May Folk Weekend 2013
The four-day May bank holiday weekend of 2013 at Botton Village in Danby Dale: the guests, the venues and the village.
Festival archive Archive page
Festival Archive
From 2002 a volunteer team ran folk festivals, concerts and workshops in and around the North York Moors under the name Festival on the Moor, and published their programme on this domain. The pages below keep that record, mostly from 2013: the May Folk Weekend at Botton Village, the Saltburn sessions and the Yorkshire Wassail, a youth folk project and a song competition. festivalonthemoor.co.uk is now an independent magazine and is not affiliated with the festival.
The archive pages
Special Events and the Yorkshire Wassail
Monthly acoustic afternoons in Saltburn and the Christmas ‘Yorkshire Wassail’ shows of carols, songs and stories.
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Shoots & Roots Youth Folk Project
A Heritage Lottery Fund project from 2007 that taught folk song, music and dance to young people of the North York Moors.
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Klondike Folk Arts Song Competition
The competition for new songs in the folk style that ran at the May weekend.
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Ticket Prices of the 2013 Weekend
Weekend, day, concert and camping prices published for the 2013 May Folk Weekend, kept as a record.
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Where Festival-Goers Stayed
The festival campsite in Danby Dale, a camping barn at Botton Village and nearby farm cottages.
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The Festival Venues
Where the sessions and the May weekend took place: Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Botton Village and Danby Dale.
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Read in the magazine
Folk Music
Great UK Folk Festivals
From a Devon seaside week to a January takeover of Glasgow, the UK's oldest folk gatherings each keep their own place and season.
Folk Music3 min read
Wassailing: An Old Custom
From a hot bowl carried door to door to toast hung in apple trees, the midwinter custom that drinks the health of people and orchards.
Dance & Customs3 min read
Rapper and Longsword Dancing
Flexible blades from the Durham and Northumberland coalfield, rigid swords from Sheffield and the moors, and the winter customs that kept both alive.
Dance & Customs3 min read
Festival Camping With Kids
Family fields, children's programmes and a few simple safety habits turn a camping festival into a weekend that works for all ages.
Festival Guide3 min read
North York Moors Highlights
Heather moorland, a wild coast, Cistercian ruins and a steam railway make the North York Moors National Park an easy place to plan a first visit.
The Moors3 min read
Whitby Folk Week Guide
Born as a weekend of folk music in 1965, Whitby's August festival now fills the town with song, sessions, ceilidhs and dancing for a week.
The Moors2 min read