The 2017 festival was our 50th, with the first taking place in 1968.

Next year’s festival will be from 6th to 9th September 2018.
The best folk festival/cultural event in the Welsh Border area, featuring over 170 hours of entertainment in just one weekend of traditional music, song and dance.

7th, 8th, 9th  & 10th
September 2017

2017 Programme

Le Vent du Nord • Jamie Smith’s Mabon • The Mighty Doonans • Rusty Shackle • Ímar • Crows • Daoiri Farrell

Kitty Macfarlane • Cosmotheka • Keith Donnelly • Granny’s Attic • Northern Company • Rachel Croft • Jeff Warner • Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith • Georgia Lewis Band • Les Barker • Midswégan • Colin Pitts • Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne • Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman • Graeme Knights • Jim Mageean • Flos and Friends • Fold Theatre • Jib • Rowan Piggott • Peter and Barbara Snape • The Falconers • Worcester Ukulele Club • Ursula Holden-Gill • Dr Sunshine’s Pavement Show • Shooting Roots • Tuneworks • Bordewey, Young and Gittens • Speake and Lowe • Cate Haynes • Rhodri Davies • The Night Before • Rob Barratt • Madeleine Smith • Joe Hodgson • Cock And Bull Band • Contra Alt Delete • Tickled Pink • Emma and the Professor • Fee Lock • Dragonhead • Mrs Midnights • Georgia Lewis • Mike Boston • Jeff Gillett • Jen Morgan • Pete Grassby • Terry Walden • Geoff Cubitt • Alden/Patterson/Dashwood • Bendigo Davies • Come All Ye • Dan the Hat • Dave James • Eric and Eilieen Payne • Faith Page • Jan Edgecombe’s Blackboard Van • Jim McDonald • Joe Hodgson and Roger Wilkins • Julia Davies • Ken Johnson • NYFTE • Sam Walter • Sambassadors of Groove • Wyld Thyngz

We had a NEW CONCERT on the Thursday evening:
The Future Of Bromyard
Rachel Croft, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Granny’s Attic and hosted by Georgia Lewis

Bromyard Folk Festival is proud to host some of the most outstanding local, national and international traditional folk festival musicians performing in concert, ceilidhs and displays.

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