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Midsummer music festival set in a secret walled garden. 12th - 15th June 2025
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Beardy Folk Festival is a carefully crafted, Midsummer music weekend set in a secret walled garden, boasting a brilliant line up of contemporary, traditional, roots, folk & world music, street food, real ale, cider and cocktail bars, workshops, camping, glamping and family activities.

18/11/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're delighted to welcome back the hilarious Dan The Hat to Beardy Folk Festival 2025. He'll be entertaining audiences of all ages on the Acoustic Stage throughout the weekend ❤️
Dan the Hat - Comedian & Juggler - UK

Dan has performed all over the world on stages, streets and festivals for the last 20 years. His quick wit and 'improv' silliness is a sure fire hit with any audience!

Let Dan take you on a frenzied journey of skills and comedy. Loads of audience interaction with a mixture of amazing stunts and frenzied ‘Off the Wall’ improv comedy. This is a family show that’s not to be missed!

Check out his video link below 👇
https://youtu.be/e8oyZxamkTc?si=9TI8bk2IS4X8VRLm

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

15/11/2024

🔥 Confirmed 🔥 We're delighted to welcome back one of the great legends of British folk music, Steve Tilston to our Acoustic Stage on Saturday 14th June 2025 ❤️

He'll be joining us for "An Audience With Steve Tilston", celebrating his incredible career with a very special collection of songs and stories from the last 50 years.

Steve is one of our most celebrated song-smiths, widely recognised within the world of folk and contemporary music. His words, arrangements and subtle, quite superb guitar playing, could be no one else.

He's made guest appearances on 'Later with Jools Holland' and the BBC Four 'Songwriters Circle' plus he received a BBC2 Folk Award for 'Best Original Song'.

Steve’s “lost” letter from John Lennon inspired the Hollywood movie 'Danny Collins' starring Al Pacino in the title role.

“The more you listen, the more there is to discover.”
Bob Harris

"Steve Tilston, singer songwriter and exquisite guitarist… is hard on the heels of Richard Thompson in the perennially underrated stakes."
Q Magazine

“…a fine and thoughtful songwriter and singer and a remarkable guitarist.”
**** The Guardian

Check out his video links below 👇

'Oil and Water' - Later with Jools Holland
https://youtu.be/O6XIEFtm_Xo?si=M84xTfKEEp6y1DrC

'The Slips, Jiggs and Reels'
https://youtu.be/yz8rzuguk0c?si=2H9aKN_8EdgygTyL

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

11/11/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Hase Waits are playing our Acoustic Stage at Beardy Folk Festival on Friday 13th June 2025 ❤️

Hase Waits are an innovative folk music group bridging the gap between tradition and modernity through their enchanting blend of instrumental music with Celtic vibes.

Born out of two sisters, a friend and a shared passion for preserving and revitalising traditional music, they have embarked on a musical journey to bring reels, jigs and waltzes to a contemporary audience. Along with their own compositions, the group captivates audiences with their infectious energy, beautiful harmonies, atypical instrumentation and a profound respect for the musical heritage they embody.

Hase Waits combines the talents of;

Heather Thomas (Flute/Low Whistle/High Whistle/Great Highland Bagpipes/Vocals)

Hannah Bainton (Flute/Melodeon/Low Whistle/High Whistle/Great Highland Bagpipes/Piano/Vocals)

James Thomas (Guitar/Hurdy-Gurdy/Great Highland Bagpipes/Bouzouki)

They are often joined on stage by:

Philip Ball (Fiddle/Vocals)
Luke Hirst (Bass Guitar)
Gary Hammond (Percussion)

Check out their video link below 👇

The Ramblin' Rover
https://youtu.be/tZaBLgncfm0?si=Ga38EAXWyrItK36w

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

08/11/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Damien Nolan is playing our Acoustic Stage on the opening night at Beardy Folk Festival 2025 - Thursday 12th June ❤️

In a career spanning two decades, Damien Nolan has worked as a session guitarist with artists such as Sting, Pete Townshend, Katie Melua, Cynthia Erivo, Skunk Anansie and Jacob Banks playing at venues such as Wembley Stadium, Royal Albert Hall, Radio 1 Live Lounge and Glastonbury Festival.

