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Competition! Win weekend tickets to next year’s festival

Competition! Win weekend tickets to next year’s festival

Hello Ely people, it's competition time! Yes, we're giving away a pair of weekend tickets plus camping for next year's festival. All you have to do is head over to our Facebook page, like and share the competition post and try to work out who it is from the clue. ...

…xmas shopping days left…

…xmas shopping days left…

Not many shopping days to Christmas! And not many of our Early Bird festival tickets left either! Need we say more? A weekend adult ticket is only £105 at the moment for three days of great music, great food, great beer (and gin), great… well you get the idea. Don’t...

Fancy stewarding at Ely?

Fancy stewarding at Ely?

Would you like to help us ensure Ely Folk Festival 2024 runs smoothly? If so, read on.....we're recruiting volunteer stewards to work with us over the festival weekend. More details and the application form can be found https://elyfolkfestival.co.uk/get-involved/

What they’re saying about us!

What they’re saying about us!

We've published a new Reviews & Quotes page on the website so you can see what some of our past artists and Rock'n'Reel magazine say about Ely Folk Festival.  Hint: it's all good!  Check the page out here.

New sustainability page!

New sustainability page!

We've added a new page to the website detailing what we're doing about sustainability and being greener.  This will be updated regularly with additional actions we're taking.  Check it out here.

Festival feedback from musicians

Festival feedback from musicians

Here are some of the lovely things, musicians who performed have said about Ely Folk Festival 2023: The Banter ceilidh at Ely Folk Festival was a stonker!!!  Thanks dancey people!! – Banter   That was special! – Ferocious Dog  We had such a mint weekend playing for a...

Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage

Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage

Since emerging in 2016, Hannah & Ben have been defying all conventions of style, genre and compartmentalisation. A touch of ‘Americana’, yet quintessentially English. Traditional, yet contemporary, with their individual writing style. Playful and instinctive, they...

Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader grew up in Glasgow and Irvine, Scotland and it was in those towns that she learned to use music as a vehicle for communicating with others through busking and performing at the local folk clubs. She famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the...

Lifecraft

Lifecraft

Lifecraft was the charity we chose to support over the 2023 Ely Folk Festival; and the hard working morris dance teams who performed over the festival weekend collected a wonderful £450 for it. Lifecraft is a user-led organisation for adults in the Cambridgeshire and...

Winning entries from 2023 Photo Comp

Winning entries from 2023 Photo Comp

Thanks to all who submitted entries to the 2023 Festival Photo Competition which had the theme of 'It's such a lovely day'. The submissions captured what a great day spent at the festival meant to different people and were a joy to judge. With so many wonderful...

Guise

Guise

GUISE is the heart and soul of pop-folk singer-songwriter Jess Guise. Possessed of a remarkable folk lilt, she sings with delicacy whilst landing some vicious asides - by turns sweet, funny, and haunting. Whilst locked down with her husband, Frank Turner, Jess won the...

Nick Parker

Nick Parker

Glastonbury based Nick Parker started gigging in his early teens playing mandolin and singing in folk/rock/skiffle band ‘Why?’, and spent the next 10 years bouncing around on stages at hundreds of venues and festivals around the UK and Europe. In 2010 Nick embarked on...

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