Ana, the two BIG festivals, that is week long one's, are Sidmouth as mentioned above and Whitby. Whitby falls the week before our August Bank Holiday and thus the dates change each year.

However it is a massive festival that more or less takes over the whole town. The difficulty is not finding music the difficulty is avoiding it if you want some quiet time! For the festival proper there are about 20 venues hosting over 600 events lasting over 1100 hours. It is predominantly a traditional festival celebrating mainly English and Scottish music with a liberal application of Irish and Welsh thrown in. There may be a little music from elsewhere to boot.

THEN there is the fringe which in some ways in bigger than the festival. Numerous sessions are held in many pubs after the "organised" event and some pubs not used by the festival have all day (and part of the night) sessions. In these you are likely to hear every variety of folk (and other styles) that your little heart could desire.

Whitby really is very good!!