday- 5pm

Free to enjoy

Sandpit Field
Concert featuring

The Carrivick Sisters

The Carrivick Sisters are one of British folk's best loved duos. They have a passion for old stories, American folk music and a good cup of tea (and who can disagree with that!). The joy they have in playing together is always evident at a Carrivick Sisters...

The Salts

Seasoned musicians The Salts create are creating one of the most exciting and energetic folk concepts. Their sound is unique and mixes original compositions with classic traditional tunes, it's a guaranteed blast. “The Salts - they were just outstandingly brilliant”...

Janice Burns & Jon Doran

Anglo-Scottish duo Janice Burns & Jon Doran have a shared love of traditional music. Their songs tell vivid stories about the nature of life and our place in the world. This storytelling comes alive through vocal harmonies and sensitive interplay between mandolin,...

7:30-11pm

£25 or get a weekend ticket.

Sandpit Field
Concert featuring

Merry Hell

Founded in their native North West of England, Merry Hell is an eight-piece folk-rock band with a history, a pedigree and a bright future. In four short years they have risen to become festival favourites, their first two albums finding favour with critics,...

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

This popular, multi award-winning husband and wife duo exude timeless class with their exquisite brand of traditional and contemporary music. Duos come and duos go… and some nurture and fine tune their art and watch it grow into something totally original and...

Den Miller

Strong melodies, catchy sing-along choruses and intelligent lyrics, are the trademark of songs composed and performed by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Den Miller. Den is an engaging and entertaining live performer, delivering his music and his message...