line up so far..
Check out the Main Programme, Who’s On When and the Taster Programme for more info.
Season, All-in-One & selected event tickets on sale now!
main festival programme so far…
Richard Thompson ● sharon shannon ● dervish ● steve knightley & friends ● dougie maclean ● flook
elephant sessions ● grace petrie ● katherine priddy ● talisk● peatbog faeries ● seth lakeman band ● Gnoss
the east pointers ● jon boden & the remnant kings ● brighde chaimbeul ● martin Carthy with eliza Carthy ● demon barbers
kris drever ● john tams ● 3 Daft Monkeys ● siobhan miller band ● Banter ● John Smith ● Kerr Fagan Van Eyken ● Kim Carnie ● Leveret ● Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver ● Bird Tunes – Miranda Rutter, Rob Harbron and Sam Sweeney ● Phil Beer ● The Rheingans Sisters ● Sam Sweeney ● Stick In The Wheel ● Topette!!
Bailey & Keely ● Ben Matthews ● The Brothers Gillespie ● Bridge & Boden ● Brown Boots ● Brown Wimpenny ● Cecil Sharp House Choir ● Cole Stacey ● Conor Reynolds ● Colum Sands ● Camus ● Craven ● Crows ● Dan Sealey ● Donald WG Lindsay ● Družba ● Edwina Hayes ● Ellie Gowers ● Evergreen ● Exmouth Shanty Men ● Firelight Trio ● Fran & Flora ● Fraser-Coope ● Gadarene ● Gavin Fairhall Lever ● Great Sea Choir ● Guinea Lane Saxophone Quartet ● The Haar ● Hartwin Dhoore & Ross Grant ● Helen Gentile & Lewis Wood ● Helian ● Ian A Anderson ● Iryna Ilnytska ● Jackie Oates Trio ● James Delarre & Will Allen ● Jennifer Reid ● Jon Wilks ● Johnny Campbell ● Juniper ● The Kimberleys ● Nancy Kerr & James Fagan ● Narthen ● Nick Hart & Tom Moore ● Madalitso Band ● Mat Green & Andy Turner ● Matthew Crampton ● MenSing ● Milkweed ● Panjandrum ● Patakas ● Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band ● RE:VULVA ● Reg Meuross ● Remorae ● Rum Ragged ● Rumpled Muslin ● Saul Rose & Maclaine Colston ● Sawol ● Sidmouth Town Band ● Something Sleeps ● Spafford Campbell ● Suntou Susso ● Suthering ● Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary ● Tarren ● Tealeaf ● Tim van Eyken ● Tom McConville & Michael Biggins ● The Lost Sound – Dartmoor Folk Choir ● Wren Music
Eye on the Future: Amelie Surridge ● Amy Gill ● Devon Youth Folk Ensemble ● Foxglove ● Hyem ● Kessenyan ● Lily Lakeman ● Molly Evans ● Wild Flower Riot ● Will Bridge
See the Main Programme for full day by day details
● Alan Austen ● Anne Lamb ● Alex Cumming and Audrey Jaber ● Annie Winter ● Annie Winter & Paul Downes ● Barry Lister ● Benammi Swift ● Bill Crawford ● Bill Murray ● Bob & Gill Berry ● Bob Lewis ● Colin Andrews ● Damien Barber ● Ellen Mitchell ● Frankie Armstrong ● Gan Ainm ● Gemma Khawaja ● George Frampton ● Graham O’Callaghan ● Jon Shapley ● Katie Howson ● Keith Kendrick & Sylvia Needham ● Kevin Sheils ● Kitty Vernon ● Matt Quinn ● Mike Bettison ● Moira Craig ● Mossy Christian ● Pete Coe ● Peter & Barbara Snape ● Sandra Kerr ●Seb Stone ● Sheila Miller ● Taz Tarry ● Tim Edwards ● Vic & Viv Legg
Special shows
● Lady Maisery and Jimmy & Sid – Wakefire, A midsummer celebration ● Grace Will Lead Me Home with Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Jon Bickley and John Palmer ● Fire & Dust – A Woody Guthrie Story with Reg Meuross, Phil Beer, Geraint Watkins, and Marion Fleetwood ● Halsway Young Folk ● Chopped Liver & Unions ● Three Acres and a Cow ● The Lost Art of Lace Telling – with the Jackie Oates Trio ● Where There’s Brass – Tom Kitching ● 200 years of the Squeezebox – John Kirkpatrick ● Matthew Crampton; The Big Muddler ● Folk Roots of Bagpuss with Sandra Kerr ● Dauntless: Grace O’Malley, Pirate Queen with Debs Newbold ●
