After the success of last year’s event, it would be foolish not to repeat. Thanks to the generosity of landlord Danny Pearce, we’ll be putting on live music from 1pm to 11.30pm on Easter Sunday (April 4th) at the Railway, Burnham-On-Sea, on the corner of College St and the High St. Buy a wristband for just £5 and you can come and go all day. Excellent acts will be performing, including fest favourites Bag Of Rats, acid folk rockers McDowell, and Rosie Eade, one of the finest new voices on the acoustic scene. Don’t miss out!

Here’s the schedule:
1pm-1.45pm: David Chave
2pm-3pm: Bag Of Rats
3.15pm-4pm: The Tri-Sexual Winkers
4.15pm-5.15pm: Vermin
5.30pm-6.15pm: Tim Fardon & Rowan Ensoll
6.15pm-6.45pm: Nick Elswood & Friends
6.45pm-7.15pm: TBC
7.30pm-8.30pm: Rosie Eade with Davey Malone
8.45pm-9.45pm: Gangreen
10pm-11.30pm: McDowell

Yes, after an all-too-short break, we are now back and booking in earnest for this year’s fest. You’ll be glad to hear the fest’s going to be extended, now lasting from Thursday to Sunday. We’re waiting on confirmation from some very special guests, so watch this space. In the meantime, check out the very wonderful acts we’ve already booked. Looking good!

Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs
London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra
Run
Hedgepig
Pyrates!
Bag Of Rats
Stompin’ Dave Allen
Rosie Eade
Three Sheets T’Wind
Phil King
The Ceili
McDowell
The Occupants Of The Hedge
A Parcel Of Rogues
The Sea Kings
Elliot Hall
Mississippi MacDonald
Mireille Mathlener
The Ely Plains
Eddy Johns
Boxcar Aldous Huxley
Hattie Hatstar
Dub Liberators
Pink Froot
Cole Stacey
Lobby Lud
Davey Malone
Broken Road
Sloe Jam
Stanton Delaplane
Richard Craine
Richie Keedwell
Andrew’s Sister
Steve Brown

The Folkfest 2010 Traders Application Form can be downloaded from here now. You can now complete this online via the forms feature in Adobe Reader or Acrobat, and email it straight back to us, however, no booking will be complete without the receipt by us of your cheque for £50 for the whole weekend.
PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE NO PLACES FOR FOOD AND DRINK TRADERS.

DOWNLOAD THE 2010 Traders Application Form

On Friday, December 18th, FolkFest favourites Three Sheets T’Wind will perform at an aftershow party following the Pogues gig at Brixton Academy. The party will take place at Brixton Jamm, about three minutes walk from the Academy, and will feature a performance by Shane MacGowan himself. The fun will last from 10pm till 6am. Tickets are available from http://www.brixtonjamm.org at £8 (£10 on the door). FolkFest fans, though, can get them cheaper by contacting Three Sheets T’Wind directly at http://www.myspace.com/sheetstothewind. Just send them a message telling them you love them and have seen them at our fest, and they’ll sort you out with tickets.

Thank you to the many emailers, phonecallers and passers-by who have congratulated us on the best Folkfest ever. We are feeling a little jaded this morning (Mon. 7th Sept.) yet still buzzing from the adrenalin that fuelled the committee through what is an incredibly demanding schedule of events crammed into one weekend. The weather was extremely kind to us enabling a stunning finale to take place at the Folk in the Park event on Sunday. It was great to see people still dancing down the road as they left the event with the jigs and reels of the Dambuskers still ringing in their heads.
Everyone has their own special memories of the Fest, but the magic of the Burnham-on-Sea Folkfest is that no one person can see every act on the Saturday (with 63 musical acts and four dance sides, taking part in seven venues on one day). I’m sure the discussions will go on for weeks as to who you enjoyed the most and who you wished you had seen, so come back next year and see if you cram in even more fun than you had this year, which is always a challenge. We look forward to supplying that challenge to you yet again on Friday 3rd Sept. to Sunday 5th Sept. 2010 for the FIFTH ANNUAL FREE BURNHAM-ON-SEA’s FOLKFEST. We hope to see you then.

First pictures and report from the fabulous BURNHAM-ON-SEA.COM

More pictures from Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News

Also a big thanks to Stephen Westwood from South Wales who has produced another 175 pictures of the 2009 Folkfest for your enjoyment. Please check out this link as he also has hundreds of pictures from the previous 2006, 2007 and 2008 Folkfests.

Click here for more photos courtesy of Bruce Hudson.

Professional Images of the performong artistes playing at Folkfest are available here. Web resolution images can be purchased from CP-Images for £2 each. Click here to view.

Click here for more photos courtesy of Derek Caines, interesting group of pictures taken from 8.00am to 8.00pm showing how we transform the Manor gardens from a picturesque Victorian Park into a minor festival location in a few hours.

Download a list of who was who at Folkfest 2009

Download a 2009 Folkfest Who’s who

Download the 2009 Schedule for your nostalgia file

Download a 2009 Schedule

LINKS TO ACTS WHO APPEARED IN 2009 ARE SHOWN BELOW

To help us promote the Fourth Free Annual Burnham-on-Sea Folkfest, download a poster and stick it up in a prominent (and legal) place. By all means, send us a photo of yourselves with the poster and where you have displayed it, and we may just put your photo up on the site …. I could see this turning into a competition!

Download a 2009 Folkfest poster

ACTS APPEARING THIS YEAR ARE SHOWN BELOW

The Line-up for 2009 is shown below, with links to their own websites or myspace pages. Great thanks to Dom who has worked really hard to provide you with an even more amazing line-up than previous years.

• The Dambuskers
• Spikedrivers
• Mad Dog McRea
• Bag Of Rats
• Julian Gaskell & His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
• Jankie Fardal
• The Roots Union
• Three Sheets T’Wind
• Surfin’ Turnips
• Polly & The Billets Doux
• Stompin’ Dave Allen
• The FOS Brothers
• Gangreen
• Steve Turner
• The Ceili
• Rosie Eade
• Phil King
• Inu
• The Cherry Pickers
• Insomniac Jack
• Ceilidh-Jo
• Susie Ro & Ayla
• Harry & The Hecklers
• Elliot Hall
• Coracle
• Mississippi MacDonald
• Jonny Kearney
• The Appletree Boys
• Mireille Mathlener
• Matt Woosey & The Strange Rain
• Kerry Devine
• Marie-Claire
• The Ely Plains
• Becky Syson
• Pitchpole Jack
• Wilcox & Brooks
• Nicky Swann
• y’Strel’s Band
• Drew Crow Star
• Wyrd Guy
• Clare Farrar Chapman & Co
• McDowell
• Broken Road
• Pete Taylor
• Barry Walsh
• Krazy Roscoe
• Mark Darkside
• My Name Is Ian
• Crow Crag
• Scattered Few
• Mervin
• Sandals & Socks (AKA The Ginger Hitlas)
  
• Woody
• Tim Dean & Paul Stradling
• David A Gilmour
• Pete Beach
• David Chave
• Steve Brown
• Bruce Hudson
• Sally Pritchard & Kathy King
• Tim Fardon
• Richard Keedwell
• Nick & Chris Elswood
• Rob Carey
• Jason Grey
• Debbie Beckett
• Dave Gibbon
• Neil Biddiscombe

The Committee and friends have been out again on your behalf to try and raise some much need funds for this year’s Folkfest. Here are some pictures from Caroline covering our recent annual Musical Pub Crawl

Check out the pictures by clicking here.