Purbeck Rising – round 2 – vote now

We had loads of entries, and it was a very hard decision, but we’ve managed to whittle it down to 10, and now it’s your turn…! The voting has started and it looks like our French entry Amelie McCandless is off to a flying start, but there’s...

Fancy dress theme…

We’ve decided on a Fancy Dress theme for this year. Last year was the first time we’ve had such an open theme (the letter P) and it worked really well. It was brilliant fun looking around and trying to work out who was dressed as what and how it related to...

Kathryn Tickell gets OBE

Great news! Kathryn Tickell has been recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list. And very well deserved too – she’s one of folk music’s great international ambassadors. A tremendously inspiring performer. We were wondering what happened if...

Day tickets on sale now!

Some have you have been waiting for this day… DAY TICKETS are now sale! Now we all know that it’s much better to come for the whole weekend, but some of you just can’t make it – mainly due to those inconsiderate few getting married on...

Just booked – HOT RIZE

We are more excited than you can even imagine to announce that Hot Rize will be completing the list of headliners at Purbeck this year. These guys are the absolute cream of bluegrass instrumentalists and singers; they’re just awesome. Between them they have won loads...

New Boutique camping tents

The guys at Katamaka got in touch and told us that they’d like to get involved at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival. As soon as we saw the photos of their tipi tents we were sold! They look absolutely gorgeous, with rugs, bunting and real foam beds (so you...