John Gasson Jig Competition 2025 Results 

by Sidmouth Folk Festival • August 4, 2025

We had another hugely successful Jig Comp yesterday. The level of dancing was of the highest standard. Full results below: 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗝𝗶𝗴 1st – Emma Laister and Mark Rogers 2nd – Emma Wooders and Jerry West 3rd – Simon Pipe and Matthew Keegan-Phipps 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗝𝗶𝗴 1st – Mark Pinder, Albert Hansell and Ian Dedic 2nd […]


Event Changes – Sunday 3 August

by Sidmouth Folk Festival • August 2, 2025

Sadly Janet Dowling is unwell & cannot perform Folktales of Fossils & Dinosaur Bones (or Lust or Revenge 844 on Fri 8th). It will be replaced by a new event. 11:30am Bob Lewis – Winds of Change: Folk Music in the Last Century to Now Bob Lewis, singer & historian, takes us the Sussex folk […]


Event Changes – Saturday 2 August

by Sidmouth Folk Festival • August 2, 2025

221 12-1.30pm Primary School Hall Making Art in Troubled Times Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances Simon Roth & Joy Becker cannot attend. Corinne Harragin, storytelling from the Troubled Waters show will offer a ‘The Image Speaks: an introduction to the craft of oral storytelling’ workshop. Programme Change Sat 2nd August. 236 2.30-3.30pm Talk: The Death […]