{"id":1986202,"date":"2025-08-29T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1986202"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:13:08","slug":"festival-taking-over-town-with-weekend-of-free-events-and-live-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/festival-taking-over-town-with-weekend-of-free-events-and-live-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival taking over town with weekend of free events and live music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A festival that proved a huge hit in 2024 is returning for its second year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bungay Folk Festival has announced its programme for 2025\u00a0with a plethora of\u00a0artists, concerts and free events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hundreds of people are expected to flock to the town to enjoy the weekend of celebrations from September 5 to 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Lots of the music can be enjoyed for free <em>(Image: Supplied)<\/em><\/span> A wealth of free music and dancing will be on offer throughout the daytime, with a plethora of\u00a0workshops running to tempt the musically minded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There will be a concert by Sound Tradition and performances from folk stars\u00a0Mishra\u00a0and Chris Cleverley\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Folk musician Eliza Carthy will top\u00a0the bill\u00a0on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25423278.beer-festival-returning-wymondham-rugby-club-weekend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Beer festival with street food, live music and rugby games coming to town;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Beer festival with street food, live music and rugby games coming to town<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Orchestra of Samples, Tamsin Elliott and Tarek Elazhary round off\u00a0the weekend on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The festival has more than 50 different acts on offer, with most playing for free including\u00a0The Larks, Homity, Tangled up in Bob, John Ward, Alden and Patterson, Clark and Zuppardi, Wendsum, The King Driscolls, Rattlebox and Will Fergusson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fisher Theatre, St Mary\u2019s and Holy Trinity church,\u00a0The Bell Gallery, Number 28, The Community centre, The Riverside centre, 3 Tuns Public House and the town library will be playing host to the wide range of music and dance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Dancing forms a huge part of the weekend celebrations <em>(Image: Supplied)<\/em><\/span> As a result, they are able to offer several free workshops such as yoga, African drumming, Balkan dance and\u00a0a family ceilidh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other paid workshops will include\u00a0learning to play the flute, guitar\u00a0and bodhran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Folk Picnic will take place at the castle bailey with free live music stage from 11am to 5pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A festival that proved a huge hit in 2024 is returning for its second year. 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