
There has been an annual folk festival in the East Yorkshire market town of Beverley since the early 1980s.
Music, folk dancing – from morris to rapper to clog and everything in between – and entertainment comes to the streets and multiple venues of Beverley for a number of days in the early summer. The town has hosted “countless legendary performances by hundreds of artists, helping to create the flourishing live music scene we have in the town today”, say the organisers of the festival, which this year brings folk to the fore from June 20 to 22.
Sadly, in 2018, the festival was cancelled, but a small band of enthusiasts carried on the event under the name “Beverley Fringe”. It was so successful (and award-winning) that the team – they managed to stage an entirely online event during the pandemic of 2020 – changed the name back to Beverley Folk Festival for the 2022 event and the festivals since.
Beverley Folk Festival reinvests profits directly back into the event and donates the proceeds from its annual “Buskathon” to a local charity each year. Below you can find a selection of images taken from the Hull Daily Mail archives of past festivals
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