This page gives an overview of who is joining us. Check out the Main Programme to help plan your week.
PRE-FESTIVAL SPECIALS:
Fisherman’s Friends / George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain / Steeleye Span
MAIN FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas ● Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham ●
Angeline Morrison & The Sorrow Songs Band ● Blowzabella ●
Blazin’ Fiddles ● Catrin Finch & Aoife Ni Bhriain ● Chris While & Julie Matthews ●
Chris Wood & Andy Cutting ● Daphne’s Flight ● Eliza Carthy ● Granny’s Attic ● Jack Rutter ●
Jo Freya 50th Special ● Karine Polwart ● Kate Rusby ● Kinnaris Quintet ● Kitewing ● Mad Dog Mcrea ● Mànran ● Martin Carthy ● Martin Simpson ● Melrose Quartet ● McGoldrick McCusker Doyle● National Youth Folk Ensemble ● O’Hooley & Tidow ● Oysterband ● Paul Downes & Phil Beer ● Ralph McTell ● The Rheingans Sisters ●
Sea Song Sessions (Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter) ●
Spiers & Boden ● Spooky Men’s Chorale ● Steve Knightley & Friends introducing Dream In Colours ●
The Breath ● The Melsons (Melrose Quartet & The Wilsons)
Aaron Horlock & Nick Goode ● Alden & Patterson ● Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves ● Arthur Coates and Kerran Cotterell ● Arbrevyn ● Ben & Sel ● Bird In The Belly ● Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones ● Cahalen Morrison ● Camus ● Charm Of Finches ● Chloe Matharu ● Detta Kenzie ● Elye Cuthbertson ● Emily Portman ● Eugenia Georgieva ● Exmouth Shanty Men ● Fay Hield ● Feis Rois Ceilidh Trail ● Filkin’s Ensemble ● Filkin’s Drift ● Frankie Archer ● Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch ● Germa Adan ● Goblin Band ● Guinea Lane ● Holly Clarke ● Jali Bakary Konteh ● Janice Burns & Jon Doran ● Jez Lowe ● Louise Rogan ● Maddie Morris ● Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh ● Mikey Kenney ● Miranda Sykes ● Mishra ft. Deepa Shakthi ● Old Spot ● Oli Matthews Band ● Phil Tyler & Sarah Hill ● RE:VULVA ● Robb Johnson ● Rory McLeod ● Roswell ● Ryan Young ● Samia Malik ● Saltfishforty● The Shackleton Trio ● Stick In The Wheel ● Strandline ● Teilhard Frost ● The Wilderness Yet ● The Great Sea Choir ● Tim Edey ● Togmor ● The Underground Sun ● We Are The Monsters ● Will Pound & Jenn Butterworth ● Wheelhouse Folk Choir ● Will Allen ● Windjammer ● Wychbury ● Zulu Tradition ● Unearthing – Stories of Sidmouth
A Sailor Amongst Tailors ● Alex Skinner ● Amelie Surridge ● Amy Gill ● Bridge & Boden ● Devon Youth Folk Ensemble ● Elflock ● Kirsty McLachlan ● Rowan Scourfield ●
Celtic Heartbeat ● Chris Hoban’s Cartography ● Ewan Wardrop : Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project ●
Jim Causley And Miranda Sykes Present: Ghosts, Werewolves And Countryfolk – The Songs And Stories Of Sabine Baring-Gould ●
Pandvani108 ● Matthew Crampton & Paul Hutchinson return as The Folk Detectives ●
Mike O’Connor & Barbara Griggs – The Prophecy Of Merlin ●
Murder At The Grange – Robb Johnson
● Tam Lin Retold (Corinne Harragin & Nick Hart) ● Tipping Point Land & Sea (Luke Daniels and guests)
Ceilidhs & Callers include…
3 Sticks ● Barber Band ● Bedlam ● Brown Boots Boogie Band ● Cock & Bull Band ● Diatonics ● Folk Camps Party Band ● Granny’s Attic ● Jigfoot ● Melrose Quintet Ceilidh Band ● Monster Ceilidh Band ● Mrs Midnights ● Old Swan Band And Friends ● The Oyster Ceilidh Band ● Out Of Hand ● Polkaworks ● Step Ceilidh Party (Toby Bennett, Jane Bird with Brown Boots with Will Chamberlain) ● Tickled Pink ● Chris Wood & Andy Cutting
Alison Rowley (P) ● Barry Goodman ● Cate Haynes (P) ● Erin Mansfield (P) ● Emma Wooders (P) ● Fee Lock (P) ● Gordon Potts ● Hannah Moore (P) ● Ian Nichols ● Jane Bird (P) ● Nick Walden ● Nancy Potts ● Michael Catovsky (P) ● Sarah Clough (P)
Caller Listings Key
A variety of teaching and calling styles are used at dances and dance workshops. The calling/teaching style of an event is indicated using a code: (G), (A), or (P):
(G) indicates that an event will be called using gendered role terms.
(A) indicates that an event will be called using alternative ungendered role terms (e.g. lead/follow or larks/robins).
(P) indicates that an event will be called without using role terms, emphasizing positional patterns, flow, and relationships between dancers (e.g. neighbour, opposite, people facing the windows).
