Barnsley Folk Festival 2026: Best pictures from amazing event held in Mandela Gardens

The festival ‘builds on the town’s rich history of traditional music, song and dance, from the founding of Barnsley Folk Club in 1962 and the many successful and influential folk artists that have sung and played there, to the folk music concerts that have taken place at Barnsley Civic over the decades’.

The event is part of Civic 150, an 18-month celebration marking 150 years of Barnsley Civic.

The Yorkshire Post’s photographer James Hardisty went down to capture the best of the action.