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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…

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…

You cannot come to Priddy Festival this year, so we have found a way to bring the festival to you!! The incredibly talented artist and musician Kate Griffin (of Mishra) is a friend of the festival and was so disappointed not to be coming here this year that she designed a board game just for…

Artists who were due to play at Priddy have told us how much they will be missing playing our festival this year. Some have sent us special recorded messages and tunes. We thought it would be a great idea to put this together into a video to share with you, but when we looked at…

Like most other festivals we have had to postpone our 2020 festival to 2021. The whole village is heartbroken! It is a highlight of the year for us to welcome the festival visitors, so we will miss you. But we are still working on the festival, and making sure that when we come back in…

These are truly extraordinary times. Three months ago, we could not have envisaged where we are today, having spent six weeks in isolation. Unfortunately, it has now become clear that with the continuation of social distancing we will not be able to run the folk festival this year. We are naturally very disappointed to make…

The latest government extension of the isolation period still gives very little information about what the exit plans are, and at what point it will be considered safe to hold events like ours. As a charity we feel we have an obligation to put on the festival if we can, both for the enrichment of…

We want you to share our thinking about the 2020 Priddy Folk Festival. Our dates, 10, 11 & 12 July, are currently beyond the estimated dates for the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. However, nobody knows for sure how the situation will develop. The UK government has put the whole country into…

The Coronavirus pandemic has thrown the entire world into confusion. Here at the Priddy Folk Festival we are paying close attention to information from the UK government and from the NHS. It is hard to predict how the virus will spread over the coming months, but you will be aware that major festivals, including Glastonbury,…

We are absolutely honoured that Jamie Smith’s MABON have decided to play one of their last shows at Priddy in 2020! We have received this communication from John Eeles, their Managing Agent explaining why they have decided to play one of their last shows at our festival. We wish them every success and happiness in…

We are very excited to be able to introduce you to these fantastic acts who will be appearing at our festival in 2020!  We think we have booked a wide range of music and artists from all over the world and are absolutely delighted to be able to introduce some new, upcoming acts as well…