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Bristol Folk Festival '12

last updated : Wed 2nd May 12
 
Date:  Saturday 5th - Monday 7th May 12
Location:  Colston Hall & O2 Academy, Bristol - MAP
Cost:  £80 (£70 concessions) for the weekend
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Bristol's Folk Festival will take place over three days at the city's Colston Hall, and O2 Academy during the May Day Bank Holiday weekend running from Saturday 5th May to Monday 7th May 2012.

Line-up

New additions include Jacanda, Nick Wood, Rob Bowden, Thornbridge, Rodney Branigan, Rua Macmillan, Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston, Belinda O'Hooley & Heidi Tidow, Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts, Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, Rory McLeod & The Familiar Strangers, Benji Kirkpatrick, Amy Wadge & Pete Riley, and Will Pound & Dan Walsh.

Saturday headliners are Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes, Sunday headliner is Cara Dillon, and Monday headliner Afro Celt Sound System. Newton Faulkner plays the city's O2 Academy on Saturday. Also confirmed are Karine Polwart, Rua Macmillan, 3 Daft Monkeys, Lady Maisery, Will Pound, Hannah James and Sam Sweeney, Young'Uns, Lucy Ward, ahab, Blair Dunlop, and a Village Thing Records showcase (featuring Wizz Jones, Tucker Zimmerman, Ben Mandelson and Ian A. Anderson, Nancy Wallace, Jason Steel and Pamela Wyn-Shannon). Expect around 40 acts, plus Morris dancers, mummers and maypoles, ceilidhs, workshops, and singalong sessions.

For the line-up details as available please click here.

Tickets

The early bird offer has ended. Tickets are priced at £80 for the three days (concessions £70). Family tickets are priced at £250 (2 adults and two children aged 5-15) and under 5s go free. Day tickets are priced at £30 for Saturday, £35 for Sunday, and £40 for Monday with a £2 concession offered for children aged 5-15 years, students, pensioners, disabled and unwaged. To buy tickets, click here.

Tickets for Bristol Folk Festival's 7.30pm Newton Faulkner show were priced at £16 and have sold out.

Indoor camping

Those wanting to camp for the festival will be able to stay a minutes walk from the venue at St Mary-on-the-Quay church. The church in Colston Street will welcome campers to its hall for just £12 a night (*under 15s accompanied by a responsible adult are full price but under 5s go free.) To buy camping, click here.

More information will be here when available.


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