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Mid-morning to Early Evening
Local Performer Showcase Events
These are the free, local showcase events that take place between lunchtime and early evening.
Oxford Folk Festival 2026 - Alphabetical List of Local Performers
Covered Market
12:00 Craig McLearie
13:00 Linda Hopkins
14:00 Aisling (Leiden link)
15:00 Fair Steel Albion
16:00 Sepia Tones Collective
17:00 Daughter of the Water
18:00 Quest for Folk
19:00 Break
19:30 Ock Street Band (band – concert)
21:30 End
Blackwells – Norrington Room
11:00 Jaybirds
12:00 Short Drag Roger
13:00 Quest for Folk
14:00 End
Modern Art Oxford
12:00 Rachel Chai
12:45 Pete Joshua
13:30 Heather Niness
14:15 Mark Ashworth
15:00 Henderson: Hooper
15:45 Shiraz
16:30 Mark Austin
15:15 End
Old Fire Station Cafe
16.00 John & Di Cullen
17.00 Linda Watkins
18.00 Hoverhawk
19.30 End
Westgate Centre - Elite Busking (Buskstop)
12:00 Warp, Weft and Weaver
12:45 Ian Page
13:30 Machine Breakers tbc
14:15 Anabel
15:00 Mona & the Rev Doctor
15:45 Messy Mosa and the Fretless
16:30 End
Westgate Centre - Leiden Square
12:00 Oxford Folk Festival Celebration
13:15 Shiraz
14:30 Short Drag Roger
15:15 Barricane
16:00 Celtic Heartbeat
17:15 End
Westgate Centre - Roof Terrace
10:30 Dance
11:15 Dance
12:00 Dance
12:45 John & Di Cullen
13:30 Mandy Woods
14:15 Dance
15:00 Dance
15:45 Break
16:30 Greg Mayston Trio
17:15 End
Westgate Library - Saturday, April 12th 2025
12:45 Paul Robertson
13:30 Ian Hall
14:15 Pete Joshua
13.15 Mansfield Smith
15.00 Heather Niness
15.45 Veronica Marshall Hammond
16.30 May Tumi
17.15 End
Dances
Family and SEN Ceilidh: Family Ceilidh Oxford at St Columba's Church
This is a fun, friendly and inclusive dance, suitable for families and people with special educational needs. Family Ceilidh Oxford organises relaxed and welcoming dances at Cutteslowe Pavilion on a regular basis, and it's great to see them back at Oxford Folk Festival. Expect great tunes and fun dances. Non-gendered calls will be used.
We have a new, lovely venue for this year's Family & SEN Ceilidh with the wonderful the Family Ceilidh Oxford. It is close to public transport links in the city centre.
Doors 10:15am, dance 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM BST
Information and tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/oxfolkceilidhs/1982143
Contra with Trip Hazard and caller Charlotte Rich-Griffin at St Columba's Church
Doors 2:15, dance 14:30-17:00 - St Columba's Church, Alfred St, Oxford, OX1 4EH
Information and tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/oxfolkceilidhs/1982162
Workshops
Museum of Oxford
09:30 - 10:30 - Shortdrag Roger
12:00 - 13:00 - Jon Bennett - for improvers on guitar
13:45 - 14:45 - Oxford Climate Choir – learn choral singing with beautiful songs
15:15 - 16:15 - Roary Skaista leads SEN Workshop
Westgate Library
11:00 - 11:45 - Children and Families Folk Workshop (primary school age)
12:00 - 12:45 - Youth Folk Group demonstration and Try out (for years 6 to 11)
Sessions
12:00 - 14:00 - QOFF (Queer, Open, Friendly, Folk) - The Jolly Farmers, 20 Paradise St, Oxford OX1 1LD
14:00 - 16:00 - Auntie Shanty (shanties with a feminist twist) - Tha Jolly Farmers, 20 Paradise St, Oxford OX1 1LD
14:30 - 18:00 - English Session - Mitchell Keely - The Slow and Steady, 38 Abingdon Rd, Oxford OX1 4PD
14:30 - 18:00 - Irish Session - Jack Evans and Matt Lenahan - James St Tavern, 38 James St, Oxford OX4 1EU
14:30 - 19:00 - Singing Session - Ian Giles - The Half Moon, 17-18 St Clement's St, Oxford OX4 1AB
14:30 - 17:30 - American Jam (Old Time, Bluegrass, Country) - The Star, 21 Rectory Rd, Oxford OX4 1BU
15:00 - 18:00 - Euro Session - Ravi Sawney - The Wig and Pen (Upstairs Function Room), 9-13 George St, Oxford OX1 2AU
Morris Dancing
There will be morris dancing at various locations in Oxford from 10:30 to 18:00 - See schedule below
Evening Events
Ticketed Concert
John Kirkpatrick & Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne + Erin Mansfield at New Road Baptist Church
Doors open at 7:00pm, concert 7:30 - 9:30pm - New Road Baptist Church, 14 Bonn Square, Oxford OX1 1LQ
Information and tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/oxfolkceilidhs/2062295
Dance
Ceilidh with Polkaworks and caller Fee Lock at The Newman Rooms
Doors 7:30pm, dance 7:45-10:30m - The Newman Rooms, Rose Place, off St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1RD
Information and tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/oxfolkceilidhs/1982132
Sessions
19:00 - 22:00 - English Session - Yasha Janoo - The Oxford Blue, 32 Marston St, Oxford OX4 1JU
19:30 - 23:30 - Irish Session - Noreen Cullen and Adrian Burns - The Isis Farmhouse, Haystacks Corner, The Towing Path, Iffley, Iffley Lock, Oxford OX4 4EL
22:00 - 01:30 - Late Session - The Royal Blenheim, 13 Saint Ebbe's St, Oxford OX1 1PT