"Five days of roots and folk music in the Welsh hills, where the campfire matters as much as the stage and the stars are genuinely good."

Fire in the Mountain

"A long-running city folk weekend that fills the pubs with song, and by Saturday evening spills, quietly, into the streets."

St Albans Folk Festival

"A folk festival in a Norfolk field. The name is the description. Exactly what it sounds like, which is exactly what you want."

Folk in a Field

"The largest free nautical music festival in Europe. The whole harbour town sings, in pubs and on quaysides, all weekend long."

Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival

"Folk music at a ruined 13th-century castle on the Gower peninsula, with the estuary below and the sky doing something remarkable above."

Gower Folk Festival

"A small Highland village fills with musicians every June. The mountains are the backdrop and the sessions go late."

Killin Music Fest

"An ancient Cinque Port fills with folk music and real ale across 70+ acts in pubs, marquees and open spaces. The 14th year, and the tradition is now its own tradition."

Sandwich Folk & Ale Festival

"Music, comedy, ideas and long-table dinners in the Warwickshire countryside. A festival for people who want the conversation as much as the line-up."

Also Festival

"A small, beloved folk festival on a Mendip village green a thousand feet up, old sheep fair country, with the bring your own chair intimacy the big festivals lost years ago."

Priddy Folk Festival

"Folk and roots music in the grounds of a Jacobean country house. The setting does most of the work; the line-up does the rest."

Folk by the Oak

"Three days of free music on the Kent seafront: shanties, folk songs, workshops, jamming sessions and market stalls rolling across a summer weekend by the North Sea."

Herne Bay Folk Festival

"The original. Outdoor stages, Cherry Hinton Hall, world-class folk since 1965. The standard everything else is quietly measured against."

Cambridge Folk Festival

"Eight days, 400 events, 20 venues across a Kentish coastal town. Concerts, ceilidhs, a parade and over 160 free events. The kind of week that makes a modest seaside town briefly essential."

Broadstairs Folk Week

"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

"The folk family behind sixty years of Towersey start again on the Claydon Estate, the same dances and singarounds in a new Buckinghamshire field."

Found Festival

"Three days of morris sides, ceilidh and song in a Herefordshire market town surrounded by hop yards and cider orchards."

Bromyard Folk Festival

"Four days of traditional music on an Hebridean island reachable only by ferry, workshops, open sessions, ceilidhs in the island hall, and the Atlantic on all four sides."

Ceol Cholasa: Colonsay Folk Festival

"Three days in a Black Isle village near Inverness where the sessions run late and the Moray Firth catches the September light outside, a small Highland folk festival doing exactly what it promised."

Ardersier Folk Festival

"A man encased head to toe in sticky burrs walks the town for nine hours, a fertility custom of unknown but ancient origin."

Burryman's Parade

"At Hogmanay locals swing flaming wire cages of fire over their heads down the High Street to burn away the old year."

Stonehaven Fireball Ceremony

"A burning barrel of tar is carried around this Moray fishing village to mark the old new year, a Pictish-era survival."

Burning of the Clavie

"Local children race round the parish church swinging paper balls on string to chase away winter."

Whuppity Scoorie

"A Welsh-language music festival filling the squares of this stone-built Snowdonia town."

Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau

"A week of traditional music and song under the Mourne Mountains by Carlingford Lough."

Fiddler's Green International Festival

"Black-faced clog dancers with wooden discs dance the length of this Pennine town every Easter Saturday."

Britannia Coco-nut Dancers

"A King clad entirely in flowers rides through the Peak District village before his garland is hoisted up the church tower."

Castleton Garland Day

"Couples in top hats and gowns dance the Furry Dance in and out of houses to welcome spring to this Cornish town."

Helston Flora Day

"A boat-shaped horse decked in ribbons tours the town and harbour from May eve, accompanied by drums."

Minehead Hobby Horse

"A masked hobby horse and grenadiers hunt a costumed Earl through the village before casting him into the sea."

Hunting of the Earl of Rone

"An effigy is carried through the Wensleydale village to a rhyme before being burned, origins long lost."

Burning of Old Bartle

"A week of folk music, dance and song fills this Regency seaside town and its clifftop arena."

Sidmouth Folk Festival

"Fairport Convention host a vast folk-rock reunion in a field beside this Oxfordshire canal village each August."

Fairport's Cropredy Convention

"One of the largest Hogmanay bonfires in Scotland, lit in the heart of this Borders town every New Year's Eve."

Biggar Bonfire