Flook Richard Thompson Julie Fowlis £6 Rivington Morris FESTIVAL Festival Patrons: Martin Carthy MBE and Show of Hands PROGRAMME Sidmouth Sidmouth Town Council Hotels Welcome ... from the Festival Director Now in its afternoons plus blockbuster evenings. Don’t Sidmouth welcomes you to the 65th – another 65th year, miss The Bulverton Big Nights Out, Kennaway great Festival. Enjoy every moment and bring our vibrant House’s ‘Cellar Full of Folkadelia and Bedford your memories back with you in 2020. Festival starts Hotel-based EFDSS Presents concerts. Plus all a new era, our other town venues. Huge choice and superb John Braithwaite with refreshed quality. Experience that unique Folk Festival Festival Director branding and a atmosphere across the town, with music and clearer name, The Sidmouth Folk Festival; ‘still dance everywhere. Environmental 2019 uniquely glorious and gloriously unique’. One Young people get a special place at our Festival. This year will see the introduction of reusable of the highest profile folk events in the world, The setting for the Children’s Festival in the souvenir drinks cups at our bars, no single use the Festival offers huge diversity to suit all town centre Blackmore Gardens is idyllic. The plastics at our catering stands and zero waste tastes, ages and interests. Its scope is unique, Youth programme offers the next stage with to landfill through our new waste management stretching from the genre’s highest profile energetic and challenging activities –never a system. Why not bring your own reusable artists to a 10 person masterclass, going via dull moment with Shooting Roots! drinks bottle and use our Water Refill Points. 270 workshops, concerts of all sizes and styles, These are located at The Ham, the Market storytelling and every variety of folk dance, with Food is important too, so we have brought in a Square (on the side of the Market building to- a new in-town main venue. To avoid missing celebrated local restaurant and event caterer, wards the town), in the ‘arches’ on the seafront out, plan carefully to make the most of what’s the Rusty Pig, as the main caterer at the Ham (at the western end of the Esplanade), below on offer. Don’t miss the many notable celebra- and extra food offerings at The Bulverton. Drinks the Cricket Ground, at the Campsite and at The tions this year – details on the following pages. also feature, with our bars serving Gloucester’s Bulverton (in the Garden area). Our next era will be as exciting and demanding Wickwar Brewing Company ales, Crediton’s These are just some of the initiatives we are as the last. We aim to meet the challenge of Sandford Orchards prize winning ciders, plus implementing as we continue to reduce our our customers’ expectations and developments wines, spirits and cocktails. reliance on single use plastics and to make in the Festival arena. Be assured though that The Festival is very big and complex. To make the festival a more environmentally sustainable we won’t lose sight of our unique, special it happen, our many supporters, the 3 Councils event. Sidmouth attributes: the things that persuade and partner organisations including fRoots, you to spend up to 8 days in this lovely, EFDSS, Creative Scotland, Hobgoblin and Accessibility 2019 flower-laden town on Devon’s extraordinary Halsway Manor play a vital role – Thank you. For 2019 we have simplified the process for red coastline, where everyone can create their We are also particularly grateful to our local obtaining a Personal Assistant ticket and as an own festival. sponsors – thanks for your essential support. ongoing process we are improving the acces- I’m really looking forward to The Ham Finally, we rely on our 500 volunteers and the sibility information that we provide. If you have concert venue programme, our strongest in Core team – thank you too for your time and any questions relating to accessibility please years – great shows at lunchtimes and in the skills. email [email protected]. page 3 Old Fore Street, Sidmouth Tel: 01395 514271 • Open all day during Folk Festival • 80-seat restaurant • Children’s meals • Take-away food • Folk Festival Gold sponsor Sidmouth Folk Festival Celebrating 65 years in style With over 750 programmed events we Diane Silver direct from North Carolina. The Eye on the Future programming aim to celebrate this national treasure’s Special shows created for Sidmouth showcases some brilliant young talent 65th birthday in style! Make the festival include: a revisited Living By The Sea with the National Youth Folk your own – throwing yourself headlong show at the Ham – a feast of words and Ensemble, Feis Rois Ceilidh Trail, into the huge programme of concerts, music celebrating Sidmouth’s seaside Stream of Sound and our own dances and workshops