By Andrew Ffrench @OxMailAndyF Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425
Morris dancers at Folk Weekend Oxford in 2016 Folk Weekend Oxford is taking place this weekend, with a series of performances online. After the success of the 2020 festival, brought online at the last minute due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event, starting Friday, returns with a packed line-up including city-based folk legend Peggy Seeger. Jim Driscoll is the newly appointed creative director of Folk Weekend Oxford, replacing festival founder Cat McGill at the start of 2021. The festival has maintained its usual mix of national and locally-based artists, with headline sets from Spiers & Boden, Martin & Eliza Carthy, and Mad Dog Mcrea, plus gigs from Jackie Oates and Megan Henwood, and Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman.