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22-25 may 

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WORKSHOPS & SESSIONS

Day by Day

FRIDAY

We strongly recommend  you buy a programme , which gives you all the information  in detail  that you need and of course you're supporting the festival !!

EARLY BIRD SESSION ' 3pm  your hosts Roger Sutcliffe and  Mel Langton 

FOYER FOLK 3.30pm with The Browns, Blow Ins, Mel Langton, What Larks, Matt Stringer and Alex Akiba.

5.00pm SINGAROUND hosted by  Tony Haynes & The Blow Ins. 

MEET THE ARTISTS - The John Ward Trio 7.00pm

FESTIVAL FOLK CLUB hosted by Tom Perry & Clive Brooks 8.00pm

Evening Concert  with Beth Burrows, Vic Shepherd & John Bowden, Alex Akiba, The Water Chorus, Joshua Arnold & Therine.

SATURDAY

Foyer Folk from 10.30am with Boathook Bald, John Dunleavy,Tom Perry & Clive Brooks, Steve Turner,

10.30am - Advanced Guitar Workshop, Meet 'Lost in the Loop',

11.00am -1.00pm THRIFT SHOP Matt Stringer, Jenny Cook and What larks.

12.45 Workshop -'Older English Songs'

1.00pm ( Studio) Afternoon Concert with Alex Akiba, Joshua Arnold & Therine, Jenny Cook, What Larks, Lost in the Loop, Beth Burrows and Steve Turner

1.00pm (Main Hall) The Browns, Vic Shepherd & John Bowden, Wickenwood, John Ward Trio

2.00pm A Poem a Pint , a tune and a Song' SEssion.

3.30 CEILIDH

4.00pm Introducing the music of Appalchia

5.15pm Songs of Resistance 

5.30pm ( Studio) Early Evening Concert with Roger Sutcliffe, Alex Alkiba, John Dunleavy, The Blow Ins, The Water Chorus, Mel Langton, Wickenwood and Vic Shepherd & John Bowden

6.30pm Beginners Banjo

7.30pm Festival Folk Club

7.00pm Evening Concert -Main Hall  with Joshua Arnold & Therine, Jenny Cook, Steve Turner, Square Peg and John Ward Trio

SUNDAY

10.30am FOYER FOLK  featuring WICKENWOOD, Jenny Cook, The BROWNS and Beth Burrows.

From 11am SONG COMPETITION

 WORKSHOPS -Beginners Banjo, BODHRAN , Advanced Ukelele and SINGING & PLAYING TOGETHER for all abilities, 

A TIME FOR PEACE - a relaxing session of music and silence. 

THE FOWKE TRADITION (The Life and work of  Folk Song Collector, Edith Fowke with Shepherd & Bowden. 

THE SONGS of KEITH MARSDEN with Ken Hall

1.00pm JOA Afternoon Concert featuring The Blow Ins,  THE WATER CHORUS, JOHN & LYNNE WARD, SQUARE PEG, LOST IN THE LOOP, Jenny Cook, and RICHARD GRAINGER. 

STUDIO CONCERT featuring Tom Perry & Clive Brooks, WHAT LARKS, Boathook Bald, Roger Sutcliffe , The Browns, JOSHUA ARNOLD & THERINE

THRIFT SHOP 12-2.30 with What Larks, Lost in the Loop and VIC SHEPHERD & JOHN BOWDEN.

2.30 pm Join Tom Perry & Clive Brookes  for a SINGAROUND

3.15pm Meet WICKENWOOD,

WHITBY MARITIME

                                               SHANTY FESTIVAL

                                                     16-17th May

                                                           2026

                                                     

    CAPTAIN COOK Memorial MUSEUM  

  PANNETT  ART GALLERY

THE ENDEAVOUR INN

 Evening Maritime Concert 

  BRIGGSWATH CHAPEL HALL

   Tickets £7 available online

   or £8 on the door

 Traditional SEA MUSIC , SHANTIES 

& Stories

 

   Please email darklander1@icloud.com

 

  Performers from all over the UK 

AL'n JOHN

AUCKLAND SHANTY SINGERS

   BETH BURROWS 

BOATHOOK BALD 

BRIDGE SHANTY CREW 

FYLINGDALES FOLK CHOIR 

HORNSEA SHANTY LASSES

JOHN HORSEY

MEL LANGTON

NOBODYS FRIENDS SHANTY SINGERS

SHIP TO SHORE SHANTY CREW 

STEVE TURNER 

STEVE & JULIE WIGLEY

  WHITBY TILLERMEN FRIENDS

WHITBY YOUTH BAND 

                                                                                        

 

                                                                              AL 'n' JOHN

 

                                                                THE BRIDGE SHANTY CREW

 

 

                                                           

                                                          HORNSEA SHANTY LASSSES                                                                    

                                                                                          

                                                                            BETH BURROWS

 

 

                                                                                                      

                                                   NOBODYS FRIENDS SHANTY SINGERS

 

                                                             AUCKLAND SHANTY SINGERS

 

                                                                         BOATHOOK BALD

                                                              FYLINGDALES FOLK CHOIR

 

                                                                            JOHN HORSEY

                                                                           MEL  LANGTON

                                                         SHIP TO SHORE SHANTY SINGERS

 

                         

                                                                         STEVE TURNER

                                                                 STEVE & JULIE WIGLEY

 

                                               

 

 

 

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