We’re really pleased that two more dance sides have confirmed for the festival.
Powder Kegs and the Lancashire Wallopers will be joining us throughout the weekend with dance displays and workshops.
Read more about them in the artists section.
We all know how fantastic the festival is, but we also realise that as an indoor event, it can be hard for people passing through the city to realise it is happening. Folk 3D did such a great job last year, and for the city’s St George’s Day event, that we’ve asked them to put together even more dance sides, and the popular Flash Mob Ceilidh once again. We’re also really pleased that there will be a Craft Market on the Market Place throughout the weekend, and we’re just starting work on a programme of free music for people on the Market Place to enjoy, and to help promote the festival… Phew!
We’re delighted that we’ve had confirmations from three dance sides so far – and all bringing excellent and very different dancing to Derby!
Returning after a fantastic weekend (they said that, honest!) a couple of years ago, are Ouse Washes Molly Dancers – look out for their charity shop chic and wonderful dances from the fens. Rushing in with a roar will be Newcastle Kingsmen Sword Dancers – they will be popping up with rapper dances over the weekend, and quite possibly visiting some of the local public houses… Rivington Morris bring the sound of precise clog-shod feet, in the form of North West Morris from Lancashire.
We’ll have a programme of dance displays through the city, as well as inside the venues over the weekend – and we’ll even persuade them to run some workshops!
Here we are with the first set of updates to the website, and the announcement of the majority of artists for the 2013 festival. We’re really excited about the line up, and looking forward to October already (though we’re not wishing away some summer sunshine!) We really hope you’re able to join us over the weekend, and if you’re looking for a great place to stay, our friends at Jurys Inn have put together another fantastic offer for you.
Hi all, and a massive thank you to everyone who came, saw, sang, played, danced, clapped or anything else that you did over the weekend! We had a fantastic time, and really hope you all did too – obviously we can’t do it without you… it’s your festival! We’re starting planning things for 2013 at the moment, so we’ll let you have news as it appears, but for now, get the dates in your diary – FRIDAY 4 – SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 2013. See you there!
We have a good few boxes of flyers to distribute, so if anyone is able to help out by taking anything from a handful to a box to a festival, club, pub etc your help would be very much appreciated. If yo think you can help, please send us an email, and we’ll work out getting some flyers to you 
Welcome to the brand new Derby Folk Festival website!
We all hope you enjoy having a look round, and finding out useful information on the artists, and the festival… keep in touch as we’ll be updating it whenever anything changes or we haeve news to add.
A huge thank you to Katy Coope for all the hard work into the site design, and all of the clever coding and “computer stuff”!
