Manchester Folk Festival is an annual urban folk festival.
HOME is the main hub of the festival with an exhilarating range of events, putting the spotlight on English folk, roots and acoustic music.
This is a festival of discovery. We have our roots firmly in the traditions of the past, and our eyes on the future. The festival will bring some of the biggest names in folk to Manchester, and it will introduce you to your future favourites.
Contemporary folk straddles genres, embraces different cultures and absorbs new influences. Manchester Folk Festival’s aim is to profile the incredible range of great music that is described as folk and bring you the best of the current scene.
Folk Festival Show Offer: Buy for 4 Manchester Folk Festival shows in 1 transaction and get 15% discount on ticket price.
Previously in this Festival
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Festival Club (Saturday)
See three of the best emerging English folk acts in HOME, the vibrant hub venue of Manchester Folk Festival. Full artist line-up to follow soon.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Group Listening
The pair are constantly seeking to subvert the minimalism of their sonic palette, creating a subtle but constant tension that every now and then catalyses’…
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Will Varley plus support
Singer-songwriter Will Varley has come a long way since his early days haunting the open mics of South London and busking around on The Underground
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ David Gibb’s Family Jukebox
Join David and his magical music Jukebox as he takes you on a trip through his hilarious and often surreal imagination, where wolves roam the…
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Festival Club (Friday)
See three of the best emerging English folk acts in HOME, the vibrant hub venue of Manchester Folk Festival. Full artist line-up to follow soon.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Fiona Bevan
Fiona Bevan is a singer and a hit songwriter who has worked with many huge artists including Kylie Minogue and Ed Sheeran.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Me & My Friends
Me and My Friends play soulful, poignant music with a beat, subtly incorporating vintage highlife and afrobeat grooves into elegant folk songwriting.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Lucy Farrell
Odd, unconventional melodies, poetic, sophisticated song-writing and the bewitching clarity of Kent-born, Canada-based Lucy Farrell’s voice are made elegant with sparse, careful accompaniment on tenor
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Hollie Rogers
Hollie Rogers is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who graduated English Folk Expo's Artist Mentorship Programme in 2020.
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Opal’s Comet
Mr Wilson’s presents Opal’s Comet - a vivid, animated artwork transported by a transient community. Their pilgrimage carries them along the UK’s inland waterways.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Festival Club (Thursday)
See three of the best emerging English folk acts in HOME, the vibrant hub venue of Manchester Folk Festival. Full artist line-up to follow soon.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Douglas Dare
Previously known as a piano player, for Douglas Dare's most recent album, 2020's Milkteeth, he picked up a new instrument, the autoharp, and as soon…
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Grace Petrie plus support
Protest singer Grace Petrie has an army of loyal fans across the alternative, LGBTQ+, folk, political and comedy scenes. Catch her performing in Manchester as…
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ Rachael Dadd
Wildly creative free-form songwriter Rachael Dadd performs at MFF ahead of releasing her brand new studio album ‘Kaleidoscope’.
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Manchester Folk Festival 2022/ The Jackie Oates Trio
Jackie Oates is an English Folk Musician, Singer, Performer and Educator. Jackie lives in Oxfordshire with her young family.