The festival is proud to have secured almost £26,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to deliver a unique folk music project to Shrewsbury primary schools over the next three years.

Each year there will be a week-long project which sees folk artists go into local schools and work with children to pass on traditional folk music, dance and drama skills; this year the project will concentrate on traditional folk arts from England, and then look in turn at the folk heritage of Wales and Scotland.

The work in schools takes place in June each year, and in August the musicians and bands working in school will also perform at the festival, where the all festival attendees (including the school children and their families) will have chance to work with the musicians again.

We’re recording the events of the week in pictures, and this area of the website will record the whole event in details and explain and expand on the history and heritage of the traditional song and dance covered by the children.

We’re obviously proud to have the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund for this innovative project, and believe this is an important part of the festival, as well as being vital for the continuation of folk arts in Great Britain.

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