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
Just a note to remind you that if you are going to Priddy Folk Festival (16 miles from Burnham-on-Sea on top of the Mendip Hills, above Cheddar), tickets are now available at the same prices as last year.
Discounts are available if you apply before June 1st. This is a local festival close to our hearts, and is a great weekend away.
You can also help to advertise this event by downloading a poster (just click the poster image above) and putting it up in a prominent public or work place.
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
The Line-up is now complete for 2009 and this year’s impressive list of over 65 acts 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 2009 Fourth Annual Free Folkfest in Burnham-on-Sea will take place from Friday 4th September to Sunday 6th September 2009. If you are interested in taking part as a trader or helper then register your interest now by emailing your details to us, via the CONTACT link above.
We still have places left for the Craft/Traders Fair, so download the form now if you would like to take part. There are NO places available for FOOD and DRINK OUTLETS.
Words escape me at the moment, though the haze of this Monday morning after the Folkfest, to describe the feeling of elation and relief of pulling off another amazing weekend of quality FREE music in Burnham-on-Sea. The whole committee and a band of energetic helpers deserve your thanks for producing a spectacular event, and we would like to thank all the bands, acts, dancers, street entertainers and festival participants for making it all so enjoyable. We will try and get a photo gallery up on the site as quickly as possible, and if you have some good pictures then please email them to us. The fantastic burnham-on-sea.com website have some photos and even a video on their website so check these out for starters
Nice one Steve, and thanks for your continued support
If you have any comments about the weekend, then please enter them below, we would love to hear from you
Details of the acts and where they performed over the Weekend are available for download, by clicking the link below.
Download the Schedule and get a list of acts performing and their venues
The FOLKFEST WHO’S WHO 2008 can be downloaded by clicking the link below.
Download the Who’s Who and get more details of the acts performing and their venues
The 2008 FOLKFEST will be taking place from Friday 29th August to Sunday 31st August 2008.
All the acts are booked and final preparations are underway for the last weekend in August. We have kept all the things that were good in 2007 and improved many areas for this Folkfest.
We have improved on the workshop areas available on Saturday afternoon upstairs at the Baptist Church Hall above the Folkfest Office.
WORKSHOPS
Led by David Newey, singer-songwriter and member of Rubus
We have improved the Family/Kids entertainment and moved this more centrally to the Baptist Church Hall behind the Dance Stage.
KIDZONE
12.00 – 16.30
at the Baptist Church Back Hall
( behind the Folkfest Office)
Juggles the Clown
1.00pm: Juggling
2.00pm Sing-a-long
3.00pm: Magic Show
Also: hair braiding, face-painting, balloon modelling, mask making, refreshments, baby-changing area and much, much more
Moving the Traders Fair to the centre of the Town on the Saturday was a major improvement in 2007 and we have extended the hours of the Fair, provided more Street Entertainment, and hopefully create an even bigger “buzz” in the Town Centre.
We have also extended the hours of the Open Mic/Sessions Venue (2pm -11pm) at the Royal Clarence Hotel along the seafront, which was very popular last year and looks like being even more so this year.
Over 60 Acts Confirmed for 2008 are as follows:
(Click the Name of the Artist for more information and a taste of their music)
Bag of Rats
Eddie Martin
Phil King
Sheelanagig
Zoox
Ember
The Groanbox Boys
Forcenra!
Christi Andropolis
Ron Trueman Border
Dave Sutherland
Three Sheets T’Wind
The FOS Brothers
Bryher
Dragonsfly
The Dambuskers
The Clap
DMP
The Ceili
Jerichova
Pete Stearn & Kate Riaz
Tex Braithwaite & The Biryani Brothers
Kiss The Mistress
Gangreen
Jankie Fardal
Norcsalordie
y’Strel’s Band
The Boys From Melbourne Street
Nimming Ned
Laura Hewison
Tinkerscuss
Monotone
Wilcox & Brooks
Matt Woosey & The Strange Rain
Wyrd Guy
Diana Johnstone
Late Licence
The Appletree Boys
Pink Froot
Bob Smith
Robin Gray
Venezuela
Alex Lipinski
Mervin
Ginger Whingers
Cruel Folk
Strung Out
Matt Wescost
Broken Road
Nick Elswood
Steve Brown
Pete Beach & Greg Aylmer
Tim Dean & Paul Stradling
Sally Pritchard & Kathy King
Jason Grey and Nas Adal
Dave “Busker” Harris
Rob Carey.
Gary French
Neil Biddiscombe
Tracy Neil Elliss-Brookes
Morgan
Rockin’ Replay
Beetlecrushers Clog
Tiger Feet Appalachian Clog
Grupo Fuego Flamenco
Chalice Morrismen
Pigsty Morris
A GREAT WEEKEND WITH OVER 100 HOURS OF
FREE LIVE MUSIC AND DANCE
The 2008 Folkfest is from Friday 29th August to Sunday 31st August, so hopefully you are making plans to visit Burnham-on-Sea for the weekend to join in the fun.
Tickets are now available for the Opening Concert with the amazing DRAGONSFLY on the Friday Evening at the Ritz Social Club, from GC Music (01278 794434) at only £6. This is the only ticket event for the whole weekend, everything else is FREE.
On Saturday, we have SEVEN Pub/Club Venues, with live, free Folkfest music in each venue from mid-day until 11.00pm, plus an EIGHTH Pub providing an OPEN Mic and Sessions from 2pm - 9pm (that’s over 90 hours of live music for FREE in ONE DAY), plus Clog and Morris Dancing, a Craft Fair in the middle of the Town, Childrens Entertainment, Workshops and other activities.
On Sunday, the famous “Folk in the Park” event at Manor Gardens, with six hours of FREE music and performance including the fabulous Sheelanagig, Ember, Bag of Rats, Phil King, Ron Trueman-Border, Tiger Feet Appalachian Dance Side from Cardiff, BeetleCrushers Clog and our own local Morris Side - The Chalice Morris Men in the lovely surroundings of a Victorian Park Garden. Plus Bar, refreshments, Craft Fair, Kids Entertainment.
(picture of Maya from Dragonsfly, performing in the Park on Sunday)
It’s Monday morning and we are still buzzing after what was the best ever Folkfest in Burnham-on-Sea. A great start on Friday night with Black Friday at the Ritz, an incredible turnout on Saturday throughout the Town to see over 65 acts sing and play their hearts out to a large and appreciative crowd, and a record breaking Sunday event in Manor gardens to finish the weekend off. Thank you to all those people who performed and took part, and massive thanks to the organising committee who didn’t miss a beat on the plan, making it a well run festival. We didn’t see a face without a smile on it all weekend. If you don’t believe us, then check out the pictures on the link below, provided courtesy of Burnham-on-Sea.com (great job guys!), which provides a pictorial diary of the whole event, and the comments below. Please feel free to let us know what you thought of the whole event.
Click here for pictures on Burnham-on-Sea.com
More Pictures courtesy of Stephen Westwood who travelled from Cwmbran, Wales 174 pictures
Even more pictures from one of our Committee members Caroline, including Friday night
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