Beverley Folk Festival started over 20 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 Festival Director Chris Wade (one of the founding committee members) 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.

Details of the 2008 Fringe festival will be updated in due course.