Wadebridge Cornwall Folk Festival, August 2010

Last Minute Stuff!

You can collect any tickets ordered in the last week before the festival from Wadebridge Town Hall (please bring ID). If you have booked camping, please go to Little Bodieve campsite and give your name and tell them you booked through the festival.

All tickets can be bought at the Box Office at the Town Hall from Friday afternoon onwards.

The doors will open half an hour before each event. Please try to arrive before the event starts to ensure your place!

The Box Office can accept Visa, Mastercard, Maestro and Solo cards as well as cash or cheques. The other venues can take cash or cheques (made out to Hobgoblin Music) but no credit cards.

Online ticket sales and phone ticket sales have now stopped. However you can still call to reserve tickets and pay for them on collection.

If you have any queries, please call the festival box office line on 01208 814638

We hope you enjoy the weekend - Please come back to the website after the weekend and fill in our Feedback Form!

Tickets

Tickets are now on sale for the 2010 festival. The weekend season ticket offers great value, and in addition all events will be individually ticketed.

Tickets purchased before August 21st will be sent out by first class post before the festival. Any tickets purchased after that time can be collected at the festival. If the tickets do not arrive in time for any reason, bring some ID to the festival and we will be able to resolve any problems for you.

Contact Details

Address: Hobgoblin Music, PO Box 4707, Worthing, BN11 9JA
Telephone: 01208 814638
Email: festival@hobgoblinwadebridge.co.uk

Camping

The following campsites are close to Wadebridge, and are currently taking bookings for the bank holiday weekend:
Little Bodieve holiday Park: 01208 812323 (A field has been reserved for 2010 festival goers)
The Laurels Touring Park & Cottages: 01209 313474
Trenwice Farm Holiday Park: 01208 812830

Venues

Main Stage, Town Hall: Wadebridge Town Hall, The Platt, Wadebridge, PL27 7AQ
A bar will be operating within the hall during all the main events.
Folk Club Room: The Molesworth Arms, Molesworth Street, Wadebridge, PL27 7DP
The Molesworth Arms will be the home of the Festival Folk Club for this year's festival. The Molesworth has also kindly agreed to host sessions throughout the festival.
Churchill Bars Ceilidhs : Upstairs in the Churchill Bars, 54, Molesworth Street, Wadebridge., PL27 7DR
The Churchill Bars (Wadebridge Conservative Club) will provide the Ceilidh venue throughout the festival, Located in the upstairs function room. The club also offers good real ale and food.
The Spoken Word: Committee Room. upstairs in the Town Hall, The Platt, Wadebridge, PL27 7AG
Storytelling, poetry, humour, lectures with music - a new venue for this year is in The Committee Room, upstairs at Wadebridge Town Hall.
Children's Festival: Upstairs in the Goods Shed, John Betjamin Centre, Southern Way, Wadebridge, PL27 7BX
The Children's Festival will be held at The Goods Shed adjacent to the John Betjamin Centre in Southern Way, and right next to the craft fair
Workshop Rooms: Upstairs in the Town Hall, The Platt, Wadebridge, PL27 7AG
Workshops will be taking place in various rooms at the town hall - stewards will be directing attendees to the correct locations.
Street Entertainment: Street events will take place at various locations around the town.
Molesworth Tune Sessions: The Molesworth Arms, Molesworth Street, Wadebridge, PL27 7DP
The Molesworth has kindly agreed to again host sessions throughout the festival.
Churchill Bars Song Sessions: Downstairs in the The Churchill Bars, 54, Molesworth Street, Wadebridge., PL27 7DR
The singing sessions have moved this year from the Ship Inn to the downstairs bar in the Churchill Bars in Molesworth Street. They have good beer!
The Bridge on Wool: The Platt, Wadebridge, PL27 7AQ
Sessions will be held at the Bridge on Wool throughout the festival. There will be a free performance by The Gumbo Flyers on Thursday 26th August to kick off the festival weekend.
Craft Fair: John Betjamin Centre, Southern Way, Wadebridge, PL27 7BX

Accessibility

Most events take place on the ground floor of the various venues, so accessibility will not be a problem. However some events will be taking place upstairs at the Town Hall, including most of the workshops and all of the Spoken Word events. We will be rotating some of the workshops to take place downstairs at the town hall each day but it is not possible yet to say which.

Child Friendly?

Children are welcome to all festival events, but if a child is creating a disturbance, stewards may request that the child is calmed down outside the venue to avoid interrupting other people's enjoyment of the shows.

Craft Fair

There will be a Craft Fair over the course of the weekend at the John Betjamin Centre, Southern Way, Wadebridge, Cornwall, PL27 7BX
For enquiries regarding the Craft Fair, please contact Pete Grassby, Email: pete@melodeon.freeserve.co.uk

Festival Map

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Artist Applications

The 2010 festival is fully booked, so we cannot consider any new applications to play. We have received hundreds and hundreds of emails from bands wanting to play, and at the booking stage we did go through and consider them all, however it is not possible to reply to everybody, so please don't be offended if you didn't get a response.

Publicity & Support

Help to Publicise the Festival! Print a copy of the Festival Poster to display, or request an A3 copy of the poster to display.

If you would like to advertise in the festival programme, please email festival@hobgoblinwadebridge.co.uk

History

After the last minute announcement by Cornwall Festivals Ltd in 2007 that they were unable to continue running the festival, Hobgoblin Music co-founder Pete McClelland, and Hobgoblin shop manager Eddy Mayhew collaborated to put together a 3 day event packed with concerts, sessions and workshops and headlined by Martin Simpson. The 2007 festival was a big hit with festival goers and local people, who were keen for a similar event to take place in 2008, which it duly did.

Some Feedback from 2007 and 2008 festival goers:

“How can you improve on something this good?”
“Having attended at least 5 of the Wadebridge folk festivals, this was one of the best, if not the best...Looking forward to 2008"
“Excellent Weekend. Congratulations to the organisers and Stewards. Hope things continue next year.”
“Had a fab time! Thanks so much for putting it together.”
"Terrific folk festival."
"A great weekend"
"Excellent festival, ceilidhs great, concerts brilliant"
"You have all done a fantastic job"
"Please, please keep up the good work"
"Excellent Weekend"
"A very nice folk festival"
"Very good festival. The sound was brilliant"

Click through to more quotes and photos from the 2008 festival.

Click through to more quotes from the 2009 festival.

And Now...
The 2010 festival is being organised by Pete McClelland of Hobgoblin Music and Mike Walford.

Weekend season tickets will be available, and all non-free events will be individually ticketed too. Any profit from the festival will go towards a festival for 2011.