Priddy Folk Festival

07/08/2025

06/08/2025

Anyone thinking about people to nominate??

Congratulations to Alex Merry on receiving an EFDSS Gold Badge!

Alex is an illustrator, portrait painter and folk artist. Her work spans from intricately painted pet portraits to large scale folk beasts and ritual masks. As a founding member of Boss Morris, she breathes new life into ancient customs through performance, craft and reinvention – conjuring a dream-like world rooted in folk tradition.

Gold Badges are presented for unique or outstanding contributions to folk music, dance or song and/or exceptional contributions to the Society’s work.

Anyone can make a nomination, which should be seconded by one other person. The deadline for nominations for 2026 is 31 March 2026.
https://bit.ly/4l9oIe1

Photo: Sophie Davidson

05/08/2025

It’s just over three weeks since our fabulous 2025 Priddy Folk Festival - and if your memories are fading of what the weather was like and what you got up to …. here are a few more photos from the wonderful to jog your memory…

In addition Jem Smith from GWS Radio has produced a lovely record of the event, covering performances and interviews with performers, the audience and the behind the scenes people at the Festival who make it all happen.

There’s a link here which we thoroughly recommend!!

https://www.mixcloud.com/Jem_WorldBeat/gws-radio-priddy-folk-festival-highlights-show-2025/

31/07/2025

31/07/2025

Hell Yeah!

29/07/2025

IT AIN'T JUST MUSIC & CIDER!!!

At Outcider Festival this there will be all sorts of weird and wonderful things going on throughout the weekend 🤪

This afternoon we'll be posting up information about a few of them!

Keep 'em peeled 👀

29/07/2025

Just down the road from Priddy is the Outcider Fest. Located on a regenerative farm it offers live music over the weekend!

29/07/2025

Thanks to Jem from GWS for a wonderful overview of this year’s Festival with interviews and features on the organisers, audience and performers. Have a listen on line at https://embedded.autopod.xyz/episodes/show/4214
Coverage of the Folk Festival starts 12 minutes in!

20/07/2025

It’s hard to believe that it’s only a week since the road melted and the Village was filled with music and happy laughing, singing and dancing people!

Here’s a few more photos from the Festival, taken by our fantastic official photographers, Focus on Photography.

Have a look through and see if you can spot yourself!

More coming soon and we’ll let you know when we’ve uploaded a selection to the 2025 section of the website!

There’s still time to fill in our online survey so you can let us know what you liked, what we should do next year and, maybe, what we shouldn’t do again…

Survey link in biog ⬆️⬆️⬆️ above,

Or use the https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PriddyFF2025

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17/07/2025