The Wessex Folk Festival is pleased to announce the launch of a FREE Musical Folk Song Contest for young Musicians and Singers. To apply and read about what you have to do to WIN a Professional Studio session plus the chance to appear On Stage at this years Festival

Wessex Folk Festival 2025

WOW ….. What a Festival!!!

Just to say for those who came and supported the Free Wessex Folk Festival a BIG thank you!!

Great Weather at the picturesque Weymouth Harbourside and Hope Square with the best Music and Morris sides entertaining. Delicious food at the New Festival Food Court. Great Traders of course, and Wonderful Sessions and workshops.

Come and join us in 2026 and keep watch on the Website or better still sign up for the newsletter.

The famous Free Wessex Folk Festival has been established for the past 20 years. It is one of the biggest free festivals in the UK, held on the picturesque Harbourside in Weymouth.

The weekend starts with ‘warm up’ sessions in the harbourside pubs on the Friday afternoon and evening, where people met up with friends, old and new, to ‘kick off’ the Festival atmosphere.

There will be 2 Stages at the Festival, the Main one in Hope square and the Harbourside Stage both featuring a great selection of acts throughout the weekend. Many of them local Musicians.

There will be Morris dancing throughout the weekend, along the harbourside, workshops where you could learn musical things, and lots of wonderful trade stalls selling food, drink, clothes, gifts, jewellery, keepsakes – all with that ‘folky vibe’. The pubs continue with their great music sessions in the afternoons and evenings. We welcome you all to next years Wessex Folk Festival 2026.