Broadstairs Folk Week announces monthly live shows in Whitstable
‘Folk Week Presents’ will take place at the Horsebridge Arts Centre
Broadstairs Folk Week has announced a new, year-round concert series, ‘Folk Week Presents’, at the Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable.
These brand new, monthly shows will feature Folk Week’s favourite artists in a concert setting with an intimate, folk club feel.
With the aim of broadening the festival’s horizons into other areas of Kent ,whilst raising funds for the 60th Anniversary this August, the team have begun a series of shows in Whitstable to invite audiences to enjoy some of that Folk Week feel more regularly.
Tickets are available directly via https://thehorsebridge.org.uk/folk
On 13th April there is the brilliant ‘raw folk from the Medway Delta’ of The Singing Loins, with support from Herne Bay’s own shanty singers The Figureheads and MC Morag of Rosslyn Court, Margate.
On 11th May is festival patron and virtuoso instrumentalist Tim Edey – a master of many instruments, Tim is a force of a nature not to be missed.
For the 8th June Gabriel Moreno – poet, singer, musician, the vastly talented performer.
Folk Week Presents shows will be raising funds for the 2025 Broadstairs Folk Week festival, where they will be celebrating its 60th Anniversary from 7th to 15th August, 2025 in more than 20 venues across the stunning seaside town.
The 2025 lineup includes some of the biggest names on the scene, from English folk rock legends Lindisfarne to influential traditional singer Martin Carthy with daughter Eliza Carthy, leading Scottish singer/songwriter Eddi Reader and revered Anglo-Irish quartet Flook.
Sounds from around the world include Bangladeshi folk fusion from Khiyo, Zimbabwean buskers Gonora Sounds and Guinean percussionist Falle Nioke.
With the energetic Noble Jacks, the sublime Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman and favourite ceilidh bands Whapweasel, Banter and Brown Boots Boogie Band - as well as a special Q&A with iconic Peggy Seeger online - BFW 2025 has a huge range of brilliant entertainment, including over 160 free pub gigs as well, so you can choose your own festival and join in as much as you like.
Proud to be one of the oldest Folk Festivals in the UK, Folk Week includes more than 400 events over eight festival days annually.
With everything from exclusive concerts to our Saturday parade with over 25 Morris sides, dance displays featuring our traditional Kentish ‘hooden horses’ on the seafront and plenty of free shows for all ages and abilities, Folk Week is a giant, town-wide festival at over twenty locations with something for everyone.
