Bristol’s first Folk Festival in 32 years was back with a bang over the May Day holiday weekend as glitter and confetti cannons showered the Colston Hall stage at the end of supergroup Bellowhead’s flourishing finale.

Voted a resounding success, the bustling three-day festival fielded some of the biggest names in folk as its headliners, drawing around 2,000 people - from all over the South West to as far afield as Scotland - to the new-look venue.

There were celebrations all round when the music extravaganza opened on Friday making a double date with Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding day and giving lots of Bank Holiday makers the chance to attend. Festival patron Seth Lakeman, a former Mercury nominee and the man credited with making folk “sexy”, headlined Friday night with the phenomenally popular West Country duo Show of Hands topping the bill on Saturday and 11-piece folk juggernaut Bellowhead on the Sunday – all prompting standing ovations.