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Sesh Fest: the festival where everyone gets to perform

This Easter weekend (29th-31st March) will see Sheffield’s pubs filled with the sounds of traditional folk tunes and songs as Sheffield Sessions Festival returns to the city. It’s the first festival since 2019 (for obvious reasons), so what can you expect from a festival where the acts are also the attendees?

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A mini-guide to Folk Weekend Oxford

Are you heading to Folk Weekend Oxford this year? If not, we intend to make you very jealous and think about your choices carefully.

A Morris dancer's feet dance near a pint and pewter tankard of ale

Morris Dancing News

The UK’s longest-running folk festival?

The Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival returns to Sheffield for the 10th time this weekend (Feb 25th-27th), for what the organisers says is the UK's longest-running folk festival.

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