Thank You!
As we say Goodbye to Whitby Folk Week for another year, we would like to thank everyone who came and supported the festival, and the town. We look forward to inviting everyone back again next year - 22nd-28th August 2026 - but in the meantime will leave this years Artiste list for new friends to peruse. You can also still catch the Home Service concert with Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews and Marske Fishermen's Choir on FolkScape at https://www.folkscape.live/
Picture courtesy of Ben Potten
Specials
2025 special events included 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
2025 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
Social Dance and Ceilidhs
2025 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; Patrick 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
Storytellers
2025 Storytellers included Shonaleigh & simon Heywood; Taffy Thomas; Moe Keast; Ailsa Dixon; Ffion Phillips; Iris Skipworth
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Workshops
Many of our Artistes run 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
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Children and Youth
Daily programme of events for children and youth
And Much More....
Daily programme of presentations, interviews, sessions and singarounds lead by festival Artistes