He's also a solo artist playing finger style originals and covers, using his acoustic guitar as a drum kit and his loop pedals to deliver an enthralling live show.

Check out his video links below 👇

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana Acoustic Cover
https://youtu.be/Oq-LUq7oltI?si=2WQjs-fUfzwPANlh

Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder Acoustic Cover
https://youtu.be/aFC5wLsPOtI?si=NWUtYfvRNmadn55K

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

07/11/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Piskey Led are playing the opening night at Beardy Folk Festival '25 on Thursday 12th June ❤️

Crafting tunes inspired by folk traditions from Cape Cornwall to Carrickfergus and everywhere in-between.

Piskey Led are four young musicians who formed in Cardiff in late 2021; they showcase a highly entertaining and absorbing mixture of original and traditional music, influenced by the folk traditions of Cornwall, Northern England and Ireland. The personnel are Cornish woman Katie Lower on flute, whistles and piano, Lancastrian Josh Goodey on double bass, harmonium and mandocello and two Ulstermen, guitarist James Bower and Chris Mercer on mandolin, bouzouki, harmonicas and bodhrán.

Piskey Led’s debut album is available on all streaming platforms, and has received airtime across the UK and North America, on shows such as BBC Celtic Heartbeat, Radio Wigwam, Blues and Roots Radio, BGFM, plus the Irish & Celtic Music and Is This Thing On? podcasts.

‘This Piskey Led album is a most enjoyable gathering of songs and tunes, drawn together by a quartet with a shared love of Celtic music and tradition. With an eclectic instrumental line-up, and beautifully matched four-part vocal harmonies, this is a folk album that lets you have both cake and cream tea, and eat them both’
-David Auckland, FATEA

Check out their video links below 👇

Buncrana Train
https://youtu.be/srsxqwJxcjM?si=AKZPzmjhanWXHL8o

Hwibanowl Nowydh
https://youtu.be/rIL10_4HEKo?si=ZnyUXK700LTv8vtf

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

06/11/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Man The Lifeboats are headlining our Main Stage on Thursday 12th June at Beardy Folk Festival 2025 ❤️

Man The Lifeboats began life in a shanty-punk folk mosh pit in 2016. Skinny Lister and Holy Moly & The Crackers were the two bands that lit the fire and blew the roof of the Garage that night.

Fast forward 8 years and over 100 gigs later, the band are ploughing their full-throttle folked-up furrow on the festival circuit, drawing comparisons to Bellowhead, Waterboys, Oysterband, the Levellers, and those folk-punk heroes the Pogues.

The songs are raucous, upbeat, lyrical and driving. Traditional tunes are dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age, songs are crafted with big choruses that tell stories. Songs with straight-up lyrics, pounding bass lines, furious banjo and fiddle melodies and stomping beats, Man The Lifeboats have cultivated a sound that would not be out of place at a party at the end of the world.

Tonic for these troubled times...

"9/10. A stomping musical cocktail of alchemic proportions"
Outline Magazine

"Think The Pogues in overdrive with the breath of the Dropkick Murphys down their necks"
Turn Up The Volume

“Excellent album, full of high-octane folk and dark rumination”
Americana UK

Check out their video links below 👇

Somerstown
https://youtu.be/_EvTetkDYnk?si=yB-yUbbNE9zl7SOv

Born Drunk
https://youtu.be/iPijvQBekR4?si=55TuMcXtqodaL31B

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

05/11/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Wet The Tea are opening our Main Stage on Sunday 15th June at Beardy Folk 2025 ❤️

Along with traditional Irish music roots, many other musical influences are blended into this band fronted by singer-songwriter and musician Andy Connally (Vocals, Flute, Whistles, Guitar, Piano, Bouzouki). Andy Connally Music

Bluegrass, English folk, and modern elements are all thrown into the mix, making the songs and tune sets quite unique. Original, self-penned songs make up the majority of the band's material, whilst Andy takes you through the journey of how each of the songs he has written came to be. Andy's words offer an insight into his life experiences, passions, and vulnerabilities with a feeling of familiarity and honesty.

