Hello Fairporters
Tickets are on sale now via our website and from AXS, our Box Office partner.
As with 2025, this year we are selling 3-day tickets only, at £240 with Camping £65 per vehicle for the weekend. Youth tickets (12-17 inc) are £90 and Day Visitor parking costs £15 for 3 days. Backpackers and Bikers camp for free. Children under 12 years of age may attend free of charge if accompanied by a ticket holding adult.
The capacity will once again be restricted to 6500. It made sense last year and we’re happy to go with the reduced capacity once again.
Tickets are available here
And so, without further ado – and in no particular order, here are the fabulous artists we have lined up for you this year at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention.
Hayseed Dixie make a welcome return with both the best/most entertaining website biog (click the link) and backstage rider. The finest Rockgrass you’ll hear on the planet! Our Saturday evening wake-up!
NEW TO CROPS! Soft Machine are an English rock band formed in 1966 and were central in the famous Canterbury scene. They became one of the first British psychedelic acts and later helped pioneer progressive and jazz rock. Current line-up: John Etheridge, Theo Travis, Asaf Sirkis and Fred Thelonius Baker.
A welcome return to the Cropredy stage for Turin Brakes. 2026 marks their 25th year together and following on from their 2022 appearance, this is going to be a cracker!
NEW TO CROPS! ‘Marshall Gilmour Webbs’ are a group formed following their success as backing singers on David Gilmour’s 2024 Luck and Strange Tour. With superb harmonies and terrific musicianship, you won’t want to miss this!
NEW TO CROPS! Molly, Adam, Murray and Cormac bring their beautiful set of traditional songs to the Cropredy stage for the first time. One of the most in-demand live acts on the UK/Irish folk scene today.
A big hit last year, the 2026 Folk Class will take to the stage and attempt to top the class of ’25. Good luck!
Thirteen years is too long! Danny Wilson brings his extraordinary brand of Americana to Cropredy once again. Welcome back!
NEW TO CROPS! Prepare to be swept away by Banter’s exhilarating live performance—a thrilling fusion of traditional English folk and bold contemporary energy. Since their formation in 2015, this dynamic quartet has redefined the folk genre, earning rave reviews and captivating audiences at the UK’s most prestigious festivals.
NEW TO CROPS! Brighton’s Henry and John Tydeman bring their great tunes to Cropredy for the first time.
“Barbara are one of the best groups about. Live they’re great, and their songs too. Clever and melodic. The Babs are fab!”
– Paul Weller
NEW TO CROPS! Traditional yet progressive, original yet fast becoming a new sensation at venues all over the world, The Celtic Social Club are bridging the gap between Celtic, rock and pop music with compelling authority.
NEW TO CROPS! Rob Jones & The Restless Dream make “Midnight Americana” – widescreen, cinematic songs that evoke the long roads and late nights of Northern England. Their debut album Stars was released last year and quickly found favour across the BBC and Absolute Radio, where the band were named Spotlight Artists of the Week.
Sixteen years on from their last Cropredy appearance, the award winning Breabach remain securely ranked amongst Scotland’s most skilled & imaginative contemporary-folk acts and at the forefront of the burgeoning traditional music scene.
LVDN will be closing proceedings on Thursday night having last played Cropredy in 2018. A leading force in Québec’s progressive Francophone folk movement, the band’s repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions.
NEW TO CROPS! Following in the footsteps of our dear friend, the late Bobby Bragg, Matt Bragg is really carving out a name for himself on the stand-up circuit.
“Classic observation comedy, delivered with style” – Ricky Jervais.
“Matt Bragg is brilliantly funny” – Suzi Ruffel.
No stranger to Cropredy, founding Fairport member Richard Thompson will be joined on stage by vocalist Zara Phillips and former colleagues, Simon Nicol, Dave Mattacks and Dave Pegg.
NEW TO CROPS! Winner of the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, we welcome Danny Bradley. Danny Bradley is a Folk musician and fingerstyle-guitarist who has toured the U.K. as the opening act for Richard Thompson, and Fairport Convention.
They emerged blithering and blinking-eyed from the Blue Mountains of NSW in 2001, and armed with no more than their voices, a nice line in deadpan and an ill-matched set of hats, have been gleefully disturbing audiences everywhere since. Welcome back mates.
NEW TO CROPS! Individually, two exceptionally proficient and respected musicians. Together, a vibrant force of traditional folk. Will’s skills on harmonica and melodeon is second to none – and teamed with Jenn’s acoustic virtuosity make for a breath-taking partnership. Jenn will also be Fairport’s guest on their Spring Tour 2026.
With a vibrant energy and humour that neatly avoids him being pigeon-holed into any particular musical category, we welcome back Gerry Colvin. Gerry will be bringing his ‘Big Band’ for this performance.
COMPERE for 2026 will once again be our good friend – Anthony John Clarke.
Fairport Convention themselves will of course be bookending the festival with an acoustic set at 16.00 on Thursday and closing the weekend with over 2 hours of Fairport and Friends on Saturday.
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See you there!
Simon, Peggy, Ric and Chris |
HAYSEED DIXIE
SOFT MACHINE
TURIN BRAKES
MARSHALL GILMOUR WEBBS
THE HAAR
CROPREDY PRIMARY SCHOOL
DANNY & THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD
BANTER
BARBARA The Band
CELTIC SOCIAL CLUB
ROB JONES & THE RESTLESS DREAM
BREABACH
LE VENT DU NORD
MATT BRAGG
RICHARD THOMPSON with Zara Phillips
DANNY BRADLEY
SPOOKY MEN’S CHORALE
GERRY COLVIN BIG BAND
