This year’s festival has ended and we are getting ready for next year,
which will be 10th - 12th September 2027
Tickets are already on sale
We will announce the line up at our celebration day in January
Scroll down for a small reminder of September’s Swanage Folk Festival.
you smashed it, brilliant
“The variety of music styles among the acts”
“Superb music all around the town, but it was the dancers that really caught my attention, specially Horizon – amazing”
“This year instead of the evening concerts my friend and I went to a good number of the fringe events. What talent lurks out there. Each event quite different and oh so enjoyable. We had a brilliant time.”
57 sets from 55 acts, on 11 stages
Top UK folk acts filling the main stage
The bands
Gerry Colvin Band, Merry Hell, The Longest Johns
Janice Burns & Jon Doran, Banter, Wareham Whalers, Murphy’s Lore Trio, Sian and Rob Colquhoun, Swamp Stomp String Band, Man the lifeboats, Ninebarrow, The Clementine Lovell Trio, Honey and the Bear, Dark Sheep, Wight Hot Pipes, Nick Parker, Reg Meuross, Polly Morris, Jez Lowe, Mandy Woods, AllSort’d, Purbeck Youth Tradfolk Collective
Steve Tattum’s English Music Session, Haze – Fire, Celtic Confusion, Tweed in Bourbon, The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show, Antoine (of Antoine & Owena), Boodle, Tim Lacey, Amy Hopwood, Kelp!, Sam Capper, Sophie Wright & Richard Wirdnam, A Fondness for Melancholy (Part 2), The Amy Hopwood Trio, Celtic Confusion, St. Fian, Stringfellas, State of Undress Acoustic Trio, The Bere Essentials, Rev. Green, Pergin, Valise Noir Storytelling Theatre, Allan Winter, Kitty Vernon’s Song Session, North ‘n’ South, Wareham Whalers, Allan Winter’s Song & Music Session, Doghouse Folkalypsomenco Duo, Goldefynche, Andrew James Band, Alongshore, Time & Tide Theatre – ‘Who’s Afear’d’, Greyhound’s Leap, Maiden Oak
64 dance sides
doing 339 dance displaysThe biggest Morris dancing display in the UK
Lots of fun at the Ceilidh
Experienced, new, young and old.
Adults and children alike loved the free children's entertainers
The team who put it together
Well those who weren't running other things at the time
Media Coverage
As reported in Swanage News
Czech and Slovak dancers at folk festival pay respect to Swanage hero
See you next year