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"The UK's biggest annual winter folk event"
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| Welcome to the home page of Bedworth Folk Festival and thanks for visiting us!
Here you can get the latest news of this years event, plus all the guest, venues and ticket information, you can also book online using our secure Paypal 24/7 booking service, or print out a personalised booking form if you wish to book through the post. (Please be mindful of the potential of postal delays - we would ask you to provide an email address if booking through the post after 17th November so we can confirm safe receipt of your booking) LATEST NEWS 25/11/09 - Final Running Order confirmed and on the web site Oh and you can have a chat on Mudcat too if you like! 21/11/09 - The only caravan/campervan space remaining is for Fri/Sat night only, and this is running out rapidly! 15/11/09 - Running order now published on web site, also dance display schedule and Craft Fair exhibitors information 12/11/09 - Outline running order will be on the web site over the week-end. 8/11/09 (Sorry we delayed this a week to allow for Full week-end tickets booked through the delayed post!) 7/11/09 - We are pleased to say that due to the increase in capacity for Caravans and campervans this year we still have a few parking spaces left - if the PayPal booking system is still available there is space left - we will withdraw the caravan/campervan selections as appropriate when fully booked 5/11/09 - RALPH McTELL - TICKETS RAPIDLY RUNNING OUT - ACT QUICKLY! As many of you know the Civic Hall are putting on a special "Ralph McTell in Concert" on the friday evening 27th November - featuring Ralph McTell (with support from The Carrivick Sisters) to form part of the Festival week-end - You can get all the information from The Civic Hall Website - tickets are £17.50, however if you have booked a festival ticket the Civic Hall will give you a discount of £5 per ticket - that's almost a third off! (Just ring the booking office direct on 024 76376707 and give them your festival booking reference number to qualify) 1/10/09 - HELPERS WANTED! - Do you want to help out at Bedworth Festival this year? If so we are still looking for stewards so if you haven't got your ticket yet this is a great way of joining in the fun for free, in exchange for your help we will give you a weekend pass to all events - want to know more? - then email Gill Gilsenan and she'll tell you what the deal is! You can also look on our stewards page This year the Festival takes place over the week-end of 27th – 29th November, and although we are still finalising one or two names for the guest list, we think we have already put together yet again a really great line-up for the week-end. Last year we had a lot of really nice comments about what a great “singers” festival Bedworth is, and what really pleased us is that that has been our aim over the years - and is also the criteria that we consider when compiling the guest list! So what is in store this year? A list of man It is also more than appropriate to mention a very special annual visitor to Bedworth who will no longer be with us. The tragic loss of Johnny Collins in the week as we finalized our line-up for 2009 has left us all stunned and left a big gap in the folk world - we know however that Johnny would want us to all get together as usual and have really “Good Times”, and of course we plan to do something special in Johnny’s memory! Although over the years the Festival has grown into quite a large event it has still retained its unique “intimate” atmosphere: You can enjoy a whole week-end of music, song and dance for little more than the price of just a concert! - It’s a Festival to ”get involved in” - where the audience is (at least!) as important as the guests! - It's where the folk scene meets for its Christmas Party - for a good sing, dance and play, a good story, a good drink, some good company, and a really good time! - It’s the place to be at the end of the Festival season! Ceilidhs * Concerts * Singarounds * Music Sessions * Poetry & Storytelling * Real Ale Bars * Workshops * Folk Clubs * Meet the Artiste * "Themed" shows and sessions * Childrens events * Dance Displays * Craft Fair * The Famous "Bedworth Voices Concert" ....... plus much more
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y of the county’s very best traditional and contemporary performers - not a big list of commercial headliners, but a whole host of the performers that form the backbone of todays folk music and song scene, great established names like Strawhead, Bryony, Jim Mageean, Graeme Knights, Barrie & Ingrid Temple, Ian Bruce, Bob & Gill Berry, Geoff Higginbottom, Derek Gifford, Jon Harvison and Phil Hare; some name
s who have really made a big impact on the scene in the last few years like GU4, Duncan McFarlane, J P Slidewell, and some names that are destined to be stars of the future - just watch out for Tri, already getting rave reviews everywhere they play. This year we also have some really spectacuar dance displays organised with the largest contingent of ritual dancers ever to visit the festival, plus a splattering of other performers from the best of the National and Local folkscene. We will be holding our annual Craft Fair in the Civic Hall, which will also be the venue for the Grand Ceilidh on Saturday evening with the great combination of Pete Grassby and The Aardvarks! Be sure to keep up with all the news, as the plans unfold, here, on our web site.