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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 […]
Port Royal/Esplanade/Drill Hall Changes
If you’re local to Sidmouth, you’ll already be aware of the ongoing building works at Port Royal, but for those returning for the first time this year, it may come as a bit of a surprise when you visit the eastern end of the Esplanade. The South West seafood chain Rock Fish has purchased the […]
Let it bring hope . . special fundraiser for young gazan storytellers
Join Storyteller David Heathfield and Musician Min Smart for Tremendous Traditional Tales as told by young Gazans. This special event takes place at the festival on Monday 4 August 2025, at 8.30 – 9.30pm, at the Old Dissenting Meeting House. Entry by donation on the door – all funds will go to family fundraisers for […]
film screening – discount for festival ticket holders
Season Ticket holders can get discounted entry to ‘A Small Quiet English Town’ at the Scott Cinema. There are two showings – on Sunday 3rd August at 7pm and on Wednesday 6th August at 11am. Tickets available online at Scott Cinemas.
look out for a trio of exhibitions celebrating the festival!
Sidmouth Wallspace is now showing “May Day Madness” by Kyle Baker, and a new photographic exhibition “A Sidmouth Folk Festival Portrait” is set to open at the weekend in the Riverside Artspace in the Sensory Garden, with the twin Market Square telephone box micro museums simultaneously hosting linked installations; “A SMALL QUIET ENGLISH TOWN” and […]