Jon Boden, Sam Kelly and The Lost Boys, Lau, Simpson, Cutting and Kerr, Beoga, Michael Chapman, Martin Carthy and John Kirkpatrick are among the first wave of acts set to appear at this years FolkEast Festival.

The three day festival will return to the glorious 300-acre Suffolk estate of 16^th century Glemham Hall, from Friday 18th - Sunday 20th August.  The festival offers a refreshingly different line-up across six stages (including St Andrew’s Church, the open air Sunset Stage and the hidden woodland Soapbox Stage), Suffolk food fare, two authentic ‘village’ pubs serving festival ales plus possibly the smallest pub in the UK, The Halfway Inn.

Then there’s the FolkEast Art Arcade, packed dance programme, donkey rides, children’s activities, yoga, poetry, storytelling, the Eastfolk Chronicle Kinedrome (showing folk and local interest films) and tours of Glemham Hall by Major Philip Cobbold.

Other artists added to the line up are: Damien O’Kane Band, The Young’uns, Will Pound and Eddy Jay, John Spiers, Ninebarrow, The Broadside Boys, John Ward and Shorelark.