Priddy Folk Festival headliners announced

PLANS are well advanced for this year’s Priddy Folk Festival –the 30th festival to be held – from Friday, July 7th to Sunday, July 9th.

It promises a great line-up covering a wide range of folk genres from the traditional to the more avant-garde (taking in shanties, bluegrass and klezmer on the way).

Headliners this year are The Jeremiahs and Dervish from Ireland, Fara and Kris Drever from Orkney and Tim Edey. Other top bands include The Rin Tins, Mishra, Bonfire Radicals, Opa Rosa, The Often Herd, Amadou Diagne, Honey and the Bear, Tarren and home-grown favourites The Drystones. Add in many more exciting bands, shanty groups, the Free Fringe, Children and Dance Festivals and it is definitely a weekend to put in your diaries now.

The festival is a not-for-profit event run by volunteers with surpluses ploughed back into the local community and environs and into promoting folk music and the arts. Last year’s event provided funds for music tuition in the village primary school and folk workshops for Blue School pupils to hone their skills for this year.

For details, visit: www.priddyfolk.org