Due to the sad closure of Milo’s on Station Street, the festival has
had to find new premises for its registered office. We have
successfully negotiated a new Registered Office address, at Saltburn
Community & Arts Association Ltd on Albion Terrace, Saltburn by the
Sea, North Yorkshire TS12 1JW. This will also be the address to send
your postal enquires if you do not use the internet.
We continue to work to find new premises for the: Festival Office,
Box Office, Artists’ Reception and Volunteers’ Reception. You will be
updated in these pages as we make progress.
We are pleased to confirm that the funding has carried over, many of
our regular festival goers have asked that we hold the tickets they paid
for and virtually all of the guests and performers booked for 2020 have
agreed to return to Saltburn in 2021. You will be able to find their
details and websites on the Artists tab above over the coming weeks as
we add them, along with photographs of previous festivals.
It was decided at the Director’s Meeting on October 7th that, as we
are still unsure of the extent to which, Coronavirus infections will
change through the winter, tickets will not go on sale until
after Christmas, depending on the government response to the developing
situation.
Many, of our ticket holders, volunteers, directors,
artists and helpers are in the “at risk” category. I continue
in lockdown now in month seven, due to serious underlying health issues
(lungs & heart) having been informed by my consultants that I will
not survive a Covid-19 infection.
As you know, Saltburn came through the loss of John Taylor in October
2018, to run a superb event in 2019 and this year was to have been the
consolidation of the festival (which started in 1968 at Redcar, 4 miles
up the road) and has run unbroken for 51 years. As we continue to be in
unchartered seas we all have to get through it, so we can emerge in
2021 (hopefully) to continue the tradition and keep our music and
traditions alive.
• Newcastle University Folk Music Degree Showcase (the cream of the 2020 intake)
• Damien Barber (New work funded by PRS Foundation)
• New work: Premier of new Graeme Miles Concert (The Ironopolis Singer)
• New location for the Campsite that will be open to all
• A free shuttle bus between campsite and town
• Working with Friday friends
• Free Festival Fringe events
• Children’s entertainment
• Launch of the John Taylor Memorial Award for composition and performance
• Facebook Page and Facebook group page
• Instagram account
• New exciting and unusual workshops
Saltburn Folk Festival
SC&AA
Albion Terrace
Saltburn by the Sea
North Yorkshire
TS12 1JW
Subject to securing safe venues and it being acceptable to hold
large gatherings, Saltburn folk Festival 2021 will take place on: 12th,
13th, 14th and 15th August.