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Be a Festival steward!
People often comment on how well-run the Priddy Folk Festival is, and our fantastic volunteer stewards are a key part of our success. Our teams of stewards work during the Festival in all the venues, the car park, the campsite and throughout the site, welcoming visitors and helping with setting up and taking down the…
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Announcing the headliners for Priddy Folk Festival 2025!
Following months of meticulous planning, we are now delighted to announce this year’s headliners! Our Programme Team have once again put together a really diverse and exciting range of folk music from across the world, mixing the traditional and the new with jazz influences, Eastern European influences, rap, Americana and even Argentine tango along the…
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Save the date!
Already missing the Priddy Festival? Now is the best time to put a new date in your calendar: the 2024 Festival will be on 12-14 July, 2024. We will again be offering an amazing programme filled with music, dance, workshops, fun and friendship. Listen to outstanding folk groups, watch – and learn – traditional dancing…
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Stay in touch!
What a great weekend we had! Now the stages, tents and marquees for this year’s Priddy Folk Festival have been dismantled – but we’re already thinking about next year’s event! Want to keep up to date on our plans for the Festival in 2024? Sign up for our email newsletter and get regular updates, including…
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How was it for you?
At the close of another great Priddy Folk Festival, we want to say a big thank you to all our performers, audiences and volunteers.
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Who is performing when?
The 2023 Priddy Folk Festival has a great lineup of home-grown and international musicians performing across four stages around the village. It’s going to be hard to choose! Here’s a quick day-by-day guide to what’s on when: Friday 7th July from 7pm: Eastwater Nick Hart Medicine Creek The Dillyboys Old Baby Mackerel Swildons Tim Edey…
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Check out our Fringe benefits!
The Priddy Fringe Festival is an opportunity to get to know bands and musicians from around Somerset and beyond. Our 2023 programme features a wonderful mix of traditional and new folk, Americana and RnB and Eastern European music – with a bit of country thrown in too. And what’s more, it’s free! Here’s a preview…
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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.