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10–12 June 2011
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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!