Manchester Folk Festival is an urban folk festival. It takes place from 21-23 October 2021, in and around HOME and the city centre. Over the autumn weekend, they present an exhilarating range of events, with the spotlight on contemporary and traditional English folk music.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021
Events in this festival
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Festival Club (Thursday)
Thu 13 Oct
23.00
See three of the best emerging English folk acts in HOME, the vibrant hub venue of Manchester Folk...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Festival Club (Friday)
Fri 14 Oct
23.00
Book now for an exclusive Friday night event showcasing the best emerging English folk acts in HOME as...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Festival Club (Saturday)
Sat 15 Oct
23.00
Book now for exclusive Saturday night event showcasing the best emerging English folk acts in HOME as part...
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Events
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The English Fiddle Ensemble plus support Flo Perlin
Sat 23 Oct 2021
The English Fiddle Ensemble have the aim of allowing their audience to feel the bite and lift of...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The Futureheads plus support Native Harrow
Sat 23 Oct 2021, 19.30 at Royal Northern College of Music
This is a rare opportunity to experience a different side to the band, with the show featuring a...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ O’Hooley & Tidow plus support from John Kelly and Lunatraktors
Sat 23 Oct 2021
Performing together for over 10 years, much loved Yorkshire folk duo Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow come to...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Banter
Sat 23 Oct 2021
Banter are rooted in English traditional music but incorporate influences of pop, jazz, soul and big band sounds.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Sam Lee plus support Sarah Smout
Sat 23 Oct 2021, 14.00 at Royal Northern College of Music
Please note this event takes place at RNCM, 124 Oxford Road, M13 9RD. The RNCM requires proof of...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The Trials of Cato
Sat 23 Oct 2021
Formed in Beirut, BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe hailed The Trials of Cato as “one of the real...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The Gigspannner Big Band plus support MUZSIKÁS
Sat 23 Oct 2021
See the new six-piece line-up of the Gigspanner Big Band perform live at HOME. Characterised by riotous inventiveness,...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Sheelanagig
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Sheelanagig perform their array of foot-stomping folk tunes at HOME as part of Manchester Folk Festival 2021
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Sam Carter
Fri 22 Oct 2021, 21.00 at International Anthony Burgess Foundation
This Autumn Sam Carter embarks on a national tour to support the release of his 2020 album, Home...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The Breath plus special guests Hannah James & Toby Kuhn
Fri 22 Oct 2021
The Breath: guitarist Stuart McCallum & singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly. An unlikely pairing - she a folk singer, loud,...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Harbottle & Jonas
Fri 22 Oct 2021, 19:30 at Anthony Burgess Foundation
Dave Harbottle and Freya Jonas have evolved a compelling live signature sound blending concertina, harmonium, banjo, stomp box,...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening plus support from Pengetős Trio and The Last Inklings
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Musicians from Northumberland, Scotland and England invoke the dark, powerful, shamanic sounds of Ancient Northumbria and broadcast them...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Jesca Hoop plus support The Magpies
Fri 22 Oct 2021, 19.00 at Royal Northern College of Music
California-born, based in Manchester, Jesca Hoop a musician’s musician - her beautiful songs, rooted in the folk tradition...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Lady Nade
Thu 21 Oct 2021, 21:00 at Anthony Burgess Foundation
Hot on the heels of her UK Americana Award nomination Lady Nade is soaring into summer 2021 with...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Kabantu plus support Ötödik évszak
Thu 21 Oct 2021
The award winning Kabantu are a collective from Manchester who unravel new marriages of music from around the...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Luke Concannon
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Luke Concannon's first UK show in over 3 years. Luke’s mesmerising live shows are legendary, performing his ‘direct-from-the-heart’...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Jack Rutter
Thu 21 Oct 2021, 19:30 at Anthony Burgess Foundation
Jack Rutter is an outstanding young folk singer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist from West Yorkshire.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Spiers & Boden plus supports Janice Burns & Jon Doran and Dalinda
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Described by The Guardian as ‘the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene’, the multi award-winning duo of...
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Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ John Bramwell and The Full Harmonic Convergence plus supports: India Electric Co. and Ellie Gowers
Thu 21 Oct 2021, 19.00 at O2 Ritz Manchester
John Bramwell, is one of the UK's most unique, and talented singer-song writers who has been performing as...