Swanage Folk Festival
Swanage Folk Festival
Friday 8th September - Sunday 13th September 2020
Now an established fixture on the calendar, the second weekend after the August Bank Holiday Monday, the festival provides entertainment and fun for all, much of it free!
Many dance sides travel from all over the country to dance at Swanage. The dancers in their costumes add a vibrancy to the atmosphere in the town.
A variety of activities for children take place on the Sandpit Field over the weekend.
Saturday at 3.30pm features the procession of dance sides through the town, featuring somewhere in the region of 50 dance sides from the world of Morris, Apalachian, Clog and maybe some more exotic dance styles.
Concerts and events are held at a variety of venues in the town centre.
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Swanage Regatta & Carnival
Swanage Regatta & Carnival Week
Saturday 25th July - Saturday 1st August 2020.
Swanage Regatta and Carnival is the premier carnival on the South Coast.
Over 100 events take place during Carnival week, there is something for everyone:- live music every day, the half marathon, sand castle competitions, the sailing regatta, treasure hunts, magnificent firework displays and not forgetting one of the longest processions around.
Last year they donated over £28,000 to good causes both locally and nationally and they hope to beat that this year with the help of their sponsors and your donations.
Swanage Blues Festival
Swanage Blues Festival
Thursday 5th - Sunday 8th March 2020
The Swanage Blues Festival features Open Mic daily, Electric Jam Sessions, Buskers and much more.
20 Indoor Venues - 50 + Great Gigs - 100 + performers - all free to customers
Swanage Blues & Roots
Swanage Blues & Roots Festival
Thursday 1st - Sunday 4th October 2020
The Swanage Blues & Roots Festival has free admission to 50 gigs in 20 indoor venues. Featuring open Mic daily, Electric Jam Sessions, Buskers and much more all free to customers.
Swanage Lifeboat Week
Swanage Lifeboat Week
Friday 7th August - Sunday16th August 2020
TBC.
An action packed week that includes VIP Boathouse guided tours, fun quiz, Gig race, live music, Raft race, fun run, fireworks and much more.
Swanage Fish Festival
Friday 12th June - Sunday 14th June 2020
Swanage Fish Festival is about celebrating all things 'fishy' with a festival that features food, fishing and fun. Highlighting local business and skills in a perfect setting of Prince Albert Gardens and Swanage Pier.
There will be fish, cockles, mussels, scallops, seafood paella oysters, cocktails and Champagne! Plus fishy and traditional sea events to amuse the whole family.
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Purbeck Art Weeks
PURBECK ART WEEKS FESTIVAL 23rd May to 7th June 2020
There is always something for everyone at this popular
annual two-week Festival in late May/early June.
We celebrate over 100 talented visual
artists working in Purbeck many of whom warmly open their
studios to the public during the Festival.
More information can be found here
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival
20th - 23rd August 2020
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival is a small festival set on a farm on the beautiful Jurassic Coastline. We're a festival that's loved by everyone because there's loads for kids to do, loads for parents and loads for the old folkies!
It features outstanding, original young folk, roots and world music. We always encourage the young up and coming musicians too as well as booking national and international folk acts and a good variety of local music. There's something for everyone.
Purbeck Outdoor Weekend
18th September - 20th September 2020
T-POW (The Purbeck Outdoor Weekend) is a registered charity (no 1166759). As a charity, we raise money for charities and good causes by organising fun and sporting events held over one weekend in September.
T_POW organises The Purbeck Running Festival which has been running (pun intended) for the last five years and has been very successful with The Purbeck Marathon having been rated in the top 3 UK races by Runners World.
T-POW also organises the challenge events for The Purbeck Nordic Walking UK Festival. This festival is set to be the Nordic walking event in the UK and the Marathon challenge is the first of its type in the UK.
T-POW also organises The Purbeck Bikemonger Bimble in association with Charlie the Bikemonger. All profits from the Bikemonger Bimble and the other events organised by T-POW go to charities and good causes.
Purbeck Chamber Music Festival
3rd September - 6th September 2020
Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival is an exciting artistic development curated by Natalie Clein and her fellow musician friends. The Festival takes place every year at the end of summer in the beautiful surroundings of Purbeck in Dorset in historic locations, churches, unusual sites and schools.
Wilkswood Reggae Festival
July 24th - July 26th
Held in the lush, green Purbeck countryside on the outskirts of Swanage in Dorset, the fourth Wilkswood Reggae Festival will take place from 24th July to 26th July 2020.
Previous year's festivals have seen reggae legends, pioneers and flag bearers from the UK and abroad perform across three stages. Previous headliners on the main stage have included Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Mad Professor, General Levy & Joe Ariwa, Earl Sixteen & Carroll Thompson, Mikey General, Brinsley 'Aswad' Forde, Janet Kay, Tippa Irie and Festus Coxsone.
There are two additional performance and soundsystem stages, a chillout zone, late-night Shebeen, street food stalls (including the famous Jerkshak Caribbean cuisine and a wood-fired pizza van) and bars serving ice cold Red Stripe, craft ales, local cider and rum cocktails!
The Wilkswood Reggae Festival is first and foremost a family-friendly festival and there is plenty to keep the kids entertained with a dedicated play area, the leafy Dingly Dell featuring storytelling and music and the hugely popular hay bale castle. To encourage the family atmosphere, we offer reduced prices for children up to the age of 17 and under-threes are free!
Purbeck Pirate Festival
22nd to 24th May 2020.
A piratical mix of entertainment, fun and stalls aplenty: reenactors with cannons, singers and pirate parades. Free event.
