Tickets for ALL events are available from
Wessex Folk Festival Office

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By post:- Wessex Folk Festival Office, 79 Avalanche Road, Portland, DT5 2DL
Cheques payable to Wessex Folk Festival . Please enclose an SAE for return of your tickets.

By phone:- 01305 821611 or 01305 860277

Note: Unless shown otherwise, child tickets are half the adult price and are for children aged 7 to 14 years old. Children under 7 are free. Children must be accompanied at all times.

Last Night's Fun have an audience pinned to the wall with breathtaking virtuosity and creative arrangements, and falling off their chairs with a loveable line in patter that is their trademark. They embody a fire, passion and feel for traditional Irish music not seen since The Bothy Band and Planxty at their peak. The key to the unique Last Night’s Fun sound however, is the electric, spontaneous interplay between musicians very much at one with each other.

"They make you laugh. They make friends with you. They make you feel at home. THEN they pin you to the wall with blistering, soulful music..."
Roots around the World

Support: Pam Dentith, Nigel Canter and Paul Openshaw
At Hope United Reform Church, Trinity Street

Irish Set Dancing
Fri 6 June
7.30 pm

£3 adult
Children up to 14 and club members FREE

Two clubs one from Devon and one from Somerset are joining us this year. Irish Set Dancing is lots of fun and a fascinating dance style. If you're a beginner and want to learn, there will be plenty of enthusiastic people to show you the way.

At the Warehouse Theatre

Dick Gaughan
Sat 7 June
8 pm

£10.00 adult
£7.00child

With quotes like these what more can we say about this man except that we are thrilled to welcome him to the Wessex Folk Festival.

"He has one of the finest and most sublime voices on the planet, capable of capturing the heart with the most tender of traditional ballads in one moment and stirring the fire of the spirit with his uncompromising commentary on social injustice in the next . . . an unforgettable artist, able to change the way that you think and feel through the power of music" (Appleseed Recordings)

"how music from the gut really sounds" (The Guardian)

"In any style, on any stage, Gaughan is one of folk music's guitar geniuses as well as one of Scotland's finest singers" (Dirty Linen)

"You go home from a Dick Gaughan session feeling exhilarated, not just at the wonderful skills of the most potent singer ever to emerge from the Scottish folk-music revival, not just at the astonishingly fluent and explosively eloquent guitar playing, but by the sense of the stark exposition of wrong and the tremulously argued legitimacy of right. Even those who disagree profoundly with his view of life recognise the conviction and the supreme artistry." (Alastair Clark - Scots music journalist)

Support: No Fixed Abode
At Hope United Reform Church, Trinity Street

Workshop
Improvers' Bodhran
Sat. 7 June
10.30 am

£3.00

with Alan Evans

At Hope United Reform Church, Trinity Street (TBC)

with Paul Openshaw

At Hope United Reform Church, Trinity Street (TBC)