St Michael’s Folk Evening is held on the first Wednesday of July each year
WEDNESDAY 2ND JULY 2025
Many of the people and groups involved in folk music and dance in the St Albans area get together to perform in the historic setting of St Michael’s village.
This year, around 10 groups will dance in open-air shows, while there is live music in the Six Bells St Albans, the churchyard, near the Puddingstone, and, for the first time, outside Verulamium Museum. We even have the church bells at 7.15, to “ring in” the merriment.
St Michael’s Street is closed to traffic from 8 till 10pm, to become the venue for around 32 dance shows, and St Michael’s Lower School yard is the site of the pupils’ Maypole.
Here’s a list of all the dance groups who will be performing this year:
Time | Six Bells | Rose & Crown | Prae Close |
20:00 - 20:20 | Phoenix Morris | Wicket Brood | Louise Walsh Academy of Irish Dancers |
20:20 - 20:40 | St Albans Morris | New Moon | Tappalachian |
20:40 - 21:00 | Wiicket Brood | Phoenix Morris | Louise Walsh Academy of Irish Dancers |
21:00 - 21:20 | New Moon | St Albans Morris | Tappalachian |
21:20 - 21:40 | Wicket Brood | Phoenix Morris | |
21:40 - 22:00 | St Albans Morris | New Moon | Tappalachian |
Music goes on till 9.30 at the Museum, 10.30 at the churchyard, and in the pubs and by the Puddingstone until closing time.
Usually , we get fine weather, and St Michael’s village is full to overflowing. Unusually , nobody asks the audience for money; all the musicians and dancers perform for FREE!
There’s (some) food and (plenty of) drink to be had from the pubs.