Organisers of England’s newest winter folk event – the Frome Folk Festival – are offering a special seasonal present to festival goers and their friends and families.

The cost of the competitively-priced Earlybird weekend tickets is to be frozen right up to the Somerset event on February 18/19 – with absolutely no booking fees. The goodwill gesture means weekend tickets can be bought for just £58 (£48 concessions) and a family weekend ticket for two adults and two under 15s will cost just £190.

Says organiser Jan Ayers: “We know current money constraints could make people think twice about buying festival tickets outside EarlyBird offer periods. So we thought we’d celebrate Frome Folk Festival’s first year by extending our EarlyBird prices right up to the event so that people get the chance to treat themselves or their friends and families to a Christmas present with a difference - and something to help banish the winter blues!”

The special-priced tickets will offer two days of top-class roots and acoustic music with more than 20 acts descending on the picturesque Somerset market town including headliners Steve Knightley (of Show of Hands), feted duo John Spiers and Jon Boden and master songwriter Chris Wood.

Day tickets, at an unbeatable £32, will also go on sale from Friday (December 2).

The winter festival - to be staged in and around The Cheese and Grain venue – will feature a host of acts nominated for the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards:

Spiers and Boden, who will also host a ceilidh at Frome, are nominated for Best Duo, whilst Boden is nominated for Folk Singer of the Year.

Other nominees coming to Frome are the dazzling Tim Edey and Brendan Power (Best Duo) with Edey also in the running for the top honour of Musician of the Year.

Another double nominee is Jackie Oates for Folk Singer of the Year and Best Album for her latest release, Saturnine, whilst one of the fastest-rising folk acts of 2011 - the North West trio Pilgrims’ Way - are nominated for the coveted Horizon Award (for most promising emerging act).Bella Hardy is also in the running for Best Original Song for her composition The Herring Girl.

Other Frome-bound acts include Bristol’s “nu-folk” innovator Jim Moray, top West Country duos Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston, Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin and Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman plus award-winning Jamie Smith’s Mabon, Bella Hardy, Jane Taylor, Dyer Cummings, Belshazzar’s Feast, Elfynn, Eddie Martin and Frome Street Bandits.

Keeping the Christmas spirit flowing, both Pilgrims’ Way and Frome’s own acclaimed singer songwriter Jane Taylor have special downloadable Christmas recordings out on iTunes and Amazon. Jane’s song is called Oh December while Pilgrims’ Way’s EP Shining Gently All Around includes an unusual take on The Incredible String Band’s sixties song Chinese White which they have retitled Magic Christmas Tree. www.pilgrims-way.net www.janetaylor.co.uk

Frome Folk Festival will run from 9am -11pm both days tickets available from here

In addition to The Cheese and Grain, other festival events are due to take place at Westway Cinema, Rook Lane Chapel and pubs in the town including The Archangel. There will also be a lively Morris dance programme as well as workshops, singarounds and market stalls.

Indoor camping will be available at the town’s United Reformed Church