An all new line up see's Andy joined by Clare Smith (Fiddle, Cello, Vocals) and Adam Beresford-Browne (Guitar, Mandolin). Andy and Clare also write musical pieces that are powerfully delicate and intriguing. Mixed with some traditional Irish/Scottish/English tune sets and songs, Wet The Tea is able to demonstrate a high level of musicianship, performance, and flair that connects with people on many different levels. Expect foot-tapping, sing-along, story telling songs and tunes of love, joy, sadness, honesty and hope.

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

04/11/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Notorious J.I.G are playing Beardy Folk '25 on Sunday 15th June 👀

Join us for our first ever official After Party (end of the show show 🤩) in the Acoustic Tent at the top of the Walled Garden. A slightly earlier finish on the Sunday Main Stage means we can play out 2025 with this incredible ceilidh band ❤️

Notorious J.I.G is the brainchild of electronica aficionados, trad tune devotees and ceilidh dance cognoscenti. Mixing the hottest breaks from old school and modern hip hop, disco and funk with blistering traditional tunes on fiddle and accordion.

Absolutely no experience is necessary; MC Dan will walk you through and “call” the dances, giving everyone the confidence to get up and bust some moves!

👉 Of course, you don't have to join in the dances. Feel free to chill out and treat yourself to the last offerings of festival food and beer 😋

Notorious J.I.G are 👇

Jared Jackson - beats, loops, guitar
The band's resident technical wizard, creator of phat bass lines, gnarly beats and guitar chops.

Caitriona Leach - fiddle
Shreds that fiddle like she's trying to start a fire - smoking hot tunes!

Harriet Bartlett - piano accordion
Looks like butter wouldn't melt while she drops some mean melodies from the squeeze-machine.

Dan Old - caller
MC Dan: chief showman and guaranteed to keep you on your feet all night long.

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

WEEKEND TICKETS & CAMPING ✅
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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

30/10/2024

We're very excited to have made the shortlist (again) for BEST SMALL FESTIVAL at the UK Festival Awards 2024 🏆

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who voted for us 😍

We'd love to finally win the award after everything we've managed to achieve over the last few years ❤️

Limited tickets are available to Beardy Folk Festival 2025 👇

https://www.beardyfolkfestival.co.uk/2025-tickets

As always we've put together an incredible line up of established festival favourites alongside exciting breakthrough artists 🤩

The final few artists will be announced next week.

24/10/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Foreign Affairs are playing our Acoustic Stage at Beardy Folk Festival on Sunday 15th June 2025 ❤️

Foreign Affairs is the musical collaboration of brothers Adam and Lawrence Purnell. In December 2018 they released their first EP 'The Old Fire Station' which received widespread critical acclaim and was followed by a 22 date European tour with Grammy nominated artist Larkin Poe.

The duo signed their first publishing deal to Peer Music in October 2019 and have released a host of new music which has garnered support and national radio play from BBC Radio 2 (Dermot O’Leary and Bob Harris) as well as several Spotify editorial playlists.

Their enigmatic live show has toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe, with several appearances at prestigious festivals and a run of UK sold out headlines.

"Serving up a summer anthem filled with slick guitars and catchy lyrics is brother duo Foreign Affairs with their new single 'Make a Move'. We see the duo deliver yet another hit single as they ride the rock ’n’ roll production, intertwining elements of old school blues with feverish energy.”
Wonderland Magazine

“Dynamic roots songwriting, their subtle Americana has won fans across the land, with their simple but strikingly melodic songwriting.”
CLASH

Check out their video links below 👇

'Chained To Love'
https://youtu.be/DXJbDCc5f5g?si=0mGP-iwyYPXHZeJ2

'Make A Move'
https://youtu.be/iRrrdqbjXXc?si=bWk-Gc29VT5HgcAk

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

WEEKEND TICKETS & CAMPING ✅
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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

23/10/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Wise Woman are playing the Main Stage at Beardy Folk Festival 2025 on Friday 13th June ❤️ Wise Woman

Blending ancient folk traditions with a bold contemporary flair, Wise Woman bring a heady collision of lush folk harmonies, cinematic strings and 90's girl power to any stage they set foot on.

Formed in the darkness of a pandemic winter, the group’s “startling and shimmering” (Folk Wales) songwriting blend of folk, jazz, and musical theatre sounds, has seen them enchant audiences far and wide, from guesting on Radio 3’ In Tune, to opening for Radio 2 Folk Award Winners The Young Uns, to festivals including Secret Garden Party, FolkEast and Celtic Connections.

