Hartlepool Folk Festival

Hartlepool Folk Festival celebrates North East culture while also featuring the most prestigious names in British folk music, all on the beautiful North Sea coast.

Family Folk Festival

If this isn’t already exciting enough, on Saturday and Sunday, The Hartlepool Family Folk Festival is BACK from for 2 FREE days of fun, arts, crafts and children’s entertainment. This will take place in the public space around the Borough Hall on the Headland, known locally as ‘The Squircle”. There are direct buses all day long between the Headland and the NMRN.

The Family Folk Festival will feature all manner of daytime delights, from marvellous music, circus entertainers, whirling dancers, a spectacular sea monster, and even stories told from a pedal-powered Gypsy caravan! You can create, make noise, watch, listen, and join in with loads of fun activities each afternoon.

But as the light fades, shades and spirits come to life. Magical images and music emanate from a mysterious glowing wagon;  the ghosts of the great deer that gave Hartlepool its name emerge from the dark; and on Sunday evening, a glorious fiery procession of myth and wonders wends its way from the Town Circle to the sea, for a final performance of music, light and shadow.