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We're delighted to announce our food traders for this year. A mix of old favourites and new names, we will be welcoming All wood fired Maya Rainbow Cuisine Moor & Coast Catering Whitby Tibetflavour Hunkydory East Coast Gelato Blackbirds Nest mobile coffee shop...

We'll have three Meet & Greet sessions this year with Georgia Shackleton, Sherburn Bartley Sanders and Gerry Colvin giving you an opportunity to ask questions and find out more about the artists and their music in the small intimate setting of our Nightingale...

At our recent AGM we were delighted that one of our directors, Trish Reed, was able to present a cheque for £900 to Ruth Marley of Re-Imagine Resource Centre, our festival charity for 2025. Many thanks to everyone who donated, it's very much appreciated.

We had a wonderful time at Eel Day on Saturday. Bright sunshine, great music from Soloman Smith, Old Man Boom and Claudia & the Braidy Bunch plus we got to chat to a lot of you about the festival when you can catch all these wonderful musicians performing again A...

We're excited to announce our band competition winners. Our Spotlight winner is the fabulous Ellie Walker Music and our Bandstand winner is the wonderful The Ashen Keys and we can't wait to see them perform at the festival. Many thanks to everyone who entered, we...

We're going to be at Eel Day on Saturday May 2nd with a stand and music from I, Claudia, Soloman Smith Music and Old Man Boom, all of whom will be at the festival too! Come along for a chat and a preview. See you there!

Not only can you ease your way into Friday (see previous post) you can do son on Saturday and Sunday as we welcome back Sarah Moss of Ipswich Yoga for Everyone and Jo Gregor, Soul Centred with Sue Szymanski and and their amazing sound bath. Get there early, they're...

A brief update for those of you who've applied to be stewards, to whom a huge thank you! We'll be sending out acceptance emails starting next Wednesday so keep an eye on your inbox. It'll take a few days to get them all out so please bear with us. The only exception...

We're delighted to collaborate with Ely Arts Festival on bringing an evening of fantastic music to Ely on 19th June. Bellowhead founder and front man Jon Boden comes to #elyartsfestival2026 bringing a career that spans big band folk, concept albums and innovation;...

We have our usual army of Morris dancers this year who will be parading in Ely on Saturday and dancing on site. Not quite a complete list but for now we're delighted to welcome Coton Morris, Danegeld Morris, Ely and Littleport Riot Border Morris Gog Magog Molly Green...

We are delighted to announce that our charity this year will be East Anglian Air Ambulance Charity. Tammy Swiderski, Community Fundraising Lead for EAAA says: “We are delighted to be working with the organisers of the Ely Folk Festival and would like to thank the...

Apart from our wonderful music there's loads of workshops to take part in at the festival. We'll have one for Morris, traditional songs for guitar with Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, shanties with Isle 'Ave a Shanty, bodhran with Steve Bentley of Greenman Rising,...