Stainsby Festival

Stainsby Festival Long running Folk and world music festival.
17-19 July 2026 near Heath, Derbyshire. A well-established, intimate, family friendly event in a rural setting.

Entirely Volunteer Run. Three music venues. Local real ales. Crafts, Kids ents, Healing Area. Stainsby Festival is registered charity and a not-for-profit event run entirely by unpaid volunteers, not some faceless corporate. Stainsby is all about live music and performance: hearing, playing, writing, performing, learning. All proceeds go back into the event. Next festival. 18 to 20 July 2025. Stai

nsby has everything: great folk and world music in traditional marquees, crafts stalls, childrens entertainment, music workshops of every kind, a singers competition, storytelling, theatre, poetry, film, philosophy and walkabout events throughout the weekend with camping thrown in. And to cap it all there's a real ale bar featuring locally sourced beers from microbreweries around Derbyshire.You can chill out by day with superb views across Stainsby Pond to Hardwick Hall. You can live it up by night when the festival runs firelight sessions late into the night.

There’s definitely a case of the Stainsby blues going around… 💚The Rogue Embers, we know the feeling!
08/08/2026

There’s definitely a case of the Stainsby blues going around… 💚
The Rogue Embers, we know the feeling!

This is probably my last post this year but contains all the people and sentiments which make Stainsby so special..... A...
02/08/2026

This is probably my last post this year but contains all the people and sentiments which make Stainsby so special..... A challenge, please try and give each photo a title, something that shows the story the picture holds.

Some more from Saturday evening - hopefully the final instalment tomorrow.
01/08/2026

Some more from Saturday evening - hopefully the final instalment tomorrow.

Opening ceremony and a few from Saturday
29/07/2026

Opening ceremony and a few from Saturday

A look back at Friday, with photographs by Andrew Murley.
27/07/2026

A look back at Friday, with photographs by Andrew Murley.

26/07/2026

The Last Job

That’s it… the field is quiet, everything is packed away, and another Stainsby has officially been put to bed.

A huge thank you to our incredible crew, who have spent the week packing everything away. Many of the same volunteers who arrived days before everyone else to help build the festival have now been among the last to leave, making sure everything is safely stored away until next year.

We’re also so grateful to everyone who left the campsite and festival field so clean and tidy. It made the final job that little bit easier, and it certainly didn’t go unnoticed.

The festival is packed away. We’ve put the cat out.

Another turn of the wheel.

Until next time… 💚

Stainsby SingingA festival is not built from stages or speakers. It is built from thousands of small moments of shared h...
22/07/2026

Stainsby Singing

A festival is not built from stages or speakers. It is built from thousands of small moments of shared humanity. The music simply gives those moments a rhythm.

The first chapter of W***y Lane’s Stainsby Festival 2026 story celebrates the voices that bring the festival to life. Whether on stage or in the audience, every song adds another thread to the tapestry of the weekend.

Full album can be found in the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1M4CP3mMr4/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Brunts Fields, Hawking Lane, Stainsby
Chesterfield
S445RN

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