Folk Music Festivals in Wales
Welsh festivals are lively, and justifably famous for their singing. There aren't as many festivals in Wales as we'd like, but they are all great music festivals.
The list has been updated for 2025, and we will update it regularly. Remember, we can't check every ticket price, unfortunately, as some are not listed until closer to the event, so we advise you to check the prices yourself.
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Wales Harp Festival - 15th Apr 2025 - Galeri Arts Centre, Caernarfon, Gwynedd
The Wales Harp Festival offers an excellent opportunity to learn, participate and enjoy Harp music in one of the most beautiful regions of the UK where nature and historic architecture provide the best experiences for any tourist. Why not combine this opportunity to visit the harp festival with exploring our region?
There will be concerts, competitions, master-classes, lectures, fun classes for absolute beginners, harp exhibitions and much more.
Not a folk festival in the traditional sense, but as usual we like to include something a bit different.
Location: Galeri Arts Centre, Caernarfon
Date: Tuesday 15th April 2025 for 2 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available Individual event tickets
Contact for info: office@walesharpfestival.co.uk
Website: walesharpfestival.co.uk/
County: Gwynedd
Country: Wales
Focus Wales - 8th May 2025 - Wrexham, Wrexham County
Not specifically a folk festival.
This regular event was established to provide the annual new music showcase event for the Welsh Music Industry. Our core work centres around the delivery of our international multi-venue showcase festival taking place in Wrexham each year, which places the music industry spotlight firmly on the emerging talent that Wales has to offer the world, alongside a selection of the best new acts from across the globe.
It is showcasing over 250 acts, so you could browse through the lists and might find some folk music talent. We are hoping we are correct in this.
Location: Wrexham
Date: Thursday 8th May 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £75
Also available Individual event tickets too
Contact for info: info@focuswales.com
Website: focuswales.com
County: Wrexham County
Country: Wales
Tredegar House Folk Festival - 9th May 2025 - Tredegar House, Newport, NP10 8YW, Gwent
The festival celebrates the best in international folk music and dance. OVer 30 years of music, it attracts big-name music performers and dance troupes from across the UK and Europe. Set in the National Trust grounds of Tredegar House stately home, there are also ceilidhs, open mics, workshops, farmers' market and a CAMRA real ale bar.
Location: Tredegar House, Newport, NP10 8YW
Date: Friday 9th May 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £70
Also available Day tickets at £25
Contact for info: susieoates135@hotmail.com
Website: www.tredegarhousefestival.org.uk/
County: Gwent
Country: Wales
Devauden Festival - 23rd May 2025 - Devauden, Monmouthshire
A mixed festival, at previous events there was a strong bias for folk music on the Friday. so take a look closer to the date to see if this happens this year.
Workshops, Battle of the Bands, local brews, family entertainment. Three stages, with one dedicated to acoustic music.
Location: Devauden
Date: Friday 23rd May 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £46
Also available Day tickets too
Contact for info: devaudenmusicfest@gmail.com
Website: www.devaudenfestival.com/
County: Monmouthshire
Country: Wales
Fishguard Folk Festival - 23rd May 2025 - Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
Fishguard's Folk Festival brings together its unique mix of local talent and well-known performers to provide four days of songs, tunes and dance. Most events are still free, and whether you want to play, sing, dance or just watch and listen, there is always a choice of things to do in throughout this fun-packed friendly festival. Add in the beauty of the location on the world famous Pembrokeshire coast and you have the perfect weekend.
Location: Fishguard
Date: Friday 23rd May 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available TBA - It's mostly FREE, 4 ticketed events.
Contact for info: judy.whitehouse@gmail.com
Website: www.fishfolkfest.co.uk/
County: Pembrokeshire
Country: Wales
HowTheLightgetsIn Festival - 23rd May 2025 - Hay on Wye, HR3 5BG, Herefordshire
The world's largest festival of philosophy and music is back - HowTheLightGetsIn returns to Hay-On-Wye on 24th-27th May!
Amongst the beautiful Black Mountains, you'll find the world's leading thinkers debating today's biggest ideas, as well as a spectacular array of musicians and performers.
Across 300+ events, we'll bring together superstar philosophers, trailblazing scientists, award-winning writers, and political giants to tackle the most pressing issues of our times. Join discussions designed to push the limits of what you know with speakers hand-picked for their creativity and insight.
