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Wimborne Folk Festival
Over three days during the month of June the small town of Wimborne is host to the annual Wimborne Folk Festival. With numerous workshops, concerts, bands, and in some years up to 60 morris and folk dance teams giving 250+ performances infront of 30,000+ visitors – it's a ' not to be missed ' entry in the Dorset calendar of events.
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The pictures here give only a small flavour of this major event, which packs the town from the starting procession on the Friday evening through to the last jig on the Sunday evening – leaving all with sore feet and buzzing heads! Saturday and Sunday are busiest – when the streets around the small town centre are filled to capacity with Morris dancers, musicians and and a throng of appreciative spectators.
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See also: More pictures from Wimborne Minster and also the Swanage Folk Festival Nearby locations that also feature in galleries on this site: Other sites on the webThe official Wimborne Folk Festival site The English Folk Dance Project: A brief history of Morris Dancing, by Steve Douglas The Dorset Page: Wimborne Minster – local information and links to further resources on the web Maps of the area on streetmap.co.uk: 1:50,000 – detail, 1:250,000 – locality and route to get there
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