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 →

We are pleased to announce that the City Of Plymouth Band will be returning to the Teignmouth Folk Festival in 2018. Here are some details on the band: The band was formed in 1975 by a former member of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was known as the Plymouth Argyll Pipe Band. The band later became Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Association Pipes and Drums, and 1985 changed its name to now know City of Plymouth Pipe Band and is honoured to have the Lord Mayor of Plymouth as Patron. The Band is also honoured to be affiliated to 29 Commando Regiment Royal ArtilleryRead More →