First Speakers - https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/the-big-ideas/speakers
Location: Hay on Wye, HR3 5BG
Date: Friday 23rd May 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £178
Contact for info: (0)20 7837 3000 / enquiries@artandideas.org
Website: howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay
County: Herefordshire
Country: Wales
Fire in the Mountain - 29th May 2025 - nr Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Spurred on by their love of folk music and outdoor activity, and seeing potential in a farm not used to it's full potential, 20 - 30 vounteers came together on the farm to begin the journey of a big tidy up and clear out.
Through the efforts of countless volunteers and 5 festivals, we can safely say that our aims to renovate and maintain the farm have been a success. There is still work to be done, and still ideas to be brought to fruitition. It's an annual small gathering of the finest folk musicians in the world.
Location: nr Aberystwyth
Date: Thursday 29th May 2025 for 5 day(s)
Full Price: £195
Also available TBA
Contact for info: info@fireinthemountain.co.uk
eloquista@gmail.com
Website: fireinthemountain.co.uk
County: Ceredigion
Country: Wales
Gower Folk Festival - 13th Jun 2025 - Weobley Castle, Llanrhidian, SA3 1HB, Gower
Fabulous music every June on the stunning Gower peninsula.
Tickets limited usually to 350 - 400, so get your soon.
Look at their fabulous location!
Location: Weobley Castle, Llanrhidian, SA3 1HB
Date: Friday 13th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £0
Also available TBA.
A variety of Day tickets too.
Contact for info: joy@gowerfolkfestival.co.uk
Website: www.gowerfolkfestival.co.uk/
County: Gower
Country: Wales
Unearthed In a Field - 20th Jun 2025 - Solva, Haverfordwest, SA62 6YE, Pembrokeshire
A 3 day festival for our global community with the stated objective as the expansion of consciousness from the material to the ethereal.
Mixed genre, with a fair bit of acoustic and folk music. Check the line up to see if it suits you.
Location: Solva, Haverfordwest, SA62 6YE
Date: Friday 20th June 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £175
Contact for info:
Website: unearthedfestival.co.uk
County: Pembrokeshire
Country: Wales
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod - 8th Jul 2025 - Llangollen, LL20 8SW , Denbighshire
Each year since 1947, over 4,000 performers from across the globe head to the beautiful little Welsh town to take part in a unique event combining competition, performance, and international peace and friendship. Around 25 different competitions celebrate song, music and dance, climaxing with the prestigious 'Choir of the World' where winning choirs compete for the Pavarotti Trophy.
Traditional folk singing and dancing from across the globe.
And some of the biggest stars from other music genres as well!
Location: Llangollen, LL20 8SW
Date: Tuesday 8th July 2025 for 6 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available Day tickets from £20
Contact for info: info@international-eisteddfod.co.uk
Website: www.international-eisteddfod.co.uk/
County: Denbighshire
Country: Wales
Folk on the Farm - 17th Jul 2025 - Tyddyn Mon, LL70 9PQ, Isle of Anglesey
From small beginnings in 2013 the Folk on the Farm festival has quickly established itself as one of the highlights of the folk festival calendar, attracting hundreds each year and featuring some of the best folk artists from around the UK.
Includes Quality Real Ale (from The Great Orme Brewery Company), Festival Food, Stalls, Fringe Festival in Cafe, Singarounds & Sessions.
Location: Tyddyn Mon, LL70 9PQ
Date: Thursday 17th July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £85
Also available Day tickets - £15 - 35
Contact for info: folkonthefarm@live.com
Website: www.folkonthefarmfestival.com
County: Isle of Anglesey
Country: Wales
Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau - 18th Jul 2025 - Dolgellau, Snowdonia
A Welsh festival of, well, Welsh folk music. One of the biggest Welsh Festivals.
If you have a guitar in the attic, or a bodhran in the cupboard, or maybe a fiddle under the bed, then bring them along! There is sure to be a jamming session in a pub or two.
If you're a musician who would like to play in front of an audience, there will be a busking stage on the Square where you could perform in front of the crowd.
Location: Dolgellau
Date: Friday 18th July 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £70
Contact for info: pwyllgor@sesiwnfawr.cymru
Website: sesiwnfawr.cymru/en/home/
County: Snowdonia
Country: Wales
National Eisteddfod of Wales - 2nd Aug 2025 - Wrecsam / Wrexham, Wrexham County
The BIG one!
The National Eisteddfod of Wales is one of the great festivals of the world, attracting over 160,000 visitors every year. An eclectic mixture of culture, music, visual arts and all kinds of activities for people of all ages, there's something for everyone on the Maes during the first week of August every year.
