purbeck folk festival

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival have sadly announced that they are cancelling this year’s festival. Please support their Crowdfunding Campaign to help cover their loses.

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival reveal first names including Drever McCusker Woomble, Elephant Sessions, The Magpie Arc, The Demon Barbers XL, The Breath, Jackie Oates & John Spiers, Monster Ceilidh Band, Salt House, Topette!! and more

Check out our top picks for this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival including John Smith, Cara Dillon, Crooked Weather, Mama’s Broke, Marry Waterson and Emily Baker, Flook, Karine Polwart, Afro Celts, Bird in the Belly, PicaPica and more.

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival put on another great festival this year with great performances from Siobhan Miller Band, Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys, Trad.Attack!, Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds, Jez Hellard and the Djukella Orchestra, Jenn & Laura-Beth and more.

This year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (16-19th August 2018) is looking to be one of their best lineups yet. Beth Orton is the latest headliner announced who will be performing alongside the likes of Richard Thompson, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Elephant Sessions, Trad Attack! and many more. Watch our video preview.

Bursting at the seams with headline acts and family fun galore, the Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (24-27 August), is set to be the highlight of the summer. Check our video preview.

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival have unveiled the first names for 2017 including Badly Drawn Boy, Lady Maisery, Martha Tilston, Blue Rose Code, This is the Kit, Curtis Eller’s American Circus & many more.

Set in the beautiful scenery of the Purbeck Hills, Purbeck Valley Folk Festival pulled off another great year with a superb line-up including Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band, Rory McLeod, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, Villagers, Boo Hewerdine and more.

We head off to Purbeck Valley Folk Festival tomorrow for another great Bank Holiday weekend. Highlights include Villagers, Eliza Carthy’s Wayward Band, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman and many more. Come and join us!

It’s back and there’s still time to enter! The Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (25-28 August) is celebrating the UK folk scene with its very own talent contest, Purbeck Rising.

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival announce more headliners including Maz O’Connor, Boo Hewerdine, The Proclaimers, Nizlopi, Sam Duckworth (Recreations) and more.

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival tickets are on sale for 2016. Don’t miss a great opportunity to be at one of the friendliest uk folk festivals about. There’s a reason we keep going back!

We caught up with the wonderful O’Hooley and Tidow at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival where they performed a couple of songs for us from their new album ‘Summat’s Brewin’. Watch it here.

We are heading off to Purbeck Valley Folk Festival one again (27-30 August 2015). They have a staggeringly great line-up this year from the well established to the up and coming. Check our preview here which gives a small flavour of some of what’s on offer.

The legendary bluegrass band Hot Rize are heading to this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival to join headliners which include Chris Difford, Justin Currie, Richard Thompson, Stornoway, Kathryn Tickell, Megson, Martha Tilston & the Scientists, Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin and The Moulettes. Watch their latest video for A Cowboy’s Life, performed live above New York City’s East River.

The lineup for this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival just keeps getting better but they have pulled out all stops this year with their latest announcement that Richard Thompson will headline their Friday night solo. A rare opportunity and a great start to this brilliant family friendly festival.

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival announces first acts of what promises to be one of the best folk festivals out there. Don’t miss it, we won’t! 27-30 August, near Swanage in Dorset.

This was a session we recorded at Purbeck Folk Festival in a field just after sundown. Tom McQ is a wonderful person and is a name I really hope we all hear a lot more of.