SHEELANAGIG joins the line-up for Sunday’s danceable late night extra!
Sheelanagig's special brand of music-making, which they quite legitimately dub "acoustic world-folk mayhem", incorporates and fuses a number of ethnic styles, most noticeably gypsy jazz, Celtic folk, East European dance tunes and North African - with more than a dash...
NEWSLETTER – June 2011 (extract)
Day tickets will go on sale from 1 July. More Late Night Extras in the Long Barn! Audience at both of the festivals tell us that the danceable 'late night extra' in the Long Barn has been a popular feature of Purbeck Folk Festival. More Late Night Extras in the Long...
YOUNG PURBECK FESTIVAL STARS on BBC2 in ‘Goldies Band: By Royal Appointment’
On Saturday night at 9pm BBC2's series of three programmes 'Goldies Band: By Royal Appointment' features a group of musicians (aged between 16 and 24) two of whom play Purbeck Folk Festival in 2011. - Bournemouth-based songwriter, Lester Allen, who was nominated by...
2010 first headliners announced
20 December: first headliners announced: PO'GIRL !! - the festival is listed in The Independent today as one of "TEN BEST GIGS": "PURBECK FOLK FESTIVAL - One of Dorset's spectacular stretches of Jurassic coast is the host for this gem of a festival, with Megson,...