Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2025

at Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum, Dorchester
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Join us for our annual celebration of solidarity!

An incredible weekend of music, debate, comedy, international speakers, performance, kids activities, workshops, history, food, drink and more!!

www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival

Hear from striking workers and campaigners, debate the causes of the day and the way forward, dance to live music, explore campaigning stalls and food and craft stalls, participate in organising workshops, meet union family at our new networking events, engage with your union, take your kids to the vibrant kids area, and then round it all off with our annual procession. The best possible way to spend a weekend in the beautiful Dorset village where the Trade Union movement was born in 1834.

Tickets on sale NOW! Bring the family and take advantage of our fantastic solidarity discounts for children and young people

Sunday is FREE ENTRY all day! Come and enjoy the music, workshops and famous banner procession through the village from 2pm.

www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival

Friday 18th July
Saturday 19th July
Sunday 20th July

Grace Petrie

Grace Petrie is a folk singer, songwriter and activist from Leicester, UK, she has been writing, recording and touring relentlessly ever since. Her unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over audiences everywhere, across the alternative, folk, political and comedy scenes She has racked up tour supports with Emmy the Great and Billy Bragg, and has also made her mark in the comedy scene supporting comedians Robin Ince and Josie Long. She’s appeared at Glastonbury four time at the invitation of Billy Bragg, as well as an eclectic genre-crossing mix of festivals Latitude, Musicport, Blissfields, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Greenbelt and more including of course Cambridge Folk Festival. She has collaborated with some of the most respected names in folk, including Leon Rosselson, Roy Bailey and Peggy Seeger.

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Billy Bragg

Described by The Times as a 'National Treasure', Billy Bragg's brand of socially and politically aware punk-folk has made a remarkable dent in the British conscience and made his name as one of Britain's most popular and out-spoken singer/songwriters. Drawing on the folk tradition of protest song, and the punk sensibilities of direct action, Billy Bragg has made a name for himself as an accomplished and inspirational musician, and as a charged and pro-active activist. At their best, Billy’s songs present ‘the perfect Venn diagram between the political and the personal’ (the Guardian)

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The Halfway Kid

As The Halfway Kid, British-Sudanese singer and songwriter Saeed Gadir makes music for communing, and finds himself in the midst of a new folk tradition - one that he’s writing in real time. Having experimented with rapping over dubbed out, electronic-heavy R&B, Saeed picked up a guitar in his early 20s and figured out his own way around its six strings. He takes influcnes from artists such as Bob Dylan, Nina Simone and Joni Mitchell, and his writing is peppered with the stoic, blackened humour of Sudan.

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Shanghai Treason

Yorkshire flatcap banjo punks Shanghai Treason have gone from strength to strength since launching in 2019, they've supported and shared stages with the likes of Stiff Little Fingers, Buzzcocks, Ferocious Dog, Black Water County, Roughneck Riot, Bar Stool Preachers and more.

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PET NEEDS

PET NEEDS play fractured party music. The band was born when guitarist George landed on his brother Johnny’s sofa in Colchester after abandoning a job in a Midlands petrol station for the dazzling lights of Essex. They didn’t have a plan. But they had guitars. With explosive live performances of singalong anti-anthems, PET NEEDS began smashing sets on stages throughout the UK, screaming stories of disastrous job interviews, self-destruction and heading down the river on an inflatable kayak.

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Logic

Logic was raised in Brixton, South London he has grown in a poverty driven environment. He is affiliated with the infamous P.D.C who are in the process of building a record label. His solo career began through a record shop called ‘Deal Real’ which used to be located in Carnaby street. This is where he first performed to a crowd and the response he received made him continue on this path. Since then he has supported the likes of KRS-ONE, Immortal Technique and Saigon to name a few.

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Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum

Dorchester Road
Tolpuddle
Dorchester
DT2 7EH

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Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum

Dorchester Road
Tolpuddle
Dorchester
DT2 7EH

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