The Teignmouth Folk Festival is pleased to announce Paddy’s Whiskers will be performing at this years event. “Paddy’s Whiskers play traditional Irish, Celtic and American music in their own upbeat contemporary style. Foot stomping Irish jigs and reels rollicking border bagpipe tunes, haunting slow airs, banjos and fiddles twisting and turning to weave intricate melodies. Recently featured on BBCI, Paddy’s Whiskers have been playing for ten years at festivals, gigs and parties across the South West and in Europe. With a scattering of original tunes and songs, The Whiskers play folk music with a slightly harder edge. Inspired by The Pogues, The Clash, Altan andRead More →

The Teignmouth Folk Festival is pleased to announce that Teignmouth’s own Celt, will be performing at this years event.  They can be seen on Saturday Afternoon on the Triangle Stage from 2:00 till 2:45pm and from 3:30 till 4:15pm. CELT are a high energy, traditional celtic 4 piece band. We are based in Teignmouth and the band features Steve, Sandy, Roxy and Roisin who hail from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England respectively, so we have a wide range of musical influences. We enjoy all genres of music and use our individual styles to try and create fresh arrangements of songs and tunes we have learnedRead More →

The Booking Form for this years event is now available to download. To pre-book your tickets for this years event. Click Here to download the Teignmouth Folk Festival 2018 Booking Form Please print off a copy of this form and send with your cheque, made payable to Teignmouth Folk Festival: Send to Anne Gill, Festival Office, Maleth, 11 Cleveland Road, Torquay, TQ2 5BD Please enclose a stamped addressed envelopeRead More →

We are happy to announce that Maggie Duffy will be performing at this years Teignmouth Folk Festival. Maggie Duffy is a singer song writer who accompanies her exquisite voice on guitar. Maggie has been singing longer than she cares to remember – where did the years go?. Well, where ever they went Maggie is still going strong as a professional performer or enjoying a music session.Read More →

We are pleased to announce that “Windjammer” will be the support act for the Ian Bruce concert on Saturday night. “Windjammer are a contemporary folk trio, based in Plymouth, Devon. They play original material, along with new arrangements of traditional songs and tunes, and singing in three-part harmony. They are: Jake Sonny Rowlinson on vocals, anglo concertina and percussion, Jeremy Bunting on guitar, percussion and vocals, and Fran Rowney on piano accordion, low whistles, piano and vocals. They recently launched their debut EP in Plymouth’s Barbican Theatre to a sold out audience, with very special support from Jim Causley.”Read More →

We are pleased to announced that Ian Bruce will be performing at the 2018 Teignmouth Folk Festival. Here are some details on Ian Bruce: b. 21 January 1956, Rutherglen, Glasgow, Scotland. Singer-songwriter Bruce began an early career singing in folk clubs with his brother Fraser (b. Andrew Fraser Bruce, 13 January 1947, Fulham, London, England). They recorded three albums together before Ian gradually moved into solo work, although he continued to hold down his day job as a draughtsman at Yarrow Shipbuilders. A brief sojourn with a band called Scotland Yard, which included Marilyn Middleton Pollock and Sandy Stanage, resulted in Wishing For Friday, whichRead More →

We are pleased to reveal that “The Crows” will be performing at the the 2018 Teighmouth Folk Festival. Crows were formed in 1977. The formation arose from a meeting at the Anchor Folk Club in Benfleet. There were flyers advertising a concert featuring the folk supergroup Bandoggs. The guests at the club that night were a young duo from Swindon, Mick Ryan and John Burge. In the audience were up and coming London based duo Silas (James Patterson and Ralph Jordan) seeking a gig. ‘We could be a supergroup’ one of the four suggested, ‘and be called Crows’, said Mick….and so we were. Rehearsals inRead More →