Priddy Folk Festival

Priddy Folk Festival is hosting the second live concert in Priddy Village Hall on Saturday December 11th.  With Kit Hawwes and Aaron Catlow. All proceeds will go towards recovering some of our Covid costs and helping us bring back the festival in 2022. So we really hope to see you at his event. Kit Hawes and Aaron Catlow Kit Hawes …

Medicine Creek Cures Covid Blues Priddy Folk Festival is hosting two live concerts in Priddy Village Hall in October and December to help us get back into live music! All proceeds will go towards recovering some of our Covid costs and helping us bring back the festival in 2022. So we really hope you can support these events. The first …

The weather was lovely on what would have been festival weekend. You couldn’t join us but we hosted a concert on YouTube to an invited audience under the then strict covid rules. Despite the restrictions the bands were fantastic and the audience (mostly of organisers and volunteers) really enjoyed the event. The evening opened with the talented Dilly Boys Then …

We really wanted to mark the weekend of our festival with live music. Unfortunately the dance with Covid has made that really quite difficult! But we are determined, to do our bit for bringing back live music as best we can staying safely within the regulations! On Saturday 10th July at 7:30pm we are going to hold a live concert …

It is great news about the recent approval of a Covid vaccine, and of course we all have our fingers crossed for this meaning a return to “normality” in 2021. But we are watching developments closely to understand what we will be able to do safely in July. We really want to run a festival, but only if it is …

We hope you enjoyed the videos we released for our virtual festival. They had more views than we can have people come to the festival! And a very big thank you to all the generous souls donating to our crowdfunder campaign, it will definitely help us make a safe festival for 2021! (there is still time to get some of …

Lively local community choir the Priddy Singers has been working hard over recent weeks to put together a video to mark the weekend of the Priddy Folk Festival 2020. From rehearsals over zoom to small, socially distanced groups singing out on Priddy Green, we have been busy preparing our selfie videos, even roping in our children, extended families and friends …

This weekend 10th -12th July would have been folk festival weekend in Priddy. Last weekend we released the Priddy Rising “Lockdown Video” a collaboration project with the Blue School, Wells, featuring performances from Blue School students. This Saturday (11th July) when the festival should have been happening, we are releasing a video of messages and performances from some of the …

One of the unfortunate consequences of us postponing this year’s festival has been that we cannot run our annual music project with The Blue School, Wells. The Priddy Rising project has been run with The Blue School, Wells since 2012. Each year the festival pays for professional musicians to work with a group of around twenty students who give up …