Wimborne Folk Festival is an annual festival of English folk music and dance, held in Wimborne Minster in the English county of Dorset.
The Festival was founded in 1980, and is billed as a festival of "Traditional Folk Dance, English and Celtic Music and Song". It began as a one-day event, but has since become a weekend-long festival, held annually over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday in June, and has become largest gathering of dance teams and musicians in the South of England, attracting an audience of up to 30,000 people.[1]
Several street near the ancient Wimborne Minster are closed during the Festival. Attractions include concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, dancing displays and street markets.[2]
The climactic scenes of the 2009 film Morris: A Life with Bells On, a mockumentary about morris dancing, were filmed at the Festival.[3]
The 30th anniversary Festival, held from 11-13 June 2010, attracted 45 dance troupes and an estimated crowd of 20,000 people.[4]