Are they connected? Mr Happy asks...

Here's an attempt at an explanation....
It's a similar situation happening here, as happened a wee while back at Holmfirth.
The organisers of the 'Dent Folk Festival' of recent years (as explained in the opening post above) wish to move 'on' and make their festival 'bigger' - this means they've moved out of Dent completely - but have retained the 'name' as they've earned a good reputation as an excellent festival with that name.
However....
the townsfolk/shops/businesses etc of Dent felt (shall we say) somewhat abandoned by the move up the road and have elected to organise their own festival so that the town itself retains that particular week-end's character and economy, which had become the norm for the town.

More or less the same scenario as Holfirth endured not so long back - and now there are two separate fests, over that way, as a result.

I wish both fests great success and I sincerely hope the two draw even more folk to the Dales, this summer, than is usual.