Our Festival Programme

We're vey excited to share our programme for the festival weekend with you ...

Friday 25th September to Sunday 27th September 2026

Music & Dance

Friday

15:00 Brewery Tours  (Allendale Brewery)

16:00 Tap Room event at Allendale Brew Company (Allendale Brewery)

19:30 Rain of Animals (Allendale Village Hall)

21:00 Hilltop Hoolies (The King’s Head)

21:00 Joshua Burnside (Allendale Village Hall)

22:00 Dilutey Juice (The Lion House)

Saturday morning and afternoon

10:30 Registration for open mic sessions, hosted by Kev Moore (The Forge Café)

10:45 Open mic sessions (The Forge Café)

12:30 Tamsin Elliott & Tarek  Elazhary (Allendale Village Hall)

14:00 Chris Stout & Catriona McKay (Allendale Village Hall)

14:00 Open mic sessions (The Forge Café)

15:30 Sura Susso (The David Crellin Stage at St. Cuthbert’s Church)

16:00 Family Ceilidh with The Wear’d Aliens (Allendale Village Hall) (Finish at 17:30)

17:00 The Haar (The David Crellin Stage at St. Cuthbert’s Church)

Hadrian Clog and special guests will dance throughout the afternoon in the Marketplace.

Saturday night

18:45 The Wolf procession (The Marketplace)

19:00 The Wolf bonfire (The Marketplace)

20:30 RE:VULVA (Allendale Village Hall)

22:00 Valtos (Allendale Village Hall)

Sunday afternoon

13:30 Lady Maisery (Allendale Village Hall)

15:00 Methera (Allendale Village Hall)

16:30 Johnny & Lillie Flynn (Allendale Village Hall)

Guided Walks, Craft and Music Workshops

Friday

13:00 Isaac’s Tea Trail guided walk with Christine Sherwood (Meet at Isaac’s Well in the centre of Allendale)

17:00 Noisy Folk Songs with Paddy Villiers-Stewart (St. Cuthbert’s Church Hall)

Saturday

10:00 Tree Trail guided walk with Nick Johnson (Meet at Allendale Village Hall)

10:00 Lino printing with Abi Baker (The Medway Building)

10:00 Bodhrán workshop with Steve Bentley (The Lion House)

10:00 Radical Knitting with Penny Grennan (Allendale Methodist Chapel)

13:30 Circle Dancing workshop (St. Cuthbert’s Church Hall)

Sunday

10:00 Needle felting workshop with Ann Shepherd (The Medway Building)

10:30 Singing in our natural voice workshop with Lindsay Joy (The Medway Building)

11:00 A folkloric wander with Amanda Edmiston (from Botanica Fabula) (Meet at Allendale Village Hall)

Spoken Word

Friday

20:00 Quillseekers’ Poetry Evening  (with Alex Corrin-Tachibana) (Emma’s Coffee and Sweets)

Saturday

14:00 The craft of storytelling through the exciting world of Young Adult fantasy with Katherine Livesey (Allendale Youth Ambition)

Sunday

10:30 Christian worship infused with the rich heritage of folk music traditions at Allen Valleys Methodist Church

12:00 Degna Stone and Tahmina Ali (The Session Tent next to Allendale Village Hall)