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 Jarrow March 90 years on – Graham Pirt
The bodhran, Beat your heart out! – Steve Bentley (Greenman Rising)
Singing in harmony – Winter Wilson
Friday 2nd October
Winter Wilson – St Hildas Church
Performance PM
Singaround at the Cosmopolitan.
Folk concert featuring Reuben and the Bridge at The Victoria Arms.
Saturday 3rd October
Winter Wilson – St Hildas Church
Singing in Harmony Workshop AM
Winter Wilson – St Hildas Church
Performance PM
Gaelforce, Keith Donnelly, Malin Hill, Wychwood, Morris Dancers, Hartlepool Samba Drum Band.
Craft fair 10am -4pm Headland Club.
5.00pm Keith Donnelly’s children’s join in concert.
Evening, Live music with Generation 4 and late “Elvis” Cabaret act.
Punch & Judy & Kids entertainment in the Cosmopolitan beer garden, followed by evening sing in the lounge bar.
Live music and Morris dancing at the Heugh Battery Museum.
Literary event, workshops and concerts at the Borough Hall
Trad concert and playarounds at The Victoria Arms
Sunday 4th October
Plum Hall, Greenman Rising, Serious Sam Barrett, Lewis Pugh & Dave Broad at St Hildas afternoon.
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 and Hartlepool Junior schools combined choir.
Children’s join in concerts & face painting at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.