storytelling & spoken word
Corinne Harragin, Simon Roth & Joy Becker: Troubled Waters ● Daisy Black – Yde and Olive: A medieval love story ● David Heathfield ● Debs Newbold ● Ean Richardson ● Gemma Khawaja – Up Jumped the Crab ● Ilse Pedlar ● Hannah Moore ● Janet Dowling ● Kestrel Morton & Heulwen Williams ● Mike O’Connor & Barbara Griggs ● Moe Keast ● Peter Chand & Kirsten Milliken ● Tom Goodale ● Storms & Silver Hands (Hannah Moore & Amy Cox)
Ceilidhs & Callers include…
Bailey & Keely ● Bagas Fellyon (Nos Lowen) ● Banter ● Bellows & Bows ● Brown Boots Boogie Band ● Crowdy-Kit ● Diatonics ● Frog On A Bike ● Lasair ● Relentless ● Stepcote Hill ● The Barber Band ● The Gloworms ● Sunbird ● EFDSS Ceilidh Band ● Jigfoot ● Juniper ● Whapweasel ● Out To Lunch ● Folk Camps Party Band Lite ● Barber Band Big Band Ceilidh ● Queer Ceilidh Dance Party ● Threepenny Bit ● Helen Gentile & Lewis Wood (Bal)
Alison Rowley ● Annie Bolt ● Barry Goodman ● Erin Mansfield ● Fee Lock ● Gordon Potts ● Ian Nicols ● Jane Bird ● Lisa Heywood ● Nancy Potts ● Martin Clarke ● Mary Panton ● Michael Catovsky ● Prue Reilly ● Sophie Crawford ● Sue Coe
N.B. For a Key to the letters used in Caller Listings see Ceilidhs
workshops & talks so far with…
Alison Frosdick, Rumpled Muslin (Sing Georgia / Sing Africa) ● Alison Rowley (Playing in Sessions / Tune Writing) ● Angeline Morrison (song) ● Amanda MacLean, Rumpled Muslin (Making Words Stick) ● Avtar Indian Dance (bhangra dance) ● Barny Butterfield (Apple DNA) ● Camus (northumbrian pipes & tunes) ● Chan Reid (Sean Nos Singing) ● Charlie Cooper (Myth Country) in conversation with Jon Wilks ● Caroline Muraldo (Caribbean Quadrilles) ● Carol Monaghan (Pilates) ● Cathy Meunier (Balkan Dance) ● Chris Metherell (Step Dance) ● David Heathfield (storytelling) ● Devon Folk Sinfonietta (Dances for a Party) ● Donald WG Lindsay (whistle) ● Erin Brown & Barry Watson (family sessions) ● Exeter FolkSoc (session) ● Fiz Markham (Chords 101) ● Hannah Sanders (Folk Magic)● Ilse Pedler (poetry) ● Instep Research Team (step dance) ● James Delarre (String Ensemble) ● James Frost (Hooden Horses) ● Janet Keet-Black (Step Dance) ● Jannette Stewart (Well Known Tunes at a Steady Pace) ● Janice Burns & Jon Doran (The Festival Choir) ● Jenny Read (Dartmoor Step) ● Jess Arrowsmith & Adam Hughes (Regency Dances) ● Jo Harmer (Step Dance) ● John Dipper (fiddle) ● John Kirkpatrick (the festival concert band) ● Jon Boden (Colourchord) ● Lisa Heywood (Accessible Ceilidhs) ● Louisa Davies-Foley (bones) ● Lady Maisery (song) ● Lucy Farrell (Community Song) ● Mark Clarke / Creativity, Design & Production (Craft & Mindful Mornings) ● Tracey & Mark Norman (Witches of Devon) ● Martin Graebe (Alfred Williams) ● Matt Quinn & Will Allen (Quebec Session) ● Matt Sullivan (Flamenco Music / Guitar) ● Michael Catovsky (calling) ● Mike Bailey (West Gallery) ● Neil and Meg Browning (Manouche jazz) ● Nick & Mary Barber (the festival big band) ● Nick Goode (Fiddle) ● New Jerusalem (shapenote) ● Norma Mills (ukulele) ● Marit Fält (Scandi) ● Pat Brennan (tin whistle) ● Pete Coe (Bouzouki) ● Poppy Price-Dowhan (Accessible Ceilidh) ● Tom Kitching (fiddle) ● Reg Troubshort (Banjo) ● Roy Jones (Bodhran) ● Rum Ragged (Newfoundland Tunes) ● Saul Rose (Advanced Melodeon) ● Simon Harmer (Step Dance) ● Stephen Rowley (Anglo Concertina / Mumming) ● Squeezebox from Scratch (Ed Rennie & Helena Painting) (melodeon) ● Stream of Sound (song) ● Steve Heap (Book Talk) ● Will Allen (Melodeon)
a packed social dance programme including …
