Festival is ideal for all good Folk
ORGANISERS PLAN FANTASTIC EVENT OF MUSIC, DANCE AND REVELRY
THE 43rd Warwick Folk Festival returns to Castle Park this summer, featuring more than 80 artists.
The family-friendly festival brings the local community together for a celebration of folk history, dance, and general revelry from Thursday, July 27 to Sunday, July 30.
Headline acts include This Is The Kit, Manran, Chris Wood, Michael Mcgoldrick and Family, O’hooley and Tidow, Festival Patron Will Pound and Tim Edney, Benji Kirkpatrick and The Excess and Dominie Hooper.
Last year the Folk Festival moved to its new location, next to Warwick Castle, which meant all venues and camping were on one site.
This year organisers have improved the lay-out to reduce noise between venues and ensure crafters and traders are more central. Those with limited mobility will also benefit from new electric buggies to travel around the site and organisers have increased availability of hot drink stalls.
Festival Director Dick Dixon said: “The Warwick Folk Festival is renowned for being a friendly, relaxed, and chilled-out event and the location is stunning with views across the River Avon. We look forward to laying on another fantastic weekend of superb music, camping, workshops, singing, dancing, sessions, and giggles at what is one of the friendliest and established folk festivals.”
The food court will offer food from all over the world such as breakfasts, snacks, fish and chips, and full evening
meals. There will be two bars serving ales, beers, ciders, wines, cocktails, and non-alcoholic options. Visitors can also enjoy a full programme of concerts, sing-arounds, dance, intimate acoustic performances, or full-on gigs. The craft fair will be even more varied featuring new traders.
In the town centre there will be colourful dance displays, pub music sessions and open-air concerts.
Younger visitors can also enjoy festival favourites ‘Panic Circus,’ ‘Shooting Roots,’ ‘Wyld Thyngz,’ ‘Suitcase Circus,’ ‘The Crafty Catts,’ ‘Baby Bops & Toddle Bops’ and ‘Wolly The Clown.’
A free and scheduled shuttle bus will be laid on to take visitors from the site into the town.
Weekend ticket prices start from £127. Visitors can choose from Friday – Sunday tickets, Thursday – Sunday tickets or just visit for the day, plus under 14s go free. New for this year is a 25 per cent discount off a young person’s ticket, aged 18 to 24.
For more information and to book tickets, visit www.warwickfolkfestival. co.uk.