Full schedule and timings to be confirmed – please keep checking back.
As part of the Folkfest we will be offering a number of workshops and historical documentaries, including:-
The bodhran, Beat your heart out! – Steve Bentley (Greenman Rising)
Singing in harmony – Winter Wilson
We’re honoured to welcome folk icon Eliza Carthy as out patron this year. She will be opening the event on Friday 2nd October and judging our Rising Stars final on Saturday morning.
Friday 2nd October
Becky, Ian Pounder and the Nightingales will be opening the evening at St Hildas Church.
Winter Wilson and Reuben & The Bridge – St Hildas Church
Performance during the evening.
Gabriel Moreno and Quivering Poets at St Hildas church.
Performance during the evening.
Late Sing at the Cosmopolitan with Rustic.
Singaround at the Globe and Buskers.
Folk concert featuring Reuben and the Bridge, Auckland Shanty and Winter Wilson at The Victoria Arms.
In the sports hall there will be Ceilidh and Blind Stag.
Saturday 3rd October
Winter Wilson – Cosmopolitan Hotel
Singing in Harmony Workshop AM
Winter Wilson, Mills & Farrell, Wychwood, Malin Hill, Gaelforce and Matt Stringer – St Hildas Church . Cafe open 6pm.
Gaelforce, Keith Donnelly, Malin Hill, Wychwood, Morris Dancers, Hartlepool Samba Drum Band.
Craft fair 10am -3.30pm Headland Club.
5.00pm Keith Donnelly’s children’s join in concert.
Evening, Live music with Generation 4, Chorus Crew, Mills & Farrell, Keith Donnelly and late “Elvis” Cabaret act.
Punch & Judy & Kids entertainment in the Cosmopolitan beer garden, followed by Matt Stringer, Richard Grainger, Folk Club Night, Golden Plough and a late night sing with Rustic.
Live music and Morris dancing at the Heugh Battery Museum. Nuts, Durham Clog, Matt Stringer, Ebor Morris, Jet Set Morris, Chrous Crew, Malin Hill, Generation 4, Presentation Folk Star.
Literary event, workshops and concerts at the Borough Hall. Gabriel Moreno, R Taylor, Ailsa MacKenzie, SJ Martin, Film Folk Heritage, Female Floor Singers with Beth Burrows & Sue Conroy, Chief and Wychwood will be performing.
The Victoria Arms will host the Rising Star competition and performances from Ailsa MacKenzie, Harp workshop, Beth Burrows female floor singers with Sue Conroy, Chief, Chorus Crew, Matt Stringer, AJ Potter and Mills and Farrell.
Squirtle will host Durham app clog, Piper Jet Set Morris, Salza Band, and Bubble man.
Sunday 4th October
Festival Mass at St Hildas – AM
Cafe and Kids Tresure Hunt over Lunchtime.
Plum Hall, Greenman Rising, Serious Sam Barrett, Lewis Pugh & Dave Broad at St Hildas during the afternoon and evening.
At the Marquee there will be crafting and a folk club with Rustic.
Singaround and playaround at the Globe – AM
Borough Hall, Children’s literary Festival with story reading 11.00am
1940s day at the Heugh Battery Museum with live reenactment, the Seatones, Tees Bay Swing band, Keith Donnelly and Hartlepool Junior schools combined choir.
Children’s join in concerts & face painting at the Cosmopolitan Hotel garden. Sam Barrett, AJ Potter, Sue Conroy and Keith Donnellly will be performing.
Guitar Workshop, Dave Broad, Banjoking with Lewis Pugh will be happening at the Cosmopolitan during the morning followed by Sunday lunches in the lounge – Booking is essential.
You’ll find a songwriting workshop, Mills & Farrell, Bodhran Workshop, Steve Bentley, Malin Hill, Meet & Greet, Sam Barrett, Lewis Pugh, Dave Broad, AJ Potter all over at the Victoria Arms.
The Duke of Cleveland will be hosint Sunday lunches – Booking Essential and in the evening Survivors Ball with Keith Donnelly and Plumbhall followed by a final Sing.
