FolkEast Festival 2025: innovation, tradition and midsummer magic in perfect harmony | Songlines
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

FolkEast Festival 2025: innovation, tradition and midsummer magic in perfect harmony

By Julian May

Julian May heads to a pop-up village of midsummer rituals, famous guitars and sighing oaks

Kathryn Tickell Credit SJG Folkeast 2025

Kathryn Tickell (photo: SJG FolkEast 2025)

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