Dartmoor Folk Festival
The home of Dartmoor step dance and broom dance competitions, with ferret racing, two village pubs full of music and the late Bob Cann's broad Devon welcome.
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"Started as a horse show and still built around the grand parade of Shires, ponies and hounds, Woolsery Show is 120 years of North Devon rural life in a single summer Monday near the dramatic Clovelly coast."
Woolsery Show
"A traditional one-day agricultural show held at Kitley Lawns each summer, a much-loved fixture on the South Devon rural calendar."
Yealmpton Show
"A week of folk music, dance and song fills this Regency seaside town and its clifftop arena."
Sidmouth Folk Festival
"A traditional one-day agricultural show run by a registered charity at Umberleigh Barton Farm, celebrating rural North Devon life with livestock, horses, and a dog show."
North Devon Show
"Now in its third decade, every stall on the Quay is run by the Devon grower or cook who made the produce, rain, shine, snow or wind."
Kingsbridge Farmers' Market
"A traditional one-day show on the edge of Dartmoor with livestock, horticulture and terrier racing."
Chagford Show
"Father Time crowns the elected Queen of the Revel in this North Cornwall village on the Monday after August 12th, after which she leads a mounted procession to the Revel Ground for Cornish wrestling, fancy dress, dancing and feasting in a celebration that has marked the founding of the village since the medieval period."
Marhamchurch Revel
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A working farm field below the silhouette of Corfe Castle. Five stages, four days, and the particular quiet of the Dorset hills when the music stops between sets."
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival
"A Bank Holiday town takeover with an open-air FAR Stage, Betjeman Sessions, pub music and street entertainment all within walking distance in Wadebridge."
Cornwall Folk Festival
"Free live folk, shanty singing and ceilidh dancing tumble along the seafront of a Jurassic Coast town, anchored by headline concerts at the Marine Theatre."
Lyme Folk Weekend
"A week of music, dance and song for adults of all abilities at England's national centre for folk arts, tucked into a manor in the Quantock Hills."
Halsway Folk Summer School
"Vintage biplanes drone overhead while hard driving bluegrass and old time pickers jam around a bonfire on one of the quirkiest festival fields in the country."
Didmarton Bluegrass Festival