Guyana Folk Festival

A family day of the best in Guyanese culture, food, music & entertainment; CELEBRATING GUYANA’s 60th ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE

The Guyana Folk Festival is a family day of the best in Guyanese culture, food, music & entertainment

The first Guyana UK Folk Festival was held in 2008. This cultural extravaganza aims to bring a taste of Guyana’s rich cultural heritage to the shores of the UK. Performers have included GUSDA’s Patron and Guyanese icon, Ram John Holder (aka Pork Pie), Flautist Keith Waithe, Actress Doris Harper-Wills and Poet Marc Matthews. The event has also had special performances from US and Guyanese based artist Terry Gadraj, Big Red, Jumo Primo (former lead singer of the world-famous Byron Lee & the Dragonaires) and Comedienne Liza Singh & Stitchie One Man Band among others.

The Folk Festival gives Guyanese a taste of home. It provides an opportunity for us to get together, reminisce and reflect on how things were ‘back in de day’. For the children of Guyanese parentage, people of the Caribbean and other countries, the Folk Festival is an opportunity to experience this rich cultural heritage.

Participants are also treated to a variety of traditional Guyanese dishes, ranging from the mouth-watering main courses of curry and roti, pepper pot and cook-up to the delicious taste of salara, cassava pone, and pine tart washed down with a glass of mauby or sorrel.