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The Ragged Bear 2026 line-up is here.

• Skinny Lister
• Greenman Rising
• The Haar
• RuMac
• Nick Parker Music and Ben Wain
• Man The Lifeboats
• True Foxes
• Lauren South Music
• The Band From County Hell
• Gaelforce
• Malin Hill
• Liam Vincent & The Odd Foxes
• Hobnob Jane & The Backyard Frogs
• Stevie Simpson & The Damn Fine Folk
• B-Sydes
• Tanglemist
• Alabama Breeze

See our gig listing too.

"Arguably the best value festival on the circuit", and we've frozen our prices again!

Returning favourites to the madness are our friends Erstwhile Border Morris and The Hawkesbury Trawlermen will be joining us to share shanties across the site.

With lots more fun to come, the only thing left is to ask, have you got your tickets yet?

Tickets from: https://www.raggedbear.com

Updated April 30th 2026

I got to thinking about making a list of all the festivals we've played at over the years. So having a think, and picking a few brains a list came together. If there's any missing, drop us an email or tweet.

• Battle of Cropredy Bridge – 375 Commemoration
• Battle of Evesham Mediaeval Festival
• Battle of Tewkesbury
• Bearded Theory
• Bearded Theory Spring Gathering
• Beardy Folk Festival
• Beautiful Days
• Bloxfest
• Bo Peep Cider Festival
• Boomtown Fair
• Cloggersfest
• Clun Greenman Festival
• Compton Verney Festival
• Cropredy Fringe
• Deerstock
• Detectival
• Eden Festival
• Festival at the Edge
• Folk on the Field (Anglesey)
• Gibfest
• Govida Festival
• Lakefest
• Leigh Folk Festival
• Love Folk Festival
• Midlands History Festival
• Moira Furnace Folk Festival
• Norsehampton Viking Festival
• Stratford-upon-Avon Fabfest
• Stratford-upon-Avon River Festival
• The Green Gathering
• The Mercian Gathering
• Trowbridge Festival
• Watchet Festival
• Wigan Diggers

... and of course, our own http://raggedbear.com/

Coming up in 2026:

• Ely Folk Festival
• Hutton Rudby Folk Festival
• Leamington Peace Festival
• Midsummer Middlewich
• Cream of the Crop
• Headland Folk Festival, Hartlepool

These are just the festivals, so this does not include all of the folk clubs, gigs at music venues, private parties and ceilidhs, dozens of re-enactor, Viking, Civil War, Napoleonic Associations events etc etc that we've played.