The Sidmouth Folk Festival

13/06/2026

A big Sidmouth welcome to Truly Crumptious! Serving homemade organic crumpets - choose from either savoury, breakfast or sweet menus. Plus a range of hot drinks. Delicious!

12/06/2026

Last call for tickets for the fabulous kicking our Pre-Festival specials off on Thursday 30th July, 8pm. Once they've gone they've gone! https://tickets.sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/events/sidmouthfolkweekproductionsltd/1981502

10/06/2026

🪗 Where?
Sessions Venues include The Royal York & Faulkner, The Anchor, The Bedford, Woodlands, Betsy’s at the Bulverton, Esplanade Shelters and even the Festival Bus.

🪗 Who is leading?
Look out for the programme in July for full details of the programmed sessions .

🪗How much?
Sessions are included in All-in-One, Week, Weekend and Day Tickets. A large number of the sessions are free entry, with donations encouraged.

For full details head the Get Involved section of our website.

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10/06/2026

As part of Greensleeves Morris Men celebrating their centenary year they will be dancing as usual outside the lifeboat station at 10.30 am on both Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd August followed by a music session in The Swan afterwards.
https://greensleevesmorris.org.uk

09/06/2026

Classic Folk with Mike Norris Classic Folk is unique. It mines a rich seam of wonderful folk and roots music and song from around 75 years of recordings. From the great source singers to the legends of folk rock, the travellers to the

07/06/2026

If Mac n Cheese is your thing then we've got you covered this summer as Mac Daddies will be joining us during Folk Week! There are some seriously tasty slow cooked meat toppings plus some delicious vegetarian and vegan options included in the menu. Roll on August!

06/06/2026

A big Sidmouth welcome to The Lids-Catering & Co serving unique homemade pies and lifting the lid on some amazing flavours this summer at Sidmouth Folk Festival!

05/06/2026

This Sunday! Please get involved if you can x

SIDMOUTH… let’s give our town and beach some love!!!

Join us for the INAUGURAL COMMUNITY ACTION DAY
Sunday 7th June

Beach Clean @ 10am
equipment provided

Town Clean @ 10:30am
(bring your own tools!)

Followed by a BRING YOUR OWN PICNIC from 11:30am
(No single use plastics please)
Weather and Tide Dependent - Meet in the Swimming Pool Car Park

Want to get involved or have a question? Contact one of the organisations involved.

05/06/2026

Excited to welcome some new caterers to the festival this summer including Little Marrakesh who will be serving some delicious Moroccan wraps and tagine pots. Yum!

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03/06/2026

There’s plenty of room for new faces and ideas at Sidmouth Folk Festival 😊
For full information please head to the FAQs page of our website and scroll down to the section ‘Getting Involved’.



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