with a best value communities; Adrian Williams’ Hey in Shooting Roots. Season Ticket. Dip in and out of selected the Hay, bringing to life the rural lives events at leisure and make the most of of the ‘Dixton Haymakers’ painting with And keeping it firmlyIn the Tradition at all that the beautiful seaside location music and dance, and a Tribute to the The Woodlands Hotel, guests include the has to offer. much-missed Roy Bailey. Then there’s wonderful Tony Hall, Eileen O’Brien Dartmoor at The Seaside celebrating & Conor Keane, Sheena Wellington, The following daily programme the moor’s thriving traditional music and Harbour Lights Trio and more. pages are a guide to creating your own dance scene, past and present; The Road custom-built festival experience. Read to Peterloo’s broadside ballad show and Wall-to-wall fun and activities for your on here for a tip-of-the-iceberg taster of The Young Uns’ touching musical ad- family take place at the Children’s what’s special for 2019. venture, The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff... Festival. Enjoy the festive atmosphere and much more. of Blackmore Gardens during the day, It’s a BIG birthday for the festival this and head out to the superb Family week – 65 years on from that very first Big Nights Out at The Bulverton feature Evening Shows before sleep-time! folk dance event in 1955. But there the incendiary Celtic party sounds of are a lot of other notable celebrations Peatbog Faeries, local hero Seth Or, ‘now for something completely differ- to make a noise about too. Born in Lakeman, Anglo-French dance music ent’? A superb programme of Sidmouth, the wonderful Shooting innovators Topette!! and folk rock left-field sounds at the Cellar Full of Roots Youth events turn 25 this week. favourites Merry Hell. Make a full night Folkadelia, Ukulele Workshops, Storytell- Festival favourite Sandra Kerr’s Festival of it and stay on for Late Night Extra ing, New Poetry Open Mic, Choir workshop also celebrates 25 Ceilidhs and early hours sessions! Sidmouth Horse Trials and Spooky years. The one and only Token Women Men’s Chorale’s world record attempt at celebrate 30 years since they got Feel like a dance? You can trip the light the MANCARENA! Don’t ask! Just join in! together at Sidmouth, with a special fantastic in fun-filled ceilidhs each day one-off reunion with former members. with the likes of Whapweasel, Banter Have a great birthday week! Blackbeard’s Tea Party take over and Kirkophany and a New Callers’ The Bulverton for a night for their 10th Showcase. Want to try a different dance Steve Knightley anniversary. And Festival Patron Steve style? We have Lindy Hop, Salsa and Knightley celebrates 50 years since he Indian joining old festival favourites, first came to the festival with a mega European, Balkan, Scandinavian and Irish concert at The Ham with special guests. Set! And don’t miss Morris Wednesday, Dance Spectaculars, Processions and the Big Concert Names at the Ham this year legendary Jig Competition. include the debut Sidmouth appearance Sidmouth Horse Trials of the legendary Richard Thompson, just a few months before he celebrates his 70th year at the Albert Hall. We are delighted to welcome back the extraor- dinary English/Irish musical explorers Flook, Quebecois firebrandsLe Vent du Nord, dulcet Gaelic song ambas- sador Julie Fowlis and the deliciously unexplainable Spooky Men’s Chorale! Folk Dance remains at the centre of the festival with three in town evening venues including the splendid Music Room at Sidholme Hotel as well as three hour Square and Contra workshops with page 5 Thursday 1st August 001 7:30-9:30 pm Market Square Welcome To Sidmouth 2019. The traditional informal start to FolkWeek with Great Western Morris, Sidmouth Steppers, Sidmouth Traditional Mummers and Mrs. Midnight’s. MC. Mike Boston. Collection 002 8:00-10:30 pm The Ham Pre-festival Special Lindisfarne. Plus Miranda Sykes. MC. Derek Schofield. Not included in All-In-One, Week and Weekend tickets. Supported by Sidmouth Rugby Club £24/£20 (£12/£10) Friday 2nd August 101 12:00-2:30 pm Anchor Garden Ceilidh with Mrs. Midnight’s. Caller Mike Boston. Supported by Anchor Inn Collection 102 3:00-4:00 pm Anchor Garden Afternoons At The Anchor with The Boxwood Chessmen. Collection 103 3:00-5:15 pm The Ham Pre-Festival Special with Ralph McTell. Plus Kitty Macfarlane. MC. Derek Schofield. Not included in All-In-One, Week and Weekend tickets. Supported by White Horse Café £24/£20 (£12/£10) 104 4:30-6:00 pm St Teresa’s Absolute Beginners’ Dance Workshop with Kerry Fletcher, Frances Watt and Chris Church Hall Walshaw. If you think you can’t dance then this is for you! We’ll cover the basic dance rhythms and steps you’ll need to join in the dances at the rest of the festival.