Bring on your favourite summer festival!
We hope you’re doing as well as can be expected in these testing times but our summer festival is an ever-increasing ray of light at the end of this dark period.
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2021 line-up
Here is the first major line-up announcement for Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2021. And we’re delighted to say we managed to secure the majority of our performers from the festival-that-never-was!
Festival lifeline grant from Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
Shrewsbury Folk Festival has been awarded £93,000 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced today.
Order your festival beer!
As anyone who has ever been to the festival knows, great real ale is a key component of our line up!
Save the date for Virtually Shrewsbury Folk Festival
The thought of an August Bank Holiday without our annual dose of SFF magic was unthinkable so we’ve created Virtually Shrewsbury Folk Festival to take place on Saturday and Sunday August 29 and 30.
Festival postponement
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we have decided to postpone this year’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival. It will now take place from August 27th – 30th, 2021. We know that many people will be disappointed – we are too. Our small team is hugely passionate about the festival and our summer just won’t […]
Covid-19 response
We are keeping a very close eye on how the landscape is changing in relation to the coronavirus. Advice is currently that it is likely to peak before the summer. At the moment, preparation is continuing as normal and we expect the festival to take place in August. We know it’s testing times for everyone […]
Best Midlands & Shropshire Music Festival
🎉🎉🎉 WE ARE THE BEST MIDLANDS MUSIC & BEST SHROPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL! 🎉🎉🎉 With all that is going on in the world at the moment, we were over the moon to get this good news – we picked up not one but two awards in the Shropshire What’s On Readers Awards for Best Midlands Music Festival and Best Shropshire […]
Judy Collins leads second wave of artists announced
We have revealed the second wave of artists on our 2020 line up – topped by non other than American folk legend, Judy Collins! Five time Grammy Award winning blues and Americana star Keb’ Mo’, Zimbabwean group Black Umfolosi, a rare show from the Seckou Keita Quintet, a unique interpretation of the work of Scotland’s […]