Bradford Roots Festival 2025
Sat 18 Jan 7:00pm
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Sat 18 Jan 7:00pm
Wiltshire Music Centre
Wiltshire Music Centre Ashley Road Bradford-on-Avon UK
01225 860 100
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A one-day, indoor Winter festival celebrating community spirit and joyful music
Banish your January blues with our one-day, indoor Winter get-together celebrating community spirit and joyful music. Packed with music, activities, food, dancing and more, this is the ultimate feel-good festival that you just can’t miss.
Activities include:
- Five indoor performance stages with original folk, rock, jazz and acoustic music
- Open Mic slot (1.45pm -3pm) – please apply to take part here
- Poetry session hosted by Dawn Gorman
- Exploring Songwriting with Phil Cooper
- Wassail workshop followed by Kids’ Parade leading into the foyer with morris dancing by Holt Morris
- Evening folk jam – The Transatlantic Sessions
- Family-friendly daytime with workshops, choirs, morris dancing, our big Wassail and children’s procession
- Creative zone with a craft session making folk-inspired wands and headbands between 11am – 3pm
- Little People Chill Zone & Nursing Area (11am – 3pm) – a quiet space for babies, toddlers and their grown-ups
- Food and drink from Meraki and Oak Oven Pizza
- Beer from Kettlesmith’s and cider from Honey’s
- A circus skills workshop from SASS Circus
- Ceilidh Workshops (2 x 40 mins workshops)
- Junk Percussion workshops (2 x 40 mins workshops)
- Mini Maker’s Market on the Mezzanine
- And much more!
Choose from an All Day ticket (11am – 10.30pm) or an Evening Session ticket (7pm – 10.30pm)
One free U12 ticket with every full paying adult day or evening session (£25 or £12)
The Transatlantic Sessions take place in the evening only.
Line Up Below. Please note programme is subject to change.
BAR STAGE
From 11.30am
M3G
Alex Maidment
Becky Lawrence
Jiggidy
Setondji Spirit
Kait Vox Quartet
From 19:00
Adrian Long
Remy
The Sylvertones
JPQ Jon Pearce Quartet
The Bar Stage
MAIN STAGE
From 11.30am
Zone Club
Rock Choir
The Orchestra of Everything
Wassail Workshop with Chris Samuel (2.15pm) followed by a parade and morris dancing from Holt Morris. Children are welcome to join in the parade, which will start from the Creative Zone at 3pm. Clara Atkins, who was originally booked to take this workshop, is unwell
Wiltshire Wailers
Aqaba
From 19:00
DG Solaris
Tariqa
Rivers of England
Main Stage
GOLDEN GUDGEON STAGE
From 11.30am
Evergreen
Chris Yaan
Open Mic
Phil Cooper – Songwriting: Is It Witchcraft?
A Band named Brian
Poetry @ Roots
From 19:00
Visions of Dylan
Phil Cooper
Edd Donovan and The Wandering Moles
Golden Gudgeon Stage
WILD & WOOLLEY STAGE
From 11.30am
SASS Circus skills workshop for all
Ceilidh Workshop (Two 40mins Workshops @ 12pm & 12.50pm)
Junk Percussion Workshop (Two 30mins Workshops @ 1.45pm & 2.30pm)
The Free Spirits
Sloe Jam
From 19:00
Butane Skies
The Worried Men
Wild and Woolley Stage
TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS (in the Creative Space room)
From 7pm
Brought to you by the people behind Frome’s regular folk jam, aka The Transatlantic Sessions in Frome’s Lamb and Fountain pub. A drop-in, improvised all-evening folk session in the Creative Space room (Nestlé) where local musicians will play together. Bring an instrument if you want to join in.
Makers' Market on the Mezzanine (11am - 3pm)
Food & Drink
