Shepley Spring Festival '12

Shepley Spring Festival is held in Shepley Village, nr Huddersfield, West Yorkshire from Friday 25th until Sunday 27th May 2012. The festival has a full weekend of events celebrating the best of traditional music, song and dance, including concerts, ceilidhs, morris dancing, music and song sessions, and music and dance workshops.

Based in the rural community of Shepley in the heart of the Yorkshire Pennines, the festival events will be based around a large greenfield site on the edge of the village with campsite adjacent. Shepley is close to motorway links and has its own railway station on the Huddersfield to Sheffield line.

Line-up

The latest acts confirmed are Blair Dunlop, Flats & Sharps, Hekety, Luke Hirst & Sarah Smout, Roy Bailey, Ruth and Sadie Price, Sciorr: Staged, She Shanties, The Davenports, and The Durbervilles. They join The Shee, Genticorum, and The Albion Band they join Treacherous Orchestra, The Demon Barbers, Melrose Quartet, The Wilsons, Belinda O'Hooley & Heidi Tidow, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Tickled Pink, Phil Beer, with many more yet to be announced. For the line-up details, and day splits as available please click here.

On Thursday 24th May there's a special event, an evening with Elkie Brooks. Weekend ticket holders can get a reduced price ticket.

Tickets

The early bird ticket offer has ended. An adult weekend ticket is priced at £80 (camping £15 extra), an adult concession ticket is priced at £75 (camping £15 extra), a youth (12-17 years of age) is priced at £40 (camping £7.50 extra), and a child (under 12) ticket is free (camping free).

Day tickets are priced at £25 for Friday, £40 Saturday/£30 Sunday for adults, An adult concession ticket is priced at £35 Saturday, and £30 for Sunday. A youth (12-17) day ticket for Friday is priced at £12.50, or £20 for Saturday, or £15 for Sunday, and a child (under 12) ticket for any day is free. Tickets are priced at £25 for Saturday evening concert and half price for children. To buy tickets, click here.

Camping

The camping is in a large field adjacent to the main festival site. The campsite can accommodate tents, caravans and campervans. Facilities on site will include flushing toilets, showers, and a breakfast in bed delivery service. The festival campsite is for weekend ticket holders only. The festival campsite will be open from midday on Friday until mid morning on Monday.

Accommodation

There is also a dormitory hostel accommodation with breakfast just a couple of minutes walk from the festival site in Shepley.

On site

As well as the concert marquee, dance tent, showground stage and more, the festival site is also home to a market and food stalls, crafts, a beer festival, and a full programme of youth and children's activities at the children's festival.

More information will be here when available.