Announcing… The Purbeck Folk Festival 2013 POETRY SLAM. Are you a budding poet? Enter the Poetry Slam. Steve Biddle (winner of the Bournemouth Festival of Words 2012 Slam) will be hosting a slam throughout the weekend. The first heats will take place on throughout Saturday afternoon with the semis and grand final (on the new Fire Stage) on Sunday afternoon. If you’re a poet and you fancy going head-to-head against other poets in a friendly competition, all you need to do is send us an email in advance stating your interest… …and come armed with your best poems! First heats are one poem each (3 minute time limit) and semis and grand final consist of 3 x 3 minute rounds.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Purbeck Rising
NEW 5th stage at Purbeck Folk Festival this year. This will home the finals of our PURBECK RISING! new talent watch, where musicians play to win a spot on one of the main stages at Purbeck Folk Festival 2014. Look out for some ‘Come and play” open mic sessions on this stage.
Early bird tickets
Only a few of days left to buy early bird price tickets – get buying!
Free Friday
19 July 2013 -
FREE FRIDAY
- we’ve decided to let local residents (BH19 postcodes) come and enjoy our little festival for FREE on Friday 23 August.
More information…
Stewards!
Urban Folk Quartet
Having just seen the perform, we can confirm that they are red hot and on top form ready for Purbeck this year.
Purbeck favourites at Larmer Tree festival
Just back from LARMER TREE Festival. What a fantastic (and muddy) festival. Great sets by local Dorset bands – Catherine Burke Band, Fearne and Pachango who will all be playing for us at Purbeck this year.
Larmer Tree and Tolpuddle
Up early from Larmer Tree to move on and play at Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival. Lovely little festival and the SUN came out!! Does anyone else remember what that looks/feels like?!
Lushfest
Lushfest – whoa there!! There was a lot of mud. I had a lovely time playing as Catherine Burke Band and as with every festival, picked up tips and pointers and good ideas to use at Purbeck.
Priddy Folk Festival
PRIDDY Folk Festival – amazing weekend. Highlights… playing with Djambo, getting up and playing with Stompin Dave Allen, and RORY McLEOD & The Familiar Strangers – what a great gig. We’re talking about a little twinning association with Priddy. Having seen The Jaywalkers at Purbeck last year, they were booked for Priddy this year. We are similar festivals with similar tastes in music.