The countdown to Purbeck Valley Folk Festival is on.

The small and friendly family festival is will be held on a farm on the beautiful Jurassic coastline from Thursday, August 15 to Sunday, August 18.

It features folk and roots music from around the world, a huge craft area, and healing zone.

Festivalgoers will be able to enjoy four evenings and three full days of outstanding, original young folk, roots and world music across five stages.

Highlights of the line-up this year include TikTok shanty sensation The Longest Johns, African kora player Seckou Keita with his 8-piece Senegalese band, BBC6Music favourite John Smith, and Gentleman Jack theme tune writers/singers O’Hooley & Tidow.

All kids' activities are free and included in the ticket price.

Children can enjoy activities that include storytelling, climbing wall, archery, The Circus of Science, (where kids can watch and take part in exciting experiments and have fun blowing stuff up!), theatre workshops, lots of crafts, puppet shows, bubble displays, baby/toddler Rhyme Time sessions, face-painting, a treasure hunt, bouncy castles, fancy dress, maypole dancing and Morris dance workshops, family ceilidh, space-hopper obstacle course, welly wanging, and circus skills performances and workshops including juggling, diablo, devil’s sticks, unicycling, stilt walking, low level trapeze, an inflatable tumble mat.

The craft area has grown year on year and there are workshops available in crochet, wicker modelling, macrame, cyanotype printing, clay modelling/pottery, bunting printing, tie-dye, blacksmithing, traditional woodturning, pebble painting, origami, plus, loads more.

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This year’s music workshops include foot-percussion from Quebecois style fiddle player Arthur Coates, harmonica with Rigmarollers’ Ed Hopgood, and Folk Orc -‘Come and Try’ instruments try-outs, which allow everyone the opportunity to try out instruments that they might not get a chance to otherwise.

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival is set in the middle of the Purbeck hills with views across Corfe Castle, the Swanage Steam railway running alongside the family camping field, as well as positioned just down the road from the Jurassic Coast with beautiful landmarks like Durdle Door. 

Tickets cost from £175 (£85/£40) for the weekend from Thursday to Sunday, including camping. 

To book tickets, and for more information visit www.purbeckvalleyfolkfestival.co.uk