8 – 15 August 2025, 7 – 14 August 2026

The Festival runs from the evening of Friday 8th August until Friday 15th August 2024. The first full day of the festival is Saturday 9th August 2024.

This is the 60th anniversary of Broadstairs Folk Week

 All tickets can be purchased via this website, or by phoning 01843 604080. Individual ticket information and Festival Week, Weekend or Day tickets with or without camping are bookable online through the shop button.

Prices for 2025 will be available in October.

2025 Souvenir Programmes will be available online in June 2025.

2025 Saturday 9th August 5.30pm – The parade starts in the High Street by the War memorial and processes down the High Street , onto the seafront Promenade culminating in a show at the Bandstand.

Saturday 10th  – Friday 16th August 2024. Daily from 10am to 8.30pm.

The Official Broadstairs Folk Week Pub Gig programme begins on Saturday 9th August until Friday 15th August 2025. 

Information about playing/singing at pub sessions in Folk Week is all available in the Souvenir Programme.

There will be no fireworks at Folk Week.

We are unable to offer refunds on tickets.

There are no discounts on Individual Tickets.

There are Concessionary tickets on Festival Week Season tickets only. 

Our Festival Week Lite ticket (with or without camping) is for people who want to pick and choose which evening concerts they attend and buy them separately. Afternoon concerts, small venue events, the dances, ceilidhs and most workshops are included in the Festival Lite.

There are no discounts on individual tickets.

Children under 7 are free.

The Box Office at the Queen’s Road Baptist Centre, Queen’s Rd, Broadstairs CT10 1NU will be open the week before Folk Week. 

You need a Festival Ticket to be able to camp.

10am on Friday 8th August 2025

All campers have to leave by midday Saturday 16th August 2025

Yes but there are no electric hook ups.

No dogs are allowed in Folk Week ticketed venues. However, please advise if you have a support dog at time of booking.

The St Pancras fast train gets you from London to Broadstairs in around 76 minutes and the town’s railway station is only a 15 minute walk from the campsite or – in the other direction – the town and the beautiful Viking Bay.

If you click onto our Travel section, you can book your tickets from our website, with South Eastern.

Broadstairs Train Station is centrally located.

National Express coaches drop off in the High Street – just outside Pierremont Park (CT10 1JX) near to where our Main Arena venue is situated.

Parking is problematic in Broadstairs during the festival so the best thing to do is either arrive by car and then park it and only use it again when you leave – or use public transport. The venues are all within walking distance of each other and the campsite. Please check in advance for roadwork information.

Folk Week takes place in venues around the town and the train station is centrally located.

There are public car parks around the town.

Broadstairs Folk Week is an independent organization – a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee that depends on a combination of ticket income, public grants, commercial sponsorship and individual donations from the Friends of Folk Week, 200 Club and other fund-raising such as collections on the street to exist and to stay in the town and not become a green-field site festival outside of Broadstairs.

You only need to enjoy being part of a great community event.

What? All those people in the town and Folk Week doesn’t make a smacking great profit every year?    Well no actually, Folk Week is a registered charity not for profit. The festival has to raise funds from a wide variety of sources – Broadstairs & St.Peter’s Town Council,  the County Council, commercial sponsors, lottery tickets, merchandising, collecting tins and of course, Box Office revenue. The Friends of Folk Week also send a message to all of these funders that the festival is supported and greatly cared about.

Please email details to info@broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk and the festival will be in touch if further information is required.

Folk Week is a registered charity and has the street collection license for the town for the duration of the festival. If you would like to busk and collect for the festival – please let us know in advance. All musicians and dancers busking in Broadstairs should be collecting for the festival and will be issued a collecting tin.