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The Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) is a membership group of like-minded festival and event managers who believe in learning and teaching, sharing and networking to continuously improve the festival scene. Created in 1987 with a small gathering of people working in the festival business, it now has hundreds of members who regularly exchange ideas and support one another to help develop the sector. Our member festivals are community minded and always striving to offer festivals goers something new. For more details on the AFO, to find out the benefits of becoming a member, or for the latest festival industry news, visit our website here.

AFO Festivals

  • Badgerfest

    Badgerfest

    Badgerfest returns and this time it's in Bristol! Having started in 2016, Badgerfest is a colourful, creative music festival perfectly positioned to be the last great party of the summer! Two days of...

  • Blind Cat Festival

    Blind Cat Festival

    Blind Cat Festival is an exciting festival taking place at Cabourne Parva farm in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Primarily a music festival for space rock hippies it will do great stuff to keep kids ent...

  • Bromyard Folk Festival

    Bromyard Folk Festival

    The best folk festival cultural event in the Welsh Border area - featuring over 170 hours of entertainment in just one weekend of traditional music, song and dance. Some of the most outstanding local,...

  • Bude Blues Rhythm and Rock Festival

    Bude Blues Rhythm and Rock Festival

    From Solid Entertainment comes another solid blues-rock festival this time in Bude. Focus Wishbone Ash and Chantel McGregor are just some of the big names performing at this three-day event on Cornwa...

  • BunkFest

    BunkFest

    This popular festival is held at various venues around the town of Wallingford in Oxfordshire over a weekend in September. BunkFest is now firmly established as a leading event on the nationwide folk ...

  • Call of the Wild Festival

    Call of the Wild Festival

    Call of the Wild Festival is an independently funded Rock Festival based at Lincolnshire Showground.   With over 60 bands performing on three stages, the festival boasts legendary inte...

  • Cambridge Rock Festival

    Cambridge Rock Festival

    Cambridge Rock is a superb Rock Festival featuring mainly Rock and Blues, with added Prog, NWBHM, great food and 70 real ales, ciders, wines and lager! Camping and caravanning are available over the f...

  • Cleckheaton Folk Festival

    Cleckheaton Folk Festival

    Cleckheaton Situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, right in the middle of the West Yorks Conurbation, with Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, Huddersfield, and Dewsbury all approx the same short...

  • Elderflower Fields Festival

    Elderflower Fields Festival

    A magical weekend of fun activities, eclectic music and great local food, designed especially for families with children in mind.

  • Faversham Hop Festival

    Faversham Hop Festival

    The Faversham Hop Festival is an annual two-day, free, family event held on the 1st weekend in September which commemorates the golden days of hop-picking when families would come to Kent and pass the...

  • Fleetwood Folk and Blues Weekend

    Fleetwood Folk and Blues Weekend

    Fleetwood Folk and Blues Weekend was launched in 2015 to great success. Before the Fleetwood Festival was organised the town had been home to the Fylde Folk Festival for over 40 years and this newly d...

  • Folk by the Oak

    Folk by the Oak

    Folk By The Oak Festival is a one-day bite-sized acoustic music festival in the leafy grounds of Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire. Previous headliners have included The Levellers, Show of Hands,  an...

  • Folk on the Dock

    Folk on the Dock

    Folk on the Dock takes place at Liverpool's iconic docklands and celebrates the role those docks and waterways in Liverpool have had in exporting local music around the world. It is now entering into ...

  • Furness Tradition Festival

    Furness Tradition Festival

    Celebrating all that is good about traditional folk and arts the Furness Tradition is one of Cumbria’s finest events. Originally formed in 1997/8 Furness Tradition is a volunteer-run festival wh...

  • Fylde Folk & Roots Festival

    Fylde Folk & Roots Festival

    Fylde Folk & Roots Festival is a new family friendly music festival held at Marine Hall in Fleetwood, Lancashire.

  • Galtres Festival

    Galtres Festival

    Galtres Festival is one of the best family festivals in the country and takes place near Crayke, a beautiful rural setting overlooking the Vale of York. There are multiple stages, lots of local Yorksh...

  • Gate To Southwell Festival

    Gate To Southwell Festival

    A great four-day family-friendly festival attracting international artists and with a reputation for discovering and promoting new talent. This year's headliners are Gretchen Peters, Lindisfarne, Cara...

  • Ireby Music Festival

    Ireby Music Festival

    Ireby Music Festival takes place over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (May) and features a wealth of folk music, workshops, and session at various venues in the small village of Ireby in Cumbria

  • Knaresbourough Feva Festival

    Knaresbourough Feva Festival

    An annual festival has been held in Knaresborough since 1996 when the Knaresborough Festival was founded by the late Derrick van Zelst and his son Robin and this ran successfully for five years. In 20...

  • L Fest

    L Fest

    L Fest is a unique weekend celebration of lesbian culture and community. It includes music, cinema, books and visual art; games and sport; dating and dancing. It’s packed with fun, socialising a...

  • Let's Rock Southampton

    Let's Rock Southampton

    After beginning life around 2008 with their brand of unique 80's fun, Let's Rock has been running festivals across the country across weekends around June/ July. Southampton's festival is held on the...

