You can find details of our artists on the Music 2025 page.

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The Festival isn't just about concerts, it's also about Community involvement and fun. We will have a wonderful Schools concert , street theatre, lots of dancing and performances by local groups. The Parish and the Methodist Churches are important venues who, kindly, host events and activities.

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Other parts of Holmfirth festival of Folk are our fringes. We have our Family Fringe of street theatre, family friendly events and activities, including; Crafty Devlz Circus Skills, Madame Zuccini and her vegetables, Face Painting, Maypole dancing, the Legacy Steel Band, Musica Kirklees Showcase, Huddersfield Choral Society, Highly Strung, Vocal Expressions, Ship to Shore, Bradshaw Mummers, the Family Ceilidh and, of course, our Musical Fringe where town centre venues such as The Nook, O'Briens Bottle Shop, Taphouse, The Elephant and Castle, The PostCard, The Old Bridge, Ten-14 and Holme Coffee House host artistes.

 

Fingers crossed that we have our Fringe artist line-up finalised ! Expect to see; Acoustibots, Al's Django party, Alastair Gordon, Blind Pig Gang, Common Culture, Eve Jone, Fee Fye Fo, FIshing for Compliments, Jig for a kiss, Katie O'Malley, Kingfisher Blue, Kitchen Blues Club, Leo Brazil, Mark Truelove, Ollersett, Olta, Reban and the Bridge, Rocks and Reels, Ship to shore, Soli Vive, The Savages and The Staffies.

Once again, we demonstrate that "Folk" is a broad church to be enjoyed by everyone. You will be able to listen to gypsy jass, blues, rockabilly, acappella, indie, country, english folk, irish folk, punk folk - you name it and it's very likely covered.

Best not to try to compartmentalise

Best just to enjoy !!

 

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Holmfirth Festival of Folk offers a wide variety of workshops and opportunities to get involved for children and adults alike. Come and try your hand at something new or get the opportunity to develop skills you already have. Join in with everything from ukuleles to morris dancing or come and join in one of our folk clubs and have a sing around. Find out some of the ways you can get involved.  check out the "Spoken Word" event in Sids Cafe on Saturday (early) evening.

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