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12–14 June 2009
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The Ipswich Riverside Folk Weekend
started with a folk session at the Steamboat Tavern.
The session’s been going for a few
years now, and in June 2004, landlady Val Bint decided to try
something a bit more ambitious and host a whole weekend of folk
music and dancing.
The Steamboat Folk Weekend 2004 was a
huge success and we enjoyed it so much we decided to do it
again! But the event became bigger than the pub; we wanted to
tie it in more closely with the pub’s dockside location
but we also wanted to put it on the map as an Ipswich event,
not just the Steamboat’s – hence the change of name
in 2005 to Ipswich Riverside Folk and Maritime Festival.
After three very successful years as
IRFMF, however, financial constraints started to creep in, and
we also discovered some disadvantages to advertising a
“folk festival” at such a small venue – so we
split the difference and reverted to Ipswich Riverside Folk
Weekend, in which form we hope it will continue for many years
to come!