Stainsby Festival is a small, annual folk music

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 event held in the Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

 village of Stainsby

Stainsby

Stainsby is a small village in Derbyshire, England. It is near to the towns of Chesterfield and Bolsover, and the villages of Heath and Doe Lea. The M1 motorway skirts past the village....

, England. It usually takes place in July over three days.

The festival is one of the oldest folk festivals in the country, with the first being held in 1969. In 2008 it celebrated its 40th Anniversary festival - called appropriately enough - "Child of the Sixties".

It has music venues and several family-oriented events, with children's storytelling tents, group rhythm workshops and face painting activities. Camping is available in a field adjoining the main arena.

The festival has two stages. A large marquee constitutes the main stage, and a smaller tent makes up the second, also known as 'The Space'. Each year's lineup is varied, but tends to be predominantly acoustic

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 folk.

The festival usually ends with a procession, often involving the use of fire. In 2005, the procession was centered around a flame

Flame

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, apparently originating from the fires of Hiroshima

Hiroshima

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 after the atomic bomb was dropped. This coincided with the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

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Artists appearing in 2006

Friday 14 July

• Spiers and Boden
  Spiers and Boden
  Spiers and Boden are an English folk duo. John Spiers plays melodeon and concertina, while Jon Boden sings and plays fiddle and guitar while stamping the rhythm on a stomp box.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dragonsfly

Saturday 15 July

• Ember
• The Watchsnatchers
• Chris and Kellie While
• KTB Collective
• The Lee Gordon Trio
• JJ Gilmour
• Rosie Doonan and Ben Murray
• Dougie MacLean
  Dougie MacLean
  Dougie MacLean OBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist.His career started with a traditional band, The Tannahill Weavers, in 1976. His solo career started in 1981 and since then he has recorded numerous albums...
  
  
• SilverWheel

Sunday 16 July

• Edwina Hayes
• Uiscedwr
  Uiscedwr
  Uiscedwr is a trio which plays British folk music influenced by world music. The group started off as a trio and was originally based in Manchester.Uiscedwr won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2002 ....
  
  
• Pete Morton
  Pete Morton
  Pete Morton is a folk singer-songwriter who currently lives in London, England.-Biography:Morton was born in Leicester, England on July 30, 1964, and was educated at Countesthorpe Community College where he spent most of his time in the music block learning guitar and playing new wave and punk songs...
  
  
• Witchnotes
• Kirsty McGee
  Kirsty McGee
  Kirsty McGee is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who started performing on the Manchester band scene when she was fourteen but then moved onto the acoustic music scene where she built herself a reputation with well-crafted original songs...
  
   and Matt Martin
• Boo Hewerdine
• Jiggery Pipery

Artists appearing in 2009

Friday 17 July

• Hall Brothers
• Crucible
  Crucible
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• SnapDragon
  SnapDragon
  SnapDragon is a contemporary jazz band based in San Antonio, Texas. The group released their debut CD, "Stealing a Moment" on Humbug Records in 2008, and the 10-song CD soon broke the Top 100 in U.S radio airplay...
  
  
• Edward II

Saturday 18 July

• Fidola
  Fidola
  1. The fidola is a musical instrument invented in the 1980’s by luthier Alan Carruth of Newport, New Hampshire. It is shaped like a guitar, but is the size of a viola, and has five strings strung like a standard violin and viola . It is played with a standard viola bow, preferably strung with black...
  
  
• Roger Davis
  Roger Davis
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• Isambarde 5
• Luke Jackson
• Boy
  Boy
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• Baskery
  Baskery
  Baskery is a Swedish blues/southern rock band, comprising the three sisters Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson. Their first album, Fall Among Thieves, was released in Europe in 2008, and in the UK in January 2009.-History:...
  
  

Sunday 19 July

• 4 Square
• Holly Taymar
• Ruth Notman Band
• Crucible
  Crucible
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• Flossie Malavialle
• Hall Brothers
• Dancin Bear Ceilidh