NEWS: Allen Valleys Folk Festival

After a highly successful first year, the North Pennines will once again be home to some of the UK’s most celebrated folk stars, as Allen Valleys Folk Festival takes place from Friday 2^nd until Sunday 4^th October at venues across Allendale.

Emerging musical talent takes pride of place on a line-up which also includes workshops, dancers, guided walks and much more. Musical entertainment comes from alt. bluegrass act The Coal Porters, perennial gypsy jazz swingers Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra, celebrated fiddle player Tom McConville, inventive performer Kate In The Kettle, dynamic sextet Patch & The Giant, the wry humour of RM Hubbert, genre-defying madness of Polly & The Billets Doux and contemporary folk group The Will Pound Band, among many more. Add the festival’s stunning location in the heart of rural Northumberland to a fantastic bill of inventive contemporary and traditional folk music, and you’ve got a corker of a festival.

Allen Valleys Folk Festival takes place at various locations in Allendale from Friday 2^nd until Sunday 4^th October.