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Sunday! £60 ticket: elyfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/ Eddi Reader News Rusty Shackle Jez Lowe Boo Hewerdine @BrooksRedGuitar The Fugitives @nickparkermus Nick Parker David Gibb Stumpy Oak KEGS Rory McLeod Ian A Anderson Cambridge and Walker Orphean Sprig Anna Dames & Matthew Talbot!

A podcast from Sue Marchant's Radio Shows with retiring chairman Andy Wall, who's been with us since 1996 and talks through the highs (and lows!) of his time. We're sad to see him go and enormously appreciative of his work. He'll be playing this year in the Nightingale tent.

Five Saturdays before you can see thirteen acts at our lovely festival for only £60. That's less than a fiver each!! Plus you could indulge in our beer tent, sip cocktails at our gin bar, eat some of our lovely food and generally have a fantastic time! elyfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/

Delighted to welcome our final trader for this year's festival, Ada Baby. They offer wonderful baby clothing made with organic breathable muslin, accessories, mum and baby sets and lots more. Everyone knows somebody with a baby so do check them out! adababy.co.uk

On Saturday this year we hope to run a Dog Bingo competition, which you can read about here: elyfolkfestival.co.uk/workshops-comp… But we need your help. Have a read and if you'd like your dog to take part and look as stylish as Miko send us a PM on our Facebook page. Thanks in advance

Ely Folk Festival 'thriving' with one month to go and tickets selling fast elystandard.co.uk/news/24379676.…

Beer news! Subject to availability we will have at least 25 real ales from Downham Isle Brewery Lord Conrads Brewery miltonbrewery Moonshine Brewery @NeneValleyBrew Papworth Brewery Three Blind Mice and Two Rivers Brewery. News on low/zero alcohol drinks and gin bar will follow soon.

We're delighted to show Trish Reed, the chair of the festival CIC, presenting a certificate for a donation of £450 to Melissa, Outreach Coordinator at Lifecraft, our 2023 charity. Our 2024 charity is Emmaus so if you can do give generously to our Morris parade on July 13th

Hello Ely Folk! Today we have a little message for you from one of our wonderful patrons Boo Hewerdine, who as well as playing with Eddi Reader News will be putting together a special concert for us with our other patron @BrooksRedGuitar. See you there!

Hello Ely Folk! Just three weeks to go before all these wonderful people will converge on our lovely site to play for you. Tickets available here: elyfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/ - Friday £32, Saturday £60, Sunday £58 or the whole weekend for just £118 (and under 12s go free).

Hello Ely Folk! Today we're posting our site plan for you. It's a small site everything is only a few minutes walk apart. If you have any questions about the plan please post them here and we'll get back to you. Looking forward to seeing you all in July!

We're delighted to bring you another podcast via Sue Marchant's Radio Shows, this time with our band competition winners tombrad They'll be opening our Peregrine stage on Friday so make sure you check them out. shows.acast.com/spotted-in-ely…

For those of you who'll be there early on Friday we'll have performers for you in the Gin Bar and Starshade from 2.30pm. Check out Elly Tree, Simon George-Kelso, Pat Kilbey, Acoustic Spin, Martin Browne & Elizabeth Padgett, Paul Vaes, Simon Tall and David Wilson & Barbara Oxley

Today looking at our headliner, the incomparable Eddi Reader. From 'Perfect' with FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION via the solo hit 'Patience Of Angels' to an MBE for an outstanding contribution to the arts, an acclaimed album of Robert Burns poems and sellout shows everywhere she is a must see.

First day on site yestewrday setting up and included rain (getting it out of the way before the festival), 200m of tangled blue rope, measuring and hammering of metal pins (the eagle-eyed may spot some) and the arrival of our rather battered festival caravan. We’re on our way!

A Very Happy Friday Ely Folk! Our online box office will close at midnight on Tuesday. We will have a limited number of tickets of all types available on the gate but when they're gone they're gone! Get yours now here: elyfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/ See you in a week!

Hello again Ely Folk! A few more pictures of the site build for you tonight. The weather's not been ideal but it'll still all be ready for you on Friday morning.

Today we have our beer list for you! Check it all out below and thanks to our great suppliers. Usual caveats apply: all subject to change, not all may be available at all times

The Festival camp site will open at 11am on Friday. There's plenty of room for everyone so please don't arrive early as it leads to queues on the main road. The postcode is CB7 5TR and the entrance is next to Ben's Yard. The What3Words code is ///headlight.blip.courage.

We have a customer feedback survey surveymonkey.com/r/NV5X5VW and we'd really appreciate it if you could take two minutes to do it. The more we have the better we can make the festival. Thanks in advance and thanks if you've already done it. The Barefoot Doctors by Andy Griffiths