Filey Folk Festival 2025

I'm really looking forward to playing the Filey Folk Festival this year. It'll be my first time there and I'll be performing two sets on Saturday 3 May. My first is at 2pm at The Imperial and my second at 6.15pm on the Fox's Den stage, at the Masonic Hall.

The Festival has taken place on the early May Bank Holiday weekend for over 20 years, with people coming from all over the UK and overseas to play.

I'm far from what you'd call a traditional folk artist, so fit more into the contemporary indie folk rock and americana genres. However you want to describe my music, I guess it does fit into the traditions of story telling, although more through metaphor and suggestions of the human condition than that of true folk music story telling.

And whilst I'm looking forward to playing my two sets, I'm excited just as much to be milling around and listening to lots of other acts, enjoying the town of Filey, the sea air, the atmosphere. We'll be making a weekend of it because... well why wouldn't you!

I've pretty much got my set lists ready, and although they'll be similar for each performance, I'll probably mix it up a bit. It'll be a mix of songs from the All My Ghosts album and some new songs due to be released this year.

Some of the newer songs I'll be playing, can be found on YouTube:

I'm also looking forward to sharing the stage with other performers. Here's a Spotify playlist, which includes some, but not all, the talent that will be performing at The Imperial.

I think it's going to be a cracking weekend, whoever you're going to see and wherever they're playing.

A massive thanks to the organisers and everybody involved in making this event happen. This is clearly no easy task.

See you all at the weekend :-)