Late Spring Folk Festival launches May 24th
- alba mcvicar
- Apr 30, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: May 25, 2025
A fresh day of musical performances at Dummer Down Brewery in Hampshire
A brand new festival launches next month, on Saturday the 24th of May, at Dummer Down Brewery in Hampshire (RG25 2AR). The festival will feature a number of local and international upcoming talents, including Goblin Band, The Brothers Gillespie, Nick Hart, Maddie Ashman, Spitzer Space Telescope, Dead Pages (the festival’s hosts) and many more supporting acts.
The festival opens its doors at 11am and will run for a full day and evening. There will also be plenty of family-friendly fun and activities, like Morris Dancing with Hook Eagle Morris, face painting with Lauren Mildenberger, a Qi Gong workshop led by Simon J. Lamb, and plenty of other arts & crafts suitable for all ages.
This festival is brought to you by Wiltshire-based traditional folk band Dead Pages, whose song ‘Not Moving On From You’ was recently featured on the BBC’s Introducing… show. Dead Pages was originally a folk club that met for weekly sessions in the corner of a local pub. These gathered some momentum and ended up growing into a new folk scene in the area, with artists regularly travelling from London and further afield for recording sessions and music nights.
The Late Spring Folk Festival is set to become the biggest event for this team and venue with over 200 tickets already sold as of the end of April and a limited number remaining. Spokesperson for the festival, Sam Guinness, says “We can’t wait to welcome people in and show them what we’ve been planning all these months, there are some quite significant birthdays this year so we’re going all out!”
There will be food trucks and a café with many options for eating throughout the day and evening. The festival is taking place at Dummer Down Brewery, a family-run microbrewery located on Dummer Down Farm in Hampshire. Apart from the range of beers that are made on site, the festival will also be selling local wines, ciders and soft drinks. There will also be camping available at the festival, with available running water and toilets (more information on this on their website).
You can read more about the festival on its website and follow Dead Pages’ journey on their Instagram, Spotify and YouTube.
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