Announcing our 2018 Line Up

This year's festival features top notch folk and world music, some of the region's top young performers and a bit of an Oriental dance theme. Watch this space for updates ...

Johnny Coppin

​​Jack Russell, the ex-England wicket-keeper, is a big fan and used to lead his team singing Johnny's rousing Gloucestershire songs!  
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Rock of Eye

Three of the most inventive instrumentalists in the UK, Rock of Eye bring European folk music to life in a way that is both new and familiar.
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Rebecca Hollweg

Listening to Rebecca playing live, one audience member described her music as 'being enfolded in a warm embrace'. 
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The Bingcows

A journey from medieval European dances through Appalachian traditions to the Balkans, from the music of the Irish harp to hot-club swing
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Fantasy Orchestra

Bristol's zaniest community orchestra and choir.  Think psychedelic loveliness, rousing choral noise, and some choice costumes !
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Finn Hagan

Meet Finn, the wonderful sounds of the Scottish Highlands and the Star Wars theme as you've never heard it before.
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Wina Lewis

From the passion of East Java to western contemporary dance,
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Some of the South West's best young musicians

At the Rockhampton Folk Festival we like to give some of the region's best young musicians a platform to perform.  They may be young, but boy, are they good !
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The Wriggle Jigglers

Young folk doesn't come much better than this.  Meet the winners of the Southdown Folk Festival in 2017
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Coombeshead Taiko

Loud, energetic, joyful, rhythmic and fun. Their infectious enthusiasm will stop you in your tracks.
​Its going to be Taiko-tastic!
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