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Headliners announced for Bristol Folk Festival 2024
Bristol Folk Festival returns from May 3 to 5 across several different venues.
The festival have announced their three headline acts for this year’s event, while sessions, dance and workshops will also take place across the city.
Kicking things off will be The Breath, the pairing of softly-spoken guitar whizz Stuart McCallum and folk singer Ríoghnach Connolly. The duo will perform a special concert at Bristol Cathedral to open the three day event.
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Spiers and Boden will headline the festival on May 4 at St George’s, the duo are the masterminds behind English contemporary folk band Bellowhead.
Frankie Archer will also join the Saturday night lineup. The Northumbrian artist is shaking up tradition, with synths, samples, looping fiddles and a call for a fairer future for all.
The singer will arrive in Bristol fresh from her performance on Jools Holland and her time supporting The Last Dinner Party on tour.
Sunday sees Bristol’s own roots legend, Lady Nade, headline the afternoon. Nominated for Artist of the Year and winner of Song of the Year at the UK Americana Awards 2023, the artist will be showing off her distinctive sound at St George’s.
Bristol’s own Lady Nade will be bringing her eclectic Americana folk sound to the festival – photo: Bristol Folk Festival
The festival will close with Sheelanagig, promising to blow the roof off St George’s with their armoury of strings (guitar, fiddle, double bass).
Supporting the band will be Filkin’s Ensemble a 15-piece folk orchestra, who have recently earned widespread acclaim for an 870 mile foot-powered-tour.
Weekend and individual tickets are now on sale for the festival at https://bristolfolkfestival.org/tickets/
Main photo: Bristol Folk Festival
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