Beverley Folk Festival started 25 years ago with a group of friends from The White Horse Folk Club (Nellies's) combining their talents and creating an event that was to become one of the best-loved music occasions in the country. From those early days, informal sessions in some of the town's pubs soon became one of the best kept secrets of the event with countless musicians meeting up each year to share tunes and songs in the atmospheric get-togethers.
When the festival took a year off in the mid nineties - it seemed Beverley would be without any folk event at all. This prompted a group of local musicians to run a ceilidh, and a few session events in pubs to fill the void. That was the only year without a major Beverley Folk Festival, but the activities of that year (known as the People’s Voice Festival) have continued ever since - sitting alongside the main programmed events.
Roy Wild - Fringe Organiser, works tirelessly throughout the year to ensure that the town's pubs are filled with great music and an amazing atmosphere. 'Folk friendly' fringe events welcome anyone to come and join in.
More details of the fringe in 2009 will appear in due course.
In the meantime, folk music remains a regular attraction in the local pubs in Beverley throughout the year with regular sessions in The Tiger, The Sun Inn, Forresters Arms (Not the White Horse Folk Club) and many others.