A FUNDRAISING campaign has been launched to ensure a popular festival can go ahead this summer. The team behind Bridport Folk Festival has launched a Crowdfunder page to cover the up front costs of putting on the event. Traditionally, the funds are raised by local bands and artists through live concerts and busking at Bucky Doo Square. As this has not been possible over the past year, the team is asking the community to support the festival. The Crowdfunder campaign has been set up with a target of £2,300. After being rescheduled on several occasions, the folk festival is currently scheduled for the weekend of August 13 to August 15.
BRIDPORT Folk Festival has been rescheduled once more and will now take this place this summer. The event was originally set to go ahead in July, before being postponed until September as many summer events looked as if they would be cancelled again due to the Covid pandemic. But the September dates clashed with other events taking place in the town - namely the Bridport Hat Festival, which will be taking place on September 4, if it does go ahead. As a result of this, organisers of the folk festival have announced a new date - the weekend of August 13 to August 15.
BRIDPORT Folk Festival has been postponed until September. This year s festival was originally planned to take place between Friday, July 23 until Sunday, July 25, but organisers are now planning to run the event over the first weekend of September, on Saturday 4 and Sunday, 5. The team behind the festival say they are ever hopeful despite the current situation in the country with many events expected to be cancelled for a second year as a result of the pandemic. A spokesman for the Bridport Folk Festival said: 2020 did us no favours which sadly led to the cancellation of the Bridport Folk Festival and this year isn t looking much better so far.