Now in its sixth year, the Great British Folk Festival 2016 is held at Butlins Skegness over the weekend of 2nd December 2016.

Those lucky enough to snap up tickets (the weekend is understandably a SELL OUT) can expect some of the best folk related music around with headline sets from the Levellers, Donovan, Oysterband, Lindisfarne, Bob Geldof, and Cara Dillon, plus a of host of other big names from the folk and folk-rock scene. Entertainment is spread over four stages at the three night bash in the splendid Butlins holiday centre in wonderful Skegness.

Festivals For All reviewers simply love these out-of-festival-season holiday centre weekends. It’s all the fun of the festival scene without any of the hassle. There is no beating a lovely warm bed and first classes facilities after enjoying a day in one of the many top notch Butlins auditoria; plus all the facilities of the holiday centre are available to enjoy too. If you’ve not been to Butlins for a few years then take our word for it – Butlins offer a truly 21st century holiday weekend with a host of quality bars, restaurants, and leisure facilities for all ages.

Our Festivals For All thinks these Butlins Big Weekends offer all the best bits of a festival, a gig, and a cabaret experience rolled into one. Couple that with a range of inclusive accommodation packages to suit most tastes and budgets and it’s a winner in our book!

Butlins Skegness is right by the beach and the music weekend offers 3 nights’ accommodation, access to all bars, facilities, and live music venues plus of course those live performances from the best of the folk scene, and all in a beautiful seaside location.

Artists booked to appear include Levellers, Donovan, Cara Dillon, The Gary Fletcher Band, Slim Chance, Jona Lewie, Bob Geldof, Kate Rusby, Gryphon, Sally Barker, Lost Pacaminos, Lindisfarne, Martin Stephenson, Fake Thackray, Itchy Fingers, David Knopfler & Harry Bogdanovs, The Pitmen Poets, Mad Dog Mcrea, Said the Maiden, Polly and the Billets Doux, and Chris Jagger's Acoustic Roots.