FolkEast

Folk music and art at its best, from near and far, with an added Suffolk twist from 15-17 August 2025.

England’s most easterly folk festival will run from August 15-17 at Suffolk’s stunning Sotterley Hall estate near the market town of Beccles.

The 3500-acre private estate is owned by the Barne family and features extensive parkland around a Georgian house – with ancient woodland, a beautiful lake with Palladian folly and a 12th century church.

The festival will play out across five stages – the main Sunset stage overlooking the lake, Moot Hall, the Stage in the Woods, the dance tent and St Margaret of Antioch church.

Jaw-dropping Anglo-Irish multi-instrumental genius Tim Edey will be a must-see performer on the Sunday. Perthshire-based Tim is a BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ‘Musician of the Year’ winner and won the same title at the 2020 Scots Trad Awards.

One of the most outstanding and best-loved musicians in the folk and Celtic genre, Kent-born Tim dazzles on both guitar and box, effortlessly hopping across musical boundaries.

“Tim Edey is brilliant - in every which way. As a guitarist he has few peers. As a box player he’s a magician. As a character he’s off the scale - Colin Irwin, fRoots

“Utterly fantastic. Sheer, wonderful ebullient music” – Mike Harding

“Tim Edey plays a host of different instruments to a standard us mere mortals can only dream of. Listen and weep”- Jim Byrne, The Living Tradition

Saturday will see two brilliantly inventive acts – the trio Lady Maisery (Rowan Rheingans, Hazel Askew and Hannah James) and the duo Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith join forces for a unique celebration of summer – Wakefire.

Having bewitched the FolkEast audience last year with their wintertime show Awake Arise the five-piece return with this new seasonal show weaving such themes as Morris, Mayday, migration and magic. The show description reveals “There is also ritual, rave and cider with Rosie. There are countryside hares and city foxes. There is the fear for our warming planet alongside the promise of ripening fruit. There is class struggle, cuckoo calls, beaches and barbecues.”

For the full line up visit folkeast.co.uk

Tickets

Day and weekend tickets are now on sale – weekend prices are £180 (adults aged 18-64), £170 (65 and over) and £100 for Youth tickets (12-17 years) which must be purchased with an adult ticket. Family weekend tickets for two adults and two 12-17 year olds are £515.

Day tickets are £80 for adults, £70 for over 65s, £50 for Youth tickets and £195 for a family of two adults and two 12-17 year olds.

Children under 11 go free!

To book tickets visit https://folkeast.co.uk/tickets-4/

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