Access Folk ● Alan Austen ● Annie Winter ● Bill Crawford ● Bob & Gill Berry
● Chris Foster ● Christine Kydd ● Colin Andrews with Des & Maggie Redwood ●
Dan Quinn & Mike Bettison ● Doc Rowe ● Eddie Upton ● George Frampton ● Graham O’Callaghan ●
Jack Lynch ● Jack Worth ● Jennifer Reid ● Jill Pidd ● John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris
● Jon Shapley ● Katie Howson ● Kitty Vernon & Tim Edwards ● Len Graham ●
Lucy Wright ● Macdara Yeates ● Martin Graebe ●
Michael Heaney ● Moira Craig ● Mossy Christian & Megan Wisdom ●
Peter & Barbara Snape ● Sara Grey ● Seb Stone ● Sheila Miller & Moira Craig ●
Thomas McCarthy ● The Wilson Family ● Vic Legg
Ean Richardson ● David Heathfield ● Janet Dowling ● Matthew Crampton ● Mo Keast ● Pandvani108 ●
Taffy Thomas ● Tam Lin Retold (Corinne Harragin & Nick Hart) ● Tom Goodale
A packed Social Dance programme including…
Adam Hughes ● Alan Brunier & Friends ●Bob Morgan ● Bridget Flett ● Brown Boots plus Will Chamberlain ● Charlotte Rich-Griffin ● Chris & Julie Dewhurst ● Doug Eunson and Sarah Matthews ● Double Dichotomy ● Daisy Black ● FayrePlay ● Folkus Pocus ● Frances Richardson ● Georgia Delve ● Helen & Andy Richards ● Hoik ● Jane Bird & Toby Bennett ● Kerry Fletcher ● Kevin & Carol Monaghan ● Lynne Render ● Nicky McConkey & Kyle Thornhill ●Oscina● Sam Tetley Smith ● Stomping Ground ● 3D ● Vertical Expression ● WillPower ●
WORKSHOPS so far include:
Aaron Horlock (guitar) ● Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (melody accompaniment) ● Angeline Morrison (song) ● Avtar Indian Dance (bhangra dance) ● Camus (northumbrian pipes & tunes) ● David Heathfield (storytelling) ● Erin Brown & Barry Watson (family sessions) ● Eugenia Georgieva ● Ewan Wardrop (step dance) ● Filkin’s Drift (creative, contemporary folk) ● Ilse Pedler (poetry) ● Instep Research Team (step dance) ● John Dipper (fiddle) ● John Kirkpatrick (the festival concert band) ● Jon Boden (ColourChord) ● Louisa Davies-Foley (bones) ● Matt Sullivan (flamenco guitar) ● Mark Clarke creative making (craft) ● Michael Catovsky (calling) ● Mike Bailey (West Gallery) ● Neil and Meg Browning (Manouche -gypsy jazz) ● Nick & Mary Barber (the festival big band) ● New Jerusalem (shapenote) ● Norma Mills (Folkulele) ● Saltfishforty (orkney tunes) ● Samia Malik (indian song) ● Sandra Kerr (the festival choir) ● Sara Grey (banjo accompaniment for song) ● Saul Rose (melodeon) ● Squeezebox from Scratch (Ed Rennie & Helena Painting) (melodeon) ● Stream of Sound (song) ● Stephen Rowley (anglo concertina + more) ● Teilhard Frost (Appalachian) ● Zulu Tradition (African song/dance) ●
JJ Waller – Artist Photographer in Residence – Your Town My Town Project
Shooting Roots ● Stream Of Sound ● Halsway Young Folk
Display dance & workshops with… Beltane Border Morris ● Eynsham Morris ● Feet First Appalachian Cloggers ● Gog Magog Molly ●
Great Western Morris ● Hadrian Clog ● Kekezza ● Liberty Hill Northwest Morris ●
NYFTE (National Youth Folklore Troupe of England) ● Sussex Junction Morris ● Ten Hill Morris (US) ●
Wakefield Morris Dancers ● Whip The Cat Rapper and Clog
MC’s Chris Rose & Graham Lee
Free Children’s Festival – A fantastic free programme of artists and activities over 7 days including:
After Dinner Clog ● Avtar Indian Dance ● Bryony Griffith ● Cathy Brown ● Charles Allison ● Chiltern Hundreds Northwest Morris ● Crafts with Albertine Symes, Angela Fordham, Pamela France, Susanna Webster, Jazz & James Bridgwater Court, Anita Hughes, Jenny Foster, Catherine Wilkins ● David Gibb ● Drum Runners ● Geoff Court & Team ● Gilly Brenner, Alex Skinner, Charlotte & Richard Surridge ● Go Wild Yoga ● Greg & Kay Smallbone ● Jackie Oates and Miriam Ayling ● Jon Brenner & Friends ● Mornings at the Maypole (Richard Surridge, Hannah Greaves, Erin & Barry Watson) ● Oli Matthews Band ● Peter Chand ● Sensory Storytime – Lorna & Gary Dimmock ● Sidmouth Postman with Lizzie York & Sarah Gibb ● Ukulele with Sue Hoskins ● Tales from the Lighthouse (Oliver Bishop & Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne) ● Team STOMPIT! (Ray Langton with Adam Courthold, Anna Mullens, Charlotte Oxberry, Josh Smallbone, Mark Thorn, Matthew Keegan Phipps, Nick Powling, Rob Gifford ● Teddies Hospital with Bev Langton ● The Singing Hats (Karen and Phil Morris) ● The Spooky Men’s Chorale Family Show ● Thingumajig Theatre Lantern Workshop ● Tippy Toes Reflexology ● Trevor and Eileen Suckling ● Under The Bed Theatre ● Wild Heart Wales
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Find out more about each exciting part of the programme:
Pre-Festival Specials | The Ham Concert Marquee | The Bulverton (Standing Venue) | Ceilidhs | The Manor Pavilion | Workshops | Folk Dance | In The Tradition | Display Dance | Small Stages: Big Heart | Story Telling & Spoken Word | Youth Festival | Children’s Festival