When: 29-31 August 2025
Where: Moseley Park, Birmingham, England
In a week’s time we will all be making our annual pilgrimage to the delightful surroundings of Moseley Park and Pool for what will be the 19th edition of the Moseley Folk & Arts Festival. And looking at the programme of entertainment that is lined up for us, it is going to be just as brilliant as ever.
Looking first at the music, this year’s headliners are The Waterboys, Father John Misty, and Doves who will top the bill on the festival’s main stage on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night, respectively.
And an exceptionally strong undercard includes BC Camplight, Fisherman’s Friends, Lightning Seeds, Lisa O’Neill, Mercury Rev, Peter Doherty, and This Is The Kit.
As part of its continuing initiative with the Moonshine Collective Industry Programme (MCIP), Moseley Folk & Arts Festival again presents several BIMM Birmingham artists over the course of the weekend, including this year Fern, Bo Bardot, Dear Lily, and Freya Gamblin.
But it’s not all about music at Moseley Folk Festival, something to which its fabulous Arts programme will firmly attest. There’s comedy courtesy of Spencer Jones, Harry Jenkins, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Marcel Lucont, Brum legend Barbara Nice with an on-stage ‘Blind Date,’ Scott Bennett, and Rachel Baker.
Then there is poetry with the Three Poets – aka Forward Prize winners Luke Kennard and Bohdan Piasecki, and Isabel Galleymore, winner of the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2020 – who will be reciting their latest works on Saturday with the lauded poet (writer and TV producer) Henry Normal doing likewise the following day.
As a further part of the festival’s popular Arts strand, Friday at Moseley Folk will see a screening of a new short film The Many Lives of Stewart Johnson, which explores the life and career of Birmingham pedal steel player Stewart Johnson, who will also be performing a special post-screening set.
And the Heath Bookshop – an independent bookshop located in Kings Court in the South Birmingham suburb of Kings Heath – will be introducing Anna Doble, whose book, Connection Is A Song is both a coming-of-age story and a journey though the colourful sounds of the 1990s; Indonesian Australian writer Michael Malay who will be revealing more about his Wainwright Prize-winning book, Late Night; as well hosting Brum Library Zine, with Black Country writer Liz Berry, novelist Catherine O’Flynn, and guests.
And not forgetting Folk on the Slope, a delightful area of the festival site where you can enjoy Weaving & Spinning, Woodwork Demos & Workshops, Storytelling, and Circus Raj.
Here is the day-by-day schedule.
For further information about this year’s Moseley Folk & Arts Festival and how to get the last few remaining tickets, please visit HERE.
And here is a Highlights Reel from last year’s festival:
