2026 Dates and Season Tickets
Join us next year 31st July – 7 August 2026. A limited number of season tickets are now on sale (online only) at 2025 Super Early bird rates. This is the lowest these tickets will be: https://sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/
Event Changes Friday 8th Aug
801 0930 Arts Centre Talk – Cancelled re illness – not replaced 831 1100 Cellar Bar – Nigel Smith replaces Sam Hindley as MC 844 1430 Arts Centre Talk – cancelled re illness – replaced by Barny Butterfield – in search of the Golden Apple (was Thursday) 849 1500 Cellar Bar – Nicola from Stick in […]
Event Changes Thursday and Friday
THURSDAY: Event 726 11.30am in the Arts Centre – In Search of the Golden Apple is now on Friday 2.30pm (replacing Janet Dowling). Event 734 1.15-2.15pm is in Guide HQ as programme. Event 742 1.15-2.30pm is in the Arts Centre. FRIDAY: Event 801 9.30am Children’s Street and Playground Games talk is cancelled due to illness. […]
John Gasson Jig Competition 2025 Results
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
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
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 […]