
..."the best gig on the North Sea..." - Dave Pegg
FESTIVAL NEWS - 1st APRIL 2025

Press and Media Release – 1st April 2025
‘Cromer Festival is Celebrating Best Ever Ticket Sales for its
25th Production’
Despite a certain amount of doom and gloom in some areas of
the events industry, Cromer’s ‘Folk on the Pier’ festival is bucking the trend
and enjoying the best advance ticket sales ever in the twenty seven years since
it first started.
Occupying the usual spot on the second weekend of May, the
Pavilion Theatre on Cromer Pier will host another eighteen acoustic-roots and
electric folk-rock acts over three days. Though the festival was started
twenty-seven years ago, this year will actually see in real terms a
twenty-fifth production, given the two years taken out due to the pandemic.
The programme includes performances from English Folk-Rock
heavy weights such as Home Service, Merry Hell and a final Cromer performance
from the Oysterband as part of their ‘Long Goodbye Tour’ before they retire.
There’s also Blues and Americana from Saints and Sinners and Brooks Williams, spellbinding
songs and music from newcomer to the event Dorie Jackson, as well as top drawer
acoustic performances from the likes of Urban Folk Quartet, Jez Lowe, Bob Fox,
Jacqui McShee and Kevin Dempsey, Megson, Huw Williams and the festival’s very
own and brand new patron, Richard Digance. East Anglian support acts at the
Pavilion Theatre include KEGS, Joe and Mary, Eric Sedge, King’s Gambit and a
farewell performance from the Bounty Hounds.
As well as the main action on the pier, there are once again
many fringe events around town, organised by 1.3 East, and also a new series of
formal concerts and events under the banner of ‘Second Venue’, produced by
Cromer Community Centre and starting from the Thursday night with Attila the
Stockbroker. Other artists for these shows will include Luke Jackson, Ella
Spencer and local acts Rattlebox, North Norfolk Ukeleles and the Browns.
Folk on the Pier runs from 9th to 11th
May.
Further news and information on all events can be sourced
at:
www.facebook.com/1.3EastCromer
FESTIVAL NEWS - 7th March 2025
FESTIVAL NEWS - 1ST OCTOBER 2024
Folk on The Pier to Celebrate Twenty-Fifth Production
in 2025
Cromer’s
ever popular music festival Folk On The Pier will be celebrating
its twenty-fifth production in the town’s Pavilion Theatre on 9, 10 and 11 May
2025. What started as a toe-in-the-water twenty-seven years ago has grown into
one of the UK’s most enduring and popular annual events attracting some of the
best known artists on the folk rock music scene.
This year the festival bids a fond farewell to its original patron Ashley
Hutchings MBE to welcome Richard Digance in his stead.
Ashley, who will be celebrating his 80th birthday with a big
celebratory event in 2025, says. “Richard is the perfect
choice to take over as festival patron. I know he loves the event, and he is
well loved by the audience. I have been proud to be the festival’s patron over
many years and have welcomed the opportunity to introduce some very talented
young artists who have graced the stage with me”
Richard is no stranger to the festival having performed many times both
at the event and local solo shows. “It's a great honour
to be the new patron of Folk On The Pier” he says. “I can boast a
BAFTA Nomination and a British Academy of Songwriters Gold
Award, plus creating the New Forest Folk Festival and
presenting Britain's first commercial radio folk programme on Capital
Radio, BUT this new honour in a way is above them all.” After 55 years,
I'm finally recognised by the folk scene where I learnt my trade! So, I thank
Scott and his team for such an honour”.
Folk on The Pier has always championed a diverse programme of artists. Favourite and oft
requested artists include Oysterband, Home Service
and Merry Hell who take their place alongside new and different
faces. Many of these, including Bounty Hounds. Joe &
Mary and Eric Sedge and KEGS are from the local area and East
Anglia. Dorie Jackson, King's Gambit, will make
their debut appearance on the Pavilion stage along with former Pentangle
vocalist Jacqui McShee who will be performing as a duo with
guitar maestro Kevin Dempsey. The rest of the line-up features
returning artists Saints and Sinners, Brooks Williams,
Megson, Huw Williams and the Urban Folk
Quartet with the northeast well represented with Bob Fox - Songman
from Warhorse, and Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies.
PLEASE REFER TO THE 'WHO'S PLAYING' PAGE FOR DATES AND TIMES
TICKETS & PRICES
A LIMITED NUMBER OF SEASON TICKETS FOR ALL
SIX CONCERTS ARE ON SALE AT £150 (A SAVING OF £10.00)
INDIVIDUAL CONCERTS ARE NOW ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES - FRIDAY EVENING £30.00 ALL OTHER CONCERTS £26.00
Box office 01263 512495
www.thecromerpier.com