The Eisteddfod is a travelling festival which belongs to the people of Wales.
Location: Wrecsam / Wrexham
Date: Saturday 2nd August 2025 for 8 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available Various event and day tickets
Contact for info: gwyb@eisteddfod.cymru
Website: eisteddfod.wales/
County: Wrexham County
Country: Wales
Green Man - 14th Aug 2025 - near Crickhowell, Powys
A large independant event, with a wide range of artists, and genres, more than 100 acts playing indie, psychedelia, Americana, and folk across 5 stages. Food stalls and a bar will be open in the evening. Many different themes.
Check to see if it matches your tastes.
Supports the Bevan Foundation as well.
Location: near Crickhowell
Date: Thursday 14th August 2025 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available Day tickets £78 still available
Contact for info: info@greenman.net
Website: www.greenman.net/
County: Powys
Country: Wales
Between the Trees - 21st Aug 2025 - Candleston Castle, Bridgend CF32 0LS ,
Music - Natural Science - Art
An idyllic, new, 100 acre, woodland site in South Wales.
Between The Trees has a unique theme of music, natural science and art. The festival aims to engage people of all ages with the natural world and to re-connect younger generations with the wonder and restorative qualities that this woodland environment offers. Musically, it is grounded in contemporary folk, Americana and acoustic roots genres, blending new exciting talent with more established performers; the music is wholly original and always wonderful.
Location: Candleston Castle, Bridgend CF32 0LS
Date: Thursday 21st August 2025 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £180
Also available Day tickets too.
Contact for info:
Website: betweenthetrees.co.uk
Country: Wales
The festivals below are from last year which, at the time of our last check, had not yet updated their websites to 2025.
This helps you check up on festivals we haven't yet confirmed are on this year. If you see any that HAVE recently updated to this year, let us know (email is given on the Contact page). And if we've missed a festival completely, do tell us.
Llangollen Fringe Festival - 5th Jul 2024 - Llangollen, Denbighshire
Mixture of various media, incliding folk music, celebrating its 20th anniversary. With individual event tickets, you can choose your favourite artists to suit your taste in music and entertainment.
The Fringe is a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers.
As well as attracting visitors from all over the UK, the Fringe continues to grow its local following and is achieving its aim to become 'the festival for the town in the town' - thanks to everyone in our audience.
Location: Llangollen
Date: Friday 5th July 2024 for 9 day(s)
Full Price: £70
Also available Some individual event tickets
Contact for info: contact@llangollenfringe.co.uk
Website: llangollenfringe.co.uk
County: Denbighshire
Country: Wales
Folk on the Lawn - 11th Jul 2024 - Abbey Mil, Tintern, NP16 6SE, Monmouthshire
Site for 2024 not updated yet.
Coming from near and - very - far. Some with countless 'hits' or 'views' or 'followers' on various media platforms; some with few. Some with record company deals; others producing self-released albums. All did wonderfully.
Location: Abbey Mil, Tintern, NP16 6SE
Date: Thursday 11th July 2024 for 4 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available Tickets on the day
Contact for info: 01291 689346
Website: folkonthelawn.com
County: Monmouthshire
Country: Wales
Took place in September last year
Gower Bluegrass Festival - 6th Sep 2024 - Gower Heritage Centre, Parkmill SA3 2EH, Swansea
Well, it's sort of folk music, isn't it.
This friendly blue grass event will have lots of live music.
It does say it's a bit quirky
And we do like to include something a bit different every now and then.
Location: Gower Heritage Centre, Parkmill SA3 2EH
Date: Friday 6th September 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £40
Also available Day tickets too.
Contact for info: 01792 371 206
Website: www.gowerheritagecentre.co.uk/gower-blue-grass-festival-8th-9th-10th-september-2023-gower-heritage-centre/
County: Swansea
Country: Wales
Took place in November last year
Tenby Blues Festival - 8th Nov 2024 - Tenby, Pembrokeshire
The Tenby Blues Festival has grown rapidly and is now firmly established as one of the major events in the UK Blues calendar. This intimate and friendly festival has built its reputation on the strength of its line up that just gets better by the year.
Site not fully updated on our last visit.
Location: Tenby
Date: Friday 8th November 2024 for 3 day(s)
Full Price: £
Also available TBA
Contact for info: info@tenbyblues.co.uk
Website: www.tenbyblues.co.uk/
County: Pembrokeshire
Country: Wales
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