The annual festival is still internationally recognised for its traditional English folk music and dance, held in the market town of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.

It began as a one-day event, but quickly grew to become a weekend-long festival, held annually over Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the second weekend in June.

The Festival planned for 2020 did not go ahead, due to the health precautions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, whereby public gatherings were severely restricted or banned altogether.

An attempt was made to reschedule the 2020 Festival to August,[5] in the hope that as much as possible of the event could still go ahead, but this too had to be cancelled as the need to protect public health continued to dominate life in the UK.

Meanwhile Café @ The Allendale kept the Folk Festival spirit alive in the second half of 2020 by hosting small, socially distanced afternoon and evening gigs featuring local musicians, as and when public health regulations permitted.