With a repertoire that spans traditional ballads to original compositions on subjects as diverse as fenland witches to drag artists, their powerful music and captivating storytelling transports audiences through a unique and transformative musical experience. Released after a successful fan-driven Crowdfunder, their new single Home Safe (April 2024), is a percussion filled celebration of friendship and body empowerment for all.

Wise Woman are Anna Pool, Lydia Bell, Charlotte Vaughan & Maddie Cutter.

“You guys absolutely rock,” - BBC Radio 3

"Ridiculously perfect harmonies" - BBC Leeds

Check out their video links below 👇

Home Safe
https://youtu.be/KtCfaWolYeY?si=xyZvlnhSKLbUhGuI

Fen Woman
https://youtu.be/KfAdqD5ji1Q?si=_bNvTiAD1xvoIjye

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

WEEKEND TICKETS & CAMPING ✅
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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

18/10/2024

🔥 LAST DAY TO VOTE 🔥 You have until midnight tonight, Friday 18th October, to place your votes. We really need to see those fingers folks! 👇😜

Very excited to be nominated for 2️⃣ awards at the UK Festival Awards 2024 🏆🏆

➡️ Best Small Festival 🥇
➡️ The Grassroots Festival Award 🥇

We'd love to win an award after everything we've managed to achieve over the last few years ❤️

It only takes a minute...

Just follow the link below and place a vote for us in BOTH categories please 🙌

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UKFA24

➡️ Best Small Festival 🥇
➡️ The Grassroots Festival Award 🥇

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17/10/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce The Cain Pit are playing the Main Stage at Beardy Folk Festival 2025 on Saturday 14th June 🤩

The Cain Pit are a 'Punkgrass' quintet from Norfolk. Originally forming as a studio project, cousins and founding members Daryl Blyth (vocals, double bass) and Scott Blyth (guitar) decided to try and make the project a real-life band based on interest from demos they’d shared. After a year of stops and starts, Scott and Daryl managed to w**d out the most suitable hillbilly punks in the area: Isaac Crass (banjo), Joe Halliday (acoustic guitar and harmonica) and Jamie Tritton (drums).

The Cain Pit like to think they bridge a gap somewhere between a bluegrass band and a millennial punk rock band, jumping off said bridge and paddling in some sort of roots-rockabilly-punk primordial soup, emerging to sing sugar-coated melodies with crunchy bitter centers. You can expect lightning fast banjo pickin’, slap double bass, and double time drums that bathe alongside the caress of distortion and percussive acoustic guitar thacking. Sing-a-long, stomp your foot and raise your whiskey for The Cain Pit!

“Thunderously good fun! The Cain Pit have the makings of a new live favourite with songs like ‘Roses’ going down like that fifth shot of whiskey at your best friends wedding!” - Full Pelt

Check out their video links below 👇

'Roses'
https://youtu.be/LmsOWcN6iW4?si=3-DZakRdTpqZAcer

'I Just Thought You Should Know '
https://youtu.be/-s_b69fs360?si=cG-y41wZrK2688g5

'Alder'
https://youtu.be/M8qSRlMzjic?si=MlTp0_9RP4HJ-Clf

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

16/10/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce The Ciderhouse Rebellion with Molly Donnery are playing the Main Stage at Beardy Folk 2025 on Saturday 14th June ❤️

Masters of improvisation The Ciderhouse Rebellion (accordionist Murray Grainger and fiddle player Adam Summerhayes) are joined by stellar Irish singer Molly Donnery (The Haar).

Together they cast their evocative magic over songs born of tradition. Their hugely exciting collaboration showcases undeniable talent with electrifying performances. Already acclaimed in their own rights, the trio draw listeners into the very heart of the music with each performance being uniquely magical in its improvisatory focus.

With exquisite playing from Summerhayes and Grainger, Molly Donnery’s vocals have found a creative match that is truly spellbinding - as their live shows demonstrate. Now is the perfect time to witness their extraordinary creativity.

Their debut album came out Spring 2024 alongside national and international tours.

