News
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2023 Lineup announced
The wait is over! 2023 Line up for Priddy Folk Festival is here! This is our 30th festival, and we are thrilled to announce a fabulous line up of acts, covering a wide range of folk genres from the traditional to the more avant-garde. Headliners this year are The Jeremiahs and Dervish from Ireland, Fara…
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We Need You!!
People often remark that the Priddy Folk Festival is very professionally-run. This is great! It’s all all down to our volunteers who work throughout the year planning and preparing the site. On top of this volunteer stewards welcome visitors and musicians throughout the weekend. Many stewards return year after year as they really enjoy working…
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2022 Festival Photos!
We had some splendid weather, and it was great to have the Festival back feeling almost as though it never stopped! We’d like to give a big Thank you! to our official Festival photographers, Focus On Photography, a Wells-based amateur photography group led by a friend of the festival, Stuart Baynes. We would like to…
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How was Priddy 2022 for you?
We have tried to put on some great music, dance and children’s activities. As always there was a fantastic atmosphere and, this year, amazing weather – for which we want to say a big “THANK YOU!” Every year we seek feedback so we can improve the festival – so please let us know what you…
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Campsite is Full
Sorry but we cannot sell any more camping tickets for the 2022 Festival. If you want to camp, you can still get camping at Ebborways Campsite which is only a short walk from the festival.
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Have you considered being a Steward?
There are plenty of ways to enjoy Priddy Folk Festival – from taking in the free events as a casual visitor to being a fully paid up weekender. But have you ever thought about volunteering as a Priddy Folk Festival steward? Being a steward means you can get involved in many different aspects of the…
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Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow – December Concert
Priddy Folk Festival is hosting the second live concert in Priddy Village Hall on Saturday, December 11, 2021 with Kit Hawwes and Aaron Catlow. All the 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 this event!…
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Live Music In Priddy!
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! Medicine Creek…
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We missed you!
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…
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Wish You Were Here!
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…
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Vaccine Hopes
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,…
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Share your videos!
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…