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.
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
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 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
It is with sadness that I have to inform you that Doreen passed away peacefully on Friday 3rd July 2009 at 7.45pm, following a long struggle against cancer. As well as being a major part of the Ritz Social Club and Club Steward for many years, Doreen was a big supporter of both the Ritz Acoustic Club and member of the organising committee for the Folkfest.
We all have a great many fond and humurous memories of Doreen, who showed us all her true fun-loving side and her desire to get “stuck-in” on any task or job she was ever given.
We miss you dearly, sleep well.
Arrangements: Friday 17th July Weston Crematorium (family and invited close friends only) at 10.30am, Friends are then invited to a Memorial Service at St John’s Church, Highbridge (approx 11.30am), and afterwards at Moorland’s Social Club.
A Big THANK YOU to all those who were involved in a fantastic Easter Sunday Fundraiser. A Special Thanks to those acts who performed at no cost or a reduced cost, and all those who helped run the day. The packed audience enabled the Folkfest Committee to raise £1,262 on the day, every penny of which will go towards the costs of running this year’s Folkfest. Thanks also to the generosity of Danny Pearce (landlord of the Railway Inn), who provided the venue and funded several of the main acts, allowing us this great fundraising opportunity.
Acts who performed were: Bag of Rats, Three Sheets T’Wind, The FOS Brothers, Phil King, Harry & The Hecklers, Vermin, Tim Dean & Paul Stradling, David Chave, Nick & Chris Elswood, and Richard Keedwell
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