Saturday, 31st July @ 1PM-7:30PM

Sunday, 1st August @ 1PM-6PM

Home Stage and The Harbour Room are happy to celebrate the best of British Folk and Shanty music, in a celebration of the return of live music events to the town.

Guests acts for the Folk, Shanty & Beer Festival 2021 include Peter Sanpher and Steve Evans, Maddy Leedham of The Leedham Sisters, The Browns, Tony Purdy, The Fried Pirates, Old Wired Rovers, David Bull, Kevin Green, Diana Rackham, Sarah Smith, The Webburn Webunch, Morris Dancers, Jam Share and more…

Celebrate live music. 20 acts over 2 days.

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Special Guest: Martin Carthy LIVE & Q&A

We are beyond excited to announce that special guest Martin Carthy will join us LIVE on the Saturday, 31st July from 8PM.

Be sure not to miss him by purchasing your ticket here, for only £5 pp.

Lifetime Achievement Award – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014

For more than 50 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music's greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it.

Trailblazing musical partnerships with, amongst others, Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick and his award-winning wife (Norma Waterson) and daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in more than 40 albums, but Martin has only recorded 10 solo albums, of which the much anticipated Waiting for Angels (Topic TSCD527) was the latest. Whether in the folk clubs (which he continues to champion), on the concert stage or making TV appearances (he was the subject of the acclaimed `Originals' music documentary strand on BBC 2) - there are few roles that Martin Carthy hasn't played.

He's a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position. Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.

“Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector and editor of them all”

— Q Magazine

“Carthy is the master of the ballad of substance, songs that tell stories, whether they are traditional, his own or from contemporary writers.”

— The Telegraph