BOD will once more be heading out for the festivals this summer!  Grab your calendar, and mark these dates. There are still some early bird specials to be had on tickets, but move quickly!

Ely Folk Festival 12 – 14 July 2024 held just outside Ely, Cambridgeshire. This is a friendly and relaxed small festival, with ceilidhs and Morris dancing, as well as the daily music line-ups and a host of workshops on music making. Lots of childrens activities too.

John will be running a bodhrán workshop and playing for some of the Morris sides but we will not be attending as market vendors. We believe the workshop is planned for Saturday mid-day and will let you know when we have more specific information. If you were hoping to see and try our drums at the festival, get in touch with us through the Contact Form. We are local to Ely, and it may be possible for you to visit our workshop by appointment.

Warwick Folk Festival 25 – 28 July 2024 is held in the Castle Park in Warwick. A wonderful family-friendly festival, presenting the very best in traditional and contemporary folk arts, with a great musical line-up. We thoroughly enjoyed it last year as first time attendees and are very much looking forward to returning this summer.

BOD will be there as vendors, with our full array of drums, beaters and accessories. We are hoping to offer workshops, but this is still in discussion with festival organisers, so we will keep you updated as we know more.

Folk East 16 – 18 August 2024 on the beautiful grounds of Glemham Hall in Suffolk. Wonderfully family friendly, with lots of children’s activities, several unique venues to suit the many different musical acts on show, a great array of craft vendors and of course we love the Music Village.

If you’re not familiar, Folk East is known for the Music Village – a special set of marquees grouped together for all of us selling a wide range of musical instruments. There’s a great space in the middle for a session for a few hours each day, otherwise, just a good place to sit and try out your new drum! We will be there as vendors, of course.

Towersey Festival 23 – 26 August 2024 at the Claydon Estate in Buckingham is celebrating their 60th year this summer. Another very family oriented festival with lots of activities, theatre and shows, comedy and dance besides the terrific musical line up.

BOD will be there as vendors, with our full range of drums, beaters and accessories.  John will be offering daily workshops, details closer to the date.

Music Worldwide Summer Camp 29 Aug – 1 Sept at Hulver Farm in Bungay, Suffolk.  We find it hard to think of this as anything other than “Drum Camp” as it used to be known. This is a unique and fabulous festival if you love drumming. It’s an immersive weekend of drumming and dance workshops and communal music making which spans traditions and continents with musicians and dancers from lots of different West African, Latin American, Middle Eastern traditions and more. If you want to learn about and try your own hand at world drumming traditions, this is the festival for you, with workshops all day, every day, for every level of performer.

And of course, BOD will be there too, running Bodhrán workshops daily and with our marquee full of drums, beaters and accessories.

We look forward to seeing you this summer!