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Folklincs Humberfest 2025
Friday 18th July &
Saturday 19th July 2025

HUMBERFEST 2025

Folklincs is proud to announce HumberFest 2025, taking place on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th July across Barton-upon-Humber. This year’s festival will feature a packed programme of live performances, workshops, dancing, and community events, all celebrating the rich traditions of folk music.

Performances from renowned acts such as Melrose Quartet, Alistair Anderson, The She Shanties, The Davenport Family, La Cri Du Canard, Hebble, Hase Waits, Liam Robinson, Lynda and Alan Hardcastle, Steve and Marie-Anne Hindley, Spare Hands, Lisa Oliver, and Robinson, Dawson and LeVauguer will bring the town to life.

Alongside the concerts, festival-goers can enjoy family clog dancing, songwriting workshops, Youthlincs Live, and free music sessions featuring French dance tunes, American old-time music, and a Big Shanty Sing. Ceilidh dancing will light up Saturday night at The Ropewalk, and the Ropery Café will be open all day Saturday for refreshments.

Tickets are now on sale via Eventbrite, with full details, maps, and schedules available on the Events page (click button below for more info). Join us this summer for two days of music, dancing, and community celebration at HumberFest 2025.

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NEWS 31 Oct 2024

Kate Witney

Kate Witney has joined Folklincs as a tutor. She is a well-known figure on the Lincolnshire folk scene, both as a singer and as a workshop leader.

Kate was born and brought up in Louth and studied English and Education at Homerton College, Cambridge and later studied on the Professional Performance course at the Royal Northern College of Music.

She has released several CDs, including three of unaccompanied traditional folk songs. She is a regular judge for the Song for Lincolnshire competition
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Kate also enjoys giving talks on a range of subjects, including folk song and folk song collectors.

NEWS 5 September 2024

Folklincs Brochure 2024/25

Discover how to get involved in playing or singing folk music in North Lincolnshire

Download the latest Folklincs brochure to find out what's available and how to acccess tuition sessions at the Traditional Music Centre at the Ropewalk in Barton-upon-Humber.

We cater for all ages and offer LOW COST instrumental and small group song workshops.

Download Info on Workshops

NEWS 5 September 2024

New Workshop Autumn 2024

Clog Dancing Lynette Eldon and Wendy Bolton have in excess of 30 years experience dancing step clog, mostly as part of the Green Ginger Clog.

In the mid 1970s Lynette learnt from Johnson Ellwood of Chester le Street, who danced on the stage and was a second generation North East Clog dance champion.

Primarily they dance steps from the North East of England, including hornpipes and waltzes, but currently they dance with Dukes Dandy and within that have also performed steps from the Lancashire and Welsh traditions.

NEWS 5 September 2024

Liam A Robinson
Anglo-Concertina/ Melodeon

We welcome Liam A Robinson to the Folklincs tuition team.

Liam has over thirty years experience of performing, teaching and researching traditional music. He has worked across the UK, Europe and North America, bringing folk music and dance to a diverse range of audiences and communities.

Liam is especially interested in Lincolnshire folk culture, dance music and encouraging participation in all areas of the folk arts

NEWS 9 March 2023

Folklincs on the Burnsy Show
BBC Radio Humberside.

Folklincs were featured on BBC local radio when Carol Dawson appeared live on Radio Humberside's multi-award-winning Burnsy Show in March 2023. The programme was sadly later axed as part of wide-ranging BBC cuts - but Carol's fluent contribution was a great promotion for Folklincs.

The award of the North Lincolnshire Community Champions 'Creative Achiever of the Year' accolade brought wider recognition of the group's cultural activities in the community. A great supporter of local music, Burnsy was only too delighted to give airtime to the developing Folklincs success story.

NEWS 9 March 2023

Folk Map of North Lincolnshire

Following today's exposure on BBC local radio and in response to demand, we are making available for download the Folklincs Folk Map of North Lincolnshire

The story of folk music in North Lincolnshire is fascinating, giving rise not only to the public performance of the genre, but also greater awareness of the cultural history of the area. The Folklincs 'Folk Map of North Lincolnshire is a great overview of that rich heritage,

FOLK MAP OF NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE