KELSALL will be alive with song this bank holiday weekend at the annual Chester Folk Festival.
Performances from the best in acoustic live music, comedy and dance will ensure there is something for all the family at the four-day extravaganza, which kicks off tomorrow and finishing on Monday.
A packed schedule of events, including concerts, workshops, singalongs, craft displays and children’s entertainment is planned for the 32nd annual festival on Kelsall’s Village Green.
But music will feature most prominently, with performances from folk bands including Belshazzar’s Feast, Finest Kind, The Carrivick Sisters, Colum Sands, The Waite Collective and Revival.
Dance groups The Aardvark Ceilidh Band and The Time Bandits will also be strutting their stuff, amongst others, and there will be entertainment from troupes including Chester City Morris Men, Haddenham Hoofers, Bradshaw Mummers and the White Hart Morris Men.
For the children, entertainment will be provided by Panic Circus, a travelling, non-animal circus-clown-theatre outfit.
The festival is not only popular with visitors but residents alike.
Mal Waite,one of the festival organisers, said: “Kelsall is a very strong community and we have lots of support from the locals.
“It’s a nice way to bring people together. We get people from all over the country attending, and the atmosphere is lovely.
Natalie Read, clerk of Kelsall Parish Council added: “The Folk Festival; is very good for the local community and the vast amount of residents embrace it every year.”
