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Priddy 2018 is shaping up in style with the announcement of a raft of amazing acts for this year’s festival. We have already announced Young ‘Uns, the Sam Kelly Trio, Tannara, Dipper Malkin and the Vera Van Heeringen Trio – click on the links to find out more. Leading the line for 2018 is Galician pipe…

We have two more exciting names to add to our roster for 2018 which we are sure you are going to love. John Dipper and Dave Malkin are Dipper Malkin – a duo making exquisite music drawing on traditional folk and original tunes. Dave plays guitar and provides a haunting vocal while John plays viola…

We at Priddy Folk Festival are pleased to announce our first acts for 2018. Sam Kelly Sam Kelly is one of the hottest names in English folk at moment and we are absolutely delighted to have signed him up for Priddy 2018. As a boy, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning Bristol-based singer, songwriter…

Here’s a brief outline of how the 2017 Priddy Folk Festival shapes up. Once again we have two main marquees – Swildons and Eastwater – plus events in the Village Hall and Priddy Church, the Market Square and of course The Fringe Tent. In Swildons, headliners are Medicine Creek (Friday), Flook (Saturday) and Jamie Smith’s…

Proof indeed that the Romans have got nothing on us, we have been busy getting ready for Priddy Folk Festival with a brand new piece of infrastructure. Without wanting to ‘big it up’ too much, a dedicated team from Priddy FF have just finished laying extra stone on the main track at the campsite. It…

We have noticed that a number of those who applied to steward at this year’s Priddy Folk Festival have not replied to our emails which detail their steward duties and the information pack. These were sent out in the last couple of weeks. If you have not received both of these emails, pleasecould you check your email…

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Priddy Folk Festival in just a few short weeks. We have no reason to expect a repeat here of the terrible events recently in London and Manchester. However we want people to enjoy Priddy feeling as safe and secure as possible. We continually review our policies so…

The flutes of Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen, the guitar of Ed Boyd and the bodhran of John Joe Kelly make up Flook, stars of Irish traditional music and one of the world’s most exciting folk bands. Priddy Folk Festival caught up with the band while at the Orkney Folk Festival last monthe, ahead of their…

Ahead of Mawkin’s much anticipated-appearance at Priddy 2017 we caught up with guitarist Dave Delarre and asked him a few pertinent questions… PFF: Tell us about how the band started out… DD: Me and (brother) James (Delarre) have been playing folk music for years while being dragged around pubs by our morris dancing parents! While…

The programme for the Priddy Folk Festival Fringe has been announced – and the programme features some of the best musicians from around the region. Hosted by Nicki Davey and Johnny Francis, the Fringe tent runs from 2pm to 4.30p on the festival Saturday and 1.30pm to 3.30pm on the Sunday. Among the highlights on…

We have another great programme planned for this years Children’s Festival at Priddy with plenty to keep the younger generation active and enjoying the fun. We have the fantastic Landing Mane back to do some West African drum and dance workshops as well as some of our regular popular workshops including Hop, Skip and Sing…

This year at Priddy, we are proud to welcome one of the most widely respected and finest fiddlers and singers on the British folk scene, Tom McConville. Born on Tyneside, Tom grew up in a pub with clientele from Irish and Scottish communities and thus the joys of Celtic folk was instilled in him from an…