Ickwell May Day
One of England's oldest continuous May Day traditions, traced to 1561, featuring a half-mile procession from Northill, a decorated hoop competition, Morris dancing, and the crowning of a May Queen on Ickwell Green.
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"Every other August Bank Holiday since 2000, this compact Bedfordshire market town throws a four-night community extravaganza of music, food and outdoor entertainment that the whole village runs."
Party on Potton Big Weekend
"One of Bedfordshire's most traditional village shows held in St Mary's Field, with competitive classes from flower arranging to baking, a craft fair and a barn dance that fills the marquee all evening."
Potton Show
"Across 400 acres at Old Warden Park, showman's engines power the fairground after dark beneath the Victorian house of the Shuttleworth Collection."
Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre
"An annual procession of floats, walking groups and classic vehicles travelling from Eaton Bray through Edlesborough to the village green, themed around Countries of the World in 2026."
St Mary's Village Carnival
"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
"Sea shanty crews from across Britain take over five coastal venues, turning the harbour lanes of a tiny North Norfolk village into a roving maritime singalong all weekend."
Brancaster Staithe Sea Shanty Festival
"A small but perfectly formed music festival with a heart of folk spread across barns and an orchard on a working farm on the wild North Norfolk coast."
Deepdale Festival
"On the first of October in this small Hertfordshire village, the leaves from Church Lane are swept onto the road so that an elderly man from the parish can roll down the lane and the children can shout after him, a custom so old and so eccentric that even the villagers are not entirely sure what it commemorates."
Braughing Old Man's Day
✦ Weird and Wonderful"The whole of the old seaport town rings with hearty singing as shanty crews from around the world fill pubs, boats and historic buildings with songs of the sea."
Harwich International Shanty Festival