What's On 2012

What's on

Coming to the Priddy Folk Festival doesn’t mean you’ll be staying in just one place as we have several venues you can only enter with a ticket.  Swildons and Eastwater are our main tents, both named after cave systems that run beneath the village.  There are also acts in both the village hall and the church.  Without a ticket, you will be missing out on some seriously good music from the fabulous acts listed below!

Line-up so far:

• John Mc Cusker, John Doyle & Mike McGoldrick
• Spiers & Boden
• Jamie Smith's Mabon
• Spiro
• Urban Folk Quartet
• Brooks Williams
• Belshazzar’s Feast
• Rory Mc Leod & the Familiar Strangers
• Jackie Oates band
• Baraka
• Will Kaufman
• Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
• The Young ‘Uns
• Walsh & Pound
• The Incontinentals
• Florida Ceilidh band & Phil Bassindale
• Three Cane Whale
• Kevin Brown
• The Jaywalkers
• Stompin’ Dave
• James Findlay & Alex Cummings
• The Backroom Band
• Tattermedallion
• The Willbees
• Djambo
• Dick Stephens
• Freshly Ground
• The Drystones

If you don’t have a ticket, there is still plenty to see and do: We have a club tent with showcase concerts and two ‘open mike’ sessions; a dance festival with workshops in Eastwater (Saturday all day and Sunday morning) where you can watch some events and join in with others, for example, a Ceilidh and a French bal.  There are also several workshops in the club tent and sing arounds and sessions in the New Inn conservatory.  As usual, there will be plenty happening in the Queen Vic too.

As last year, we have the Market Square in the Market Field which is always fun to go and visit.  There are more dances to watch and various impromptu acts!  Naturally, there is an eclectic mix of stalls to go and visit.

If you are coming with children, Professor Panic is looking forward to welcoming the younger festival goers with an accompanying adult to the Children’s Festival in their tent on the green.  There will be lots of craft activities to keep everyone entertained.

Both Saturday and Sunday morning feel free to get up early and join in with the yoga sessions that will be running.  Dr Jodie Lewis will be giving a guided archaeological walk of the area a little later on Saturday and on Sunday morning at 9.30, Rev Paula will be holding a special festival church service.

Don’t forget, there will be lots of 21^st birthday celebrations to join in with, so make sure you are in the right place at the right time!

Youth project

• The Wells Blue School folk project with Will Lang
• The Under 21s scratch band – with Dyer Cummings

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