“A voice that encourages ever more attentive listening as you strive to catch every nuance of her impeccable delivery” - FRUK

“I became utterly bewitched by the beauty of what Summerhayes and Grainger had created. It could justifiably be described as a folk symphony, possessing cyclical completeness yet creating a form that is, at once, both elemental and pastoral”- FATEA

“....some of the most startling and original music you will ever encounter. Compelling, exciting and utterly original” - Phil Beer, Show Of Hands

Check out their video links below 👇

Mo Bhuachaillin Donn
https://youtu.be/MZYIa7FjbOQ?si=-I2rsOyUc4Ej1iFw

The Town Of Ballybay
https://youtu.be/yGNO9xsqbZQ?si=vtMR9cJfpf4UITPo

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

15/10/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Common Culture are playing the Beardy Folk Main Stage on Friday 13th June 2025 ❤️

Common Culture are a rousing fiddle driven alternative folk band from Barnsley. Fusing traditional and contemporary elements with three-part harmonies, into an upbeat and energetic sound. The gang’s songs are full of catchy hooks, infectious rhythms and a party spirit.

Dan Watson (vocals, guitar) turned to Lizzie Morris (fiddle and vocals) whom he’d regularly performed with as a duo at folk clubs around Yorkshire and garnered a plan to flip their energetic acoustic songs on the head. Armed with a set of crowd-pleasers, they set out to push forwards and create a new sound with a full band. The style, loosely taking inspiration from folk and alternative musicians through the ages, from Frank Turner to Richard Thompson.

Reaching out to Chris Reed (drums) and Evie
Smith (bass, vocals) felt like getting the perfect people to complete the line up. The band continue to make waves across the indie rock and folk scenes.

“An exciting up and coming band to watch!” - Kate Rusby

“A formidable force in the realm of alternative folk music” - Pure M Zine

Check out their video links below 👇

The Travelling Life
https://youtu.be/ctvntI9pwVg?si=PnUmM5ds9sTLAa7X

Wash Away The Day
https://youtu.be/-b7URRFajNA?si=dq9t6rbMoC7PP1zc

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

WEEKEND TICKETS & CAMPING ✅
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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

14/10/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce the brilliant Rachel Hill is playing our Acoustic Stage at Beardy Folk 2025 on Saturday 14th June ❤️ Rachel Hill Music

Rachel Hill is an acclaimed folk-inspired singer-songwriter celebrated for her captivating live performances and evocative songwriting. Revered for her mastery of live vocal looping, Rachel's vocals have been lauded as "gorgeous, commanding and enchanting" (Indie Top 39). Influenced by artists including Paris Paloma and Lizzy McAlpine, Rachel's music resonates with listeners on a deep emotional level.

From a young age, Rachel has lived and breathed music, training as a classical soprano and channelling her experiences into songwriting from the age of 12. She later studied music at the University of Cambridge before completing a masters in Commercial Songwriting and Production. She is now a full-time freelance artist, songwriter, and producer. The last year has seen Rachel complete her second international tour as well as performing in several UK festivals. Having amassed nearly 250k Spotify streams in the last year, Rachel is a prolific, driven and endlessly evolving artist with a promising future ahead of her.

Check out her video links below 👇

You Stop The Light Going Out
https://youtu.be/DV5BPHBCUBs?si=1wneLVVulE_lrgJB

Creep (Radiohead) Loop Pedal Cover
https://youtu.be/jMQ0THWtXhg?si=5_EdN556DLHpTV1s

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

WEEKEND TICKETS & CAMPING ✅
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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

10/10/2024

🔥 CONFIRMED 🔥 We're excited to announce BLINO is playing our Acoustic Stage at Beardy Folk 2025 on Friday 13th June ❤️

BLINO [Blee-no} is a Welsh singer-songwriter melding genuine, thoughtful lyrics with a soulful, dynamic duet between voice and guitar to paint stories, pull heart strings and connect.

Check out his video link below 👇

https://youtu.be/bSeNw99uHhQ?si=vHkBc7d_2cvdDCIG

Let's fill the walled garden and celebrate our 8th year together 🥰

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https://www.beardyfolkfestival.co.uk/2025-tickets

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https://www.beardyfolkfestival.co.uk/2025-tickets

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Beardy Folk Festival
12th to 15th June 2025
Hopton Court Estate
Shropshire

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Hopton Court
Kidderminster
DY140EF

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http://www.beardyfolkfestival.co.uk/

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