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Sidmouth FolkWeek is a unique week-long seaside celebration of music, dance and song taking place in the charming East Devon regency coastal resort – a must in every festival goer’s annual diary.
Besides the music you can expect ceilidhs, social dance, Morris, dance displays, workshops, Children’s Festival, Shooting Roots youth programme and more.
See www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk/ for more information.
Sidmouth Folk Week Pre-Festival Concert
- Kate Rusby
- Ninebarrow
- Mike Boston
Welcome To Sidmouth 2015
- Great Western Morris
- Sidmouth Steppers
- Sidmouth Traditional Mummers
- Beltane Border Morris
- Mike Boston
Ham Evening Concert
Bulverton Marquee
- The Demon Barbers
Bulverton Late Night Extra Ceilidhs
- The Discussion Topic
- Simon Care Trio
Ham Afternoon Concert
- Nancy Kerr
- The Sweet Visitor Band
- James Delarre
- Saul Rose
- Andy Irvine
- Lynched
Bulverton Marquee: Will Lang's Silent School Disco
Special Manor Pavilion: Tunes From The Trenches
Bulverton Marquee: Roots Dance Party
Special Manor Pavilion: Lost In Blue
Bulverton Marquee: fRoots Presents
Special Manor Pavilion
Special Manor Pavilion: Spotlight Scotland
Special Manor Pavilion: 321 Years Of Northumbrian Music
Bulverton Marquee: Euro Dance Party
Special Manor Pavilion: Nautical Farewell
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Kate Rusby
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Great Western Morris
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The Poozies
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Altan
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Show Of Hands
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Vin Garbutt
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Blowzabella
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The Spooky Men's Chorale
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Julie Fowlis
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Peatbog Faeries
Based on the Isle of Skye, the Peatbog Faeries have been nominated for Best Live Act at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012 and described as 'the future…
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Edward II
Featuring a seven-piece line up of melodeon and sax, fiddle and trombone nestling snugly cheek-by-jowl, their repertoire strolls expansively from…
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Ceilidhography
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Hekety
Sheffield's finest! Mixing traditional and self-penned tunes, they have been playing cutting edge English dance music since their formation in 1997…
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Whapweasel
Renowned folk dance band Whapweasel have been delighting and exhausting the folk dance enthusiasts for the last 20 years. This solid eight piece folk…
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Polkaworks
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Random
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The Wilson Family
Difficult to find better harmony singing. Always an evening of passionate fiery music with plenty of good banter thrown in.
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Emily Smith
Dumfriesshire born singer Emily Smith first made her mark on the Scottish music scene when she won the 2002 BBC Radio Scotland's Young Scottish…
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Nancy Kerr
Already a respected interpreter of traditional material, Nancy has emerged as a writer of rare style with a cornucopia of contemporary narratives…
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Andy Irvine
Hailed as 'a tradition in himself', musician, singer and songwriter Andy Irvine has consistently been a major influence throughout his long career…
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Chris Smither
“New Orleans-bred folk-bluesman Smither has few peers. As a musician he’s expanded the six-strings-and-foot-stomps delivery of John Lee Hooker into an…
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Martin Carthy
Former member of Steeleye Span, The Albion Band and folk super group Band Of Hope, Martin Carthy was awarded the MBE in 1998 for services to folk…
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Jackie Oates
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Will Lang
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John Kirkpatrick
An outstanding folk singer/songwriter who has some magnificent songs to his name and who is also probably this country's finest squeezebox player…
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Tantz
Defying genres and breaking musical boundaries, Tantz fuse the Eastern European Jewish folk sounds of Klezmer with ska grooves, hip hop grooves, and…
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Debs Newbold
Storyteller, word wrangler, crowd tamer Debs’ powerful storytelling brings together the poetic and the irreverent, the ancient and the defiantly…
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Spiro
Take four musicians from backgrounds as diverse as classical and punk, and embark on a musical adventure. Tunes collide with rhythms and counter…
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Tashi Lhunpo Monks
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The Mischa MacPherson Trio
From the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, Mischa, Conal and Innes grew up surrounded by music and the Gaelic tradition that is rooted in the natural…
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Alistair Anderson
Internationally acknowledged as the master of the English concertina and Northumbrian pipes, Alistair has been as the forefront of traditional music…
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Topette
An Anglo-French sensation playing self-penned and traditional music from anywhere, creating exciting acoustic dance music, which is equally good to…
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Exmouth Shanty Men
One of the most exciting, colourful and entertaining acts to appear on the traditional folk scene in years.
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Ninebarrow
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Sidmouth Steppers
Folk dancers, who are eternally associated with the Sidmouth Folk Festival.
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Sally Barker
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