Whitby Folk Week

Name: Whitby Folk Week
Start: 2027-08-21T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2027-08-27T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Venues across Whitby

21–27 August 2027

Photo: Alistair Young, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A week of concerts, ceilidhs, sessions, dance displays and workshops in venues all over the town.

Whitby Folk Week has run since 1965 and fills the week before the August bank holiday with hundreds of events: concerts, dance displays on the streets and the bandstand, workshops, singarounds and late-night sessions in the pubs.

Dates shown are the usual pattern for this event and should be confirmed with the organiser before travelling.

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