  • Llangollen

    Llangollen

    Every summer since 1947 Llangollen has staged one of the world’s most inspirational cultural festivals. Each year over 4,000 performers from across the globe head to the beautiful little Welsh t...

  • Manchester Folk Festival

    Manchester Folk Festival

    Manchester Folk Festival is a brand new urban folk festival situated in and around the great new venue, HOME, in Manchester city centre. The festival aims to shine a bright spotlight on the English fo...

  • Off The Tracks Spring Festival

    Off The Tracks Spring Festival

    Off The Tracks Festival is an event that brings you two festivals each year from Castle Donington in the very heart of England. Voted a top "small is beautiful" festival by The Times, Off The Tracks i...

  • Off The Tracks Summer Festival

    Off The Tracks Summer Festival

    Off The Tracks is an event that brings you two festivals each year from Castle Donington in the very heart of England. Voted a top "small is beautiful" festival by The Times, Off The Tracks is a great...

  • Purbeck Folk Festival

    Purbeck Folk Festival

    Purbeck Folk Festival covers the broader definition of folk music, and you can hear music from around the world; some are deep and meaningful, and some get up and jump around. There's something for ev...

  • Riverside Festival

    Riverside Festival

    Charlbury Riverside Festival is a much loved festival and is going from strength to strength very year. The festival has become a major fixture in Oxfordshire's musical calendar with more then 30 acts...

  • Riverside Rock

    Riverside Rock

    Riverside Rock is Scotland’s leading family music festival, taking place in Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. We have 12 hours of LIVE music, including Rock and Traditional Bands from right acr...

  • Samphire Festival

    Samphire Festival

    In its first year in 2016 the Samphire Festival is a crowdfunded Somerset-based event which has an eco-friendly ethos and plans to create an intimate party atmosphere. The event is billed as family fr...

  • Shrewsbury Folk Festival

    Shrewsbury Folk Festival

    As far as the music is concerned, Shrewsbury Folk Festival has a reputation for delivering the very finest acts from the UK and around the world, always searching to find new authentic artists as well...

  • Sidmouth Folk Week

    Sidmouth Folk Week

    Sidmouth FolkWeek (3rd - 10th August) offers the best summer festival line-up in a stunning seaside location - a homegrown holiday for all the family to enjoy. A jewel in the crown of East Devon's d...

  • Solfest

    Solfest

    Solfest is the definitive festival for music-hungry families. Welcoming, inclusive, inventive and jam-packed with carefully selected chart-topping acts from across the decades, it’s one of North...

  • Strawberry Fair

    Strawberry Fair

    From humble beginnings, Strawberry Fair has grown to be the most popular free music and arts event in Cambridge. On the first Saturday of June for almost forty years, residents and visitors have gathe...

  • Sunday Sessions Norwich

    Sunday Sessions Norwich

    The Sunday Sessions is two events that take place in May and June, two different Sundays, two different months and two different cities - Norwich and Edinburgh respectively.    This, the N...

  • Swanage Folk Festival

    Swanage Folk Festival

    The Swanage Folk Festival is a small and friendly community festival held each year in the beautiful seaside town of Swanage on the Jurassic coast of Dorset. Events throughout the town over the festiv...

  • The Big Green Cardigan

    The Big Green Cardigan

    The Big Green Cardigan takes place in a field with stunning views across the East Sussex countryside. With 2 stages, 20 artists and 500 people its bringing back that original festival atmosphere witho...

  • The Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival

    The Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival

    The Great British Rythm and Blues festival is celebrating it's 21st birthday this year, and are pulling out all the stops to bring you a great entertaining line-up of national and international artist...

  • The Green Gathering

    The Green Gathering

    A festival beyond hedonism powered by wind, sun, and people Do you fancy meeting like-minded people under open skies for four days of off-grid entertainment and exploration on a landscaped and wooded...

  • This Is Tomorrow

    This Is Tomorrow

    This Is Tomorrow is a new festival which takes place at Spillers Wharf, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

  • Tunes in the Dunes

    Tunes in the Dunes

    Tunes in the Dune is a brand-new festival that takes the action straight onto the glorious sands of Perranporth Beach on the English coast in Cornwall. Sand dunes, cliffs and lots of great music to en...

  • Watchet Live Music Festival

    Watchet Live Music Festival

    Watchet Live is a family friendly festival with amazing views of the stunning West Somerset coastline and beyond. Complete with on-site camping, 2 Stages including the famous Croissant Neuf venue, Ove...

  • Whitby Gothic Weekend (autumn)

    Whitby Gothic Weekend (autumn)

    Established in 1994 by Top Mom Promotions and Jo Hampshire, Whitby Goth Weekend is an alternative music festival that has gone from strength to strength to become one of the biggest and most popular g...

  • Wickham Festival

    Wickham Festival

    Wickham Festival is a safe, relaxed and family-friendly folk festival set in the Hampshire countryside close to Wickham's historic and picturesque village. The Festival site will have several bars ser...

  • Wonky Donk Festival

    Wonky Donk Festival

    The Wonky Donk Festival gets its name from its location, a retired donkey farm. It was started in 2012 as a roots revival festival and some of the funds from the festival are put back into the farm, g...