Ely Folk Festival
Celebrating its 40th year, this small friendly festival pairs a top folk line-up with real ale, morris displays and ceilidhs in the shadow of Ely's cathedral.
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"The original. Outdoor stages, Cherry Hinton Hall, world-class folk since 1965. The standard everything else is quietly measured against."
Cambridge Folk Festival
"Sawston Parish Council's annual community bonfire and fireworks display at Huckeridge Hill raises funds for local charities through a volunteer bucket collection, keeping this Cambridgeshire village tradition alive each autumn."
Sawston Village Bonfire and Fireworks
"A man hidden under five stone of twisted straw dances through a Fenland town leading molly and clog sides, before the bear is ceremonially burned the next day."
Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A supersize village fete run by 400 volunteers fills the lanes with daffodils, a working blacksmith's forge, Morris dancers, heavy-horse dray rides and live music for a springtime charity celebration."
Thriplow Daffodil Weekend
"Teams roll wooden cheeses down the old Great North Road in the village that gave the cheese its name."
Stilton Cheese Rolling
✦ Weird and Wonderful"An evening of concerts at the United Reformed Church is followed by a day of morris and clog dance winding through this riverside market town."
St Neots Folk Festival
"A solar-powered green gathering in the woodlands of a West Norfolk estate, small enough that you know your campsite neighbours by Saturday night."
Harlequin Fayre
"A century-old North Norfolk coastal carnival week packed with a raft race, sandcastle competitions, fancy dress, a fete, and a grand procession through town on Carnival Day."
Wells-next-the-Sea Carnival Week
"A free three-day community celebration that grew from a grassroots music idea into Suffolk's friendliest festival, with tribute acts, children's workshops, street food and a stage for all."
Saxmundham Community Fest
"Three stages in a Norfolk market-town meadow, run entirely by volunteers since 2008, with every surplus penny donated to local good causes."
Reepham Festival
"Three days of music, ale, art and family on a Suffolk estate, famed for its premieres and firsts and a reputation as one of the best-loved folk weekends in the country."
FolkEast
"A whole Suffolk market town turns its churches, pubs and castle bailey into stages for a long weekend of folk where most of the music is free and open to all."
Bungay Folk Festival