UK Music Festivals 2008

This is by no means a list of every festival in the UK, it's the smaller folk/roots/rock events that don't involve huge amounts of corporate sponsorship. Dates are set, acts are being booked and some of the earlier festivals already have tickets on sale.

• March 2008

• 29Fig & date fayre, Blandford, Dorset
• 20Gosport Easter Festival, Fareham, Hampshire
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• April 2008

• 11Oxford Folk Festival, Oxford
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• May 2008

• 01Shetland Folk Festival, Isle of Shetland
• 02Moor & Coast, Whitby, Yorkshire
• 15Winchester May Fest, Winchester
• 16Lewes Folk Rock Festival, Lewes, Sussex
• 17Bearded Theory, Derbyshire
• 16Wheaton Aston Festival, Staffordshire
• 16Shepley Spring festival, Shepley, Yorks
• ??Knockengorroch Festival, Dumfries, Scotland
• 22Orkney Folk Festival, Orkney , Scotland
• 23Off The Tracks, Castle Donington
• 23Black Horse Festival , Telham, Sussex
• 23Chippenham Folk Festival, Chippenham, Wilts
• 23Chester Folk Festival, Kelshall, Nr Chester
• 24Acoustic Unpluggged, Nantwich, Cheshire
• 29Sunrise Celebration, Nr Yeovil, Somerset
• 30Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse
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• June 2008

• 07Strawberry Fair, Cambridge
• 13Wimborne Folk Festival, Dorset
• 13Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival, Middlewich
• 13Big Session Festival, Leicester
• 27Crawley Folk Festival, Hawth Theatre grounds
• 28Leigh Folk Festival, Leigh on Sea
• 27Glastonbury, Somerset
• 203 Wishes Faery Fest, Colliford Lake Park, Cornwall
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• July 2008

• 04Guilfest, Guildford
• 04Workhouse Festival , Llanfyllin, Powys
• 04Two Rivers Folk Festival, Chepstow
• 04Saul Canal Festival, Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire
• 11Priddy Folk Festival, Somerset
• 11Ely Folk Festival, Ely, Cambs
• 16Larmer Tree Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, Wiltshire
• 11Spratton Folk Festival, Spratton, Northamptonshire
• 24Trowbridge Village Pump, Trowbridge, Wilts
• 25Wickerman Festival, East Kirkcarswell, SW Scotland
• 18Brampton Live, Brampton, Carlisle
• 17Latitude Festival , Southwold Suffolk
• 18Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau , Dolgellau, Gwynedd
• 25Evolve Festival, Lodmoor Park,Weymouth,Dorset
• 25Lomond Folk Festival, Loch Lomond, Scotland
• 25Womad, Charlton Park, Wiltshire
• 31Cambridge Folk Festival, Cambridge
• 31Wickham Festival, Hampshire
• 31Speyfest, Fochabers, Morayshire
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• August 2008

•     Big Green Gathering, Nr Cheddar, Somerset
• 01Sidmouth Folk Week, Sidmouth, Devon
• 07Fairport's Cropredy Convention, Nr Banbury, Oxon
• 08Broadstairs Folk Week, Broadstairs, Kent
• 08Summer Sundae, Leicester, De Montford
• 15Tegeingl, Mold, N Wales
• 15Green Man, Glanusk Park, S Wales
• 15Beautiful Days, Escot Park, Devon
• 16Whitby Folk Week, Whitby, N Yorks
• 21Towersey Village Festival, Towersey, nr Thame, Oxon
• 22Solfest, Cumbria
• 22Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Shrewsbury
• 29Rhythm Festival, Clapham, Nr Bedford
• 30Moseley Folk Festival, Moseley Park, Birmingham
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• September 2008

• 05North Devon Folk Festival , Ilfracombe
• 12Bromyard Festival, Bromyard, Hereford
• 29Off The Tracks, Castle Donnington, Derby
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