The 6th Suffolk Folk Festival
4 - 6 June
2010
The St. Edmund's Crown is our festival logo, as St. Edmund
is Suffolk's patron saint.
In 2009 there was Morris,
Sword and Appalachian dancing in Woodbridge on the
Saturday and Sunday.
Dance sides that performed at the 2009 festival were:
Rumford
Morris
Barley Brigg North West Morris
Logdansarna (Sweden)
Danegeld
Fenstanton Morris
Rising Larks
Ebekneezer
Bullnose Morris
Bury Fair Women’s Morris
Annie's Fantasies
Green Dragon Morris
St Neots Sweeps & Milkmaids
Westrefelda
Royal Liberty Morris
Datchet Border Morris
Sproughton Long Blades
Chelmo Champs
Black Skunk Morris
Lagabag Morris
Rumburgh Morris
Maldon Greenjackets
Pretty Grim
Ely & Littleport Riot
Alive & Kicking
Harwich Morris Men
The Miss-Fits
During the Saturday afternoon there was a free
acoustic concert in Woodbridge
Library with
Paul & Liz
Davenport from Yorkshire.
Paul & Liz Davenport
There was a concert on the Saturday
evening at the 5th Woodbridge Sea Scouts
Hall on the Quayside. Acts include Paul & Liz
Davenport, Patrick Gillard and
Shadows in the Shade.
The Cherry Tree Inn
again held a beer festival over the weekend and was
one of the folk festival's featured dance spots. The shanty
group, High Water Mark, performed there
during the Saturday evening.
The Saturday evening ceilidh was held at the
Abbey School with Pluck'n'Squeeze
and Gill Bosley.
The free Sunday concert of music and
song was again held in Elmhurst Park.
Artists who performed on the Sunday afternoon were
The Larks,
Kiss the
Mistress,
Triangle,
The Bounty Hounds and
Cruel
Folk. (Click on the names to visit their web
pages.)
The
Larks Kiss
the Mistress
The Bounty
Hounds Cruel
Folk
Triangle
Camping was again available at Woodbridge
Town Football Club.
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It’s your festival. It wouldn’t exist without your support, so
please let us know how you would like it to develop.
Thanks, Mike
The 5th Suffolk Folk Festival was organised
by Sproughton
Folk.
Lots of other events in East Anglia can be found at
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