EXCITING NEWS!

The FolkeFest team has joined forces with artists behind Folkestone Puppet Theatre, Sound Emergence, Ecstatic Dance and Folkestone DocsFest, under And Gather CIC. A re-launch of FolkeFest is being planned for Spring 2027. Further details coming soon.

PAST EVENTS

FolkeFest - A festival of contemporary folk arts in Folkestone, Kent (UK). The first pilot festival took place in 2022 under Moving Being C.I.C. and details can be found on this site, which has been retained for archival and documentary purposes.

02/07/22 FolkeFest takes over DIY4Folke for Open Quarter 2022

With:

Sarah Rennix - Unaccompanied folk songs (Stage time 4:30pm)

Florence Glen - Folk-infused singer-songwriter (Stage time 5:30pm)

M.G. Boulter - Rich and evocative story songs (Stage time 6:30pm)

Pay What You Want on the door

Venue: DIY4Folke, 62 Tontine Street, Folkestone CT201JP. Bar Open.

M G BOULTER

In 2021 songwriter and musician M G Boulter released his album ‘Clifftown’, a collection of songs charting the characters, personal experiences and hidden histories of his home town of Southend-on-Sea on the Essex coast. In this special Clifftown live show M G explores this seaside suburbia through its unique stories, specially shot film and his evocative songwriting, which encompasses both the neon lights and burnt sugar smells of a Saturday night seafront but also the solitary Essex noir of the salt marshland.

M G has been quietly working at creating rich and evocative story songs since 2013. Garnering praise from reviewers like Uncut describing his work as “gorgeous in a word” and R2 listing him as “a weapons grade songwriter”, M G creates vignettes of suburban lives and seaside communities and is a contemporary voice in the long tradition of the singer-songwriter. Often referred to as the artist’s artist M G has been a much sought after collaborator in the folk and Americana scenes, having significant tenures in the Simone Felice Group, The Duke and the King, Emily Portman’s Coracle Band, Blue Rose Code and Jon Boden’s Remnant Kings.

“Brings Freshness to Songwriting” - The Daily Telegraph

“Highly Recommended” - Independent on Sunday

“Beautiful, intelligent and understated music - This is further proof that Boulter is one of this island’s most talented and underrated songwriters” - R2 Magazine