Specials
This years special events include Martin Woodford presenting "Hull Trawling: when men were men and women changed the world", Pete Morton's "The Ghost of the Sailor's Tallking Blues", Shonaleigh & Simon Heywood "The Tower of Bagel", Roy Palmer Lecture 2025 presented by Jon Boden, the 10th Annual Cliff Bairstow Jig Competition, and a series of concerts featuring Whitby Folk Week Artistes through the decades from the mid sixties to the present day.
Concerts
Artistes include Martin & Eliza Carthy; Home Service; Banter; Melrose Quartet; Granny’s Attic; London Lassies; Sherburn Bartley Sanders; Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne; Enda Kenny; Sisters Unlimited; Alistair Anderson; Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones; Crows; Culverake; ; The Davenports; Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews; John Kirkpatrick; Macdara Yeates; Janice Burns & Jon Doran; Patakas; Wynton Moore; Mossy Christian; The Wilsons
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Social Dance and Ceilidhs
Bands and Callers include Alex Cumming & Audrey Jaber; Annabel & Nigel Sharp; Banter; Bob Morgan; Brown Boots Boogie Band; Charlie Turner; Flowers & Frolics; Ian Nichols; Jerry O'Reilly & Rosie Davis; John Brown; Lynne Render; Martin Clarke; Martyn Harvey; Melrose Quintet; Mollie Koenigsberger & Ali Messer; Oakstone; Trio; Out of Hand; Paddy Rose; Phillip and Fran; Sam Tetley Smith; Threepenny Bit; Trinculo; Trip Hazard
Dance Display Teams
Daily dance displays at the Bandstand, Captain Cooks & Dock End, plus a Dance Extravaganza at the Whitby Spa Pavilion on Sunday afternoon
Dance Teams
Storytellers
Including Shonaleigh & simon Heywood; Taffy Thomas; Moe Keast; Ailsa Dixon; Ffion Phillips; Iris Skipworth
Workshops
Many of our Artistes will be running workshops across a wide variety of music, song and dance for beginners to advanced, some being a one off and others a series across the week culminating in a workshop showcase on the Friday
Children and Youth
Daily programme of events for children of all ages, and Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson leading our Yoof Club
And Much More....
Daily programme of presentations, interviews, sessions and singarounds lead by festival Artistes