A mass Morris meet will help kick off the entertainment on both mornings of the inaugural Frome Folk Festival, taking place on 18 and 19 February.
More than 100 Morris dancers from Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire will be performing inside the Cheese and Grain, the festival’s main event venue, from 9am on both days, along with session musicians.
A number of Morris dance ‘sides’ ill be represented. These will include: Somerset Morris; Rag Morris, the University of Bristol’s side; Wiltshire’s White Horse Morris; Priston Jubilee Morris from the Cotswolds; Mr Wilkins Shilling, a Bath-based female clog side whose dances stem from Lancashire mill towns, and the one man Billy No Mates, from Somerset.
Among the folk musicians and bands performing during the two-day festival will be Steve Knightley, of Show of Hands, who was interviewed for an article on folk music in December’s Countryside magazine, and Spiers and Boden, who are nominated in the Best Duo category of the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
The festival’s list of performers taking part also includes Jackie Oates and her band, Bella Hardy, Belshazzar’s Feast, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Chris Wood, and Pilgrims’ Way, a North West-based trio who are nominated for the Horizon Award (for most promising emerging act) at this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
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