Alex Cumming and Audrey Jaber (contra) ● Box of Frogs (contra) ● Brown Boots with Will Chamberlain ● Confluence (bal) ● Contrasaurus (contra) ● Matt Norman and Paul Hutchinson (Playford/English) ● Oscina (Euro) ● Tom Evans and Harriet Barton (Scandi) ● Terry Mann & James Larcombe (early music) ● Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer (Playford/English) ● WillPower (Irish set)
Andrew Swaine (Playford) ● Andy Parr (Scandi) ● Ann Elisabeth Hinchliffe (Regency) ● Brian Stanton (English) ● Carol and Kevin Monaghan (Irish set) ● Charlotte Rich-Griffin ● Kerry Fletcher (euro) ● Louise Siddons (English/contra) ● Rachel Shapiro-Wallace (contra) ● Rhodri Davies (contra/squares) ● Tim Walker (early dance) ● Toby Bennett and Jane Bird (step ceilidh)
display dance and workshops with …
Belle d’Vain ● Boggart’s Breakfast ● Camden Clog ● Catseye Morris ● Crooked Moon ● Earlsdon Morris ● Fosbrooks ●
Gaorsach ● Hammersmith Morris Men ● Pig Dyke Molly ● Sallyport ● Sheffield City ● Windsor Morris ●
with MC’s Chris Rose & Graham Lee
Sidmouth Horse Trials ● The John Gasson Jig Competition
Sidmouth Steppers ● Molly No Mates ● Great Western Morris
children’s festival
a fantastic free programme of artists and activities over 7 days including…
Live theatre ● Crafting ● Puppetry ● Ceilidh band workshops ● Singing workshops ● Live music ● Storytelling ● Forest school ● Early years activities ● Makaton ● Yoga ● Dance
Team STOMPIT! ● The Minims ● Sidmouth Mini Singers ● SongSwell Choir ● Crafts ● The Sidmouth Postman ● Sensory Storytime ● Yoga ● Lantern Making ● Forest School ● Teddies Hospital ● Young Performers Stage ● Pirate Princess ● The Sidmouth Pyjama Party ● A Kid’s Summer Night’s Dream ● Five Rivers Morris ● Sheffield Steel Rapper ● Happy Bubbles Devon
Bryony Griffith ● Cathy Brown ● Catseye Morris ● Charles Allison ● Crafts with Albertine Symes, Angela Fordham, Pamela France, Susanna Webster, Anita Hughes, Jenny Foster, Catherine Wilkins ● Cut-Out Theatre ● Drum Runners ● El Gecko Con Botas ● Erin Brown and Barry Watson ● Gemma Bond ● Geoff Court & Team ● Gilly Brenner, Charlotte Surridge, Becs and Doug Kell, and Kathryn Johnstone ● Go Wild Yoga (Sarah Moss) ● Happy Bubbles Devon ● Jackie Oates and Miriam Ayling ● Joli Blon Cajun Band ● Jon Brenner, Nelly Brewer, Becky Eden-Green and Chez Dunford ● Mornings at the Maypole (Richard Surridge, Hannah Greaves, Erin Brown & Barry Watson) ● Storytellers Peter Chand & Kirsten Milliken ● Sidmouth Postman ● Team STOMPIT! (Ray Langton with Adam Courthold, Anna Mullens, Catherine Gough, Charles Allison, Nonny Tabush, Mark Thorn, Matthew Keegan Phipps, Rob Gifford) ● Teddies Hospital with Bev Langton ● The Crafty Folk with Jazz and James Bridgwater Court ● The Four Friends aka The Singing Donkey ● The Invisibles ● The Singing Hats (Karen and Phil Morris) ● The Stars In The Sky ● Thingumajig Theatre Lantern Workshop ● Trevor and Eileen Suckling ● Ukulele with Sue and Robert Hoskins ● Under The Bed Theatre ● Wild Heart Wales
youth festival
For ages 12-17 and run by Shooting Roots & Stream of Sound, our Youth programme offers a chance to make friends, learn new skills, perform, play and just hang out on the beach. Workshops and events include:
Welcome Session ● Ceilidh calling bootcamp ● Craft Day ● Stream of Sound’s Harmonious Throng ● Story Telling ● Funky World Band ● Dance ● Theatre ● Betsy’s Bash
mcs
Alice Jones ● Annie Bolt ● Barry Goodman ● Barry Lister ● Bill Crawford ● Chris Campbell ● Derek Schofield ● Kevin Sheils ● Louisa Davies-Foley ● Mike Norris ● Nancy Potts ● Sam Hindley ● Simon Care ● Simon Diegan ● Steve Vernon ● Tim Walker