The festival that’s not down-sized, but right-sized – Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, closes its doors on 2026, so we park our sunglasses for a visual reminder of, yet again, another festival to remember, as this years line up graces what The Haar’s Cormac Byrne calls “the Pyramid Stage of the folk world.”

Thursday brings the Softs and stand up in the sunshine; Banter, Bragg and Brakes and more whirlwind than ‘vent’.

All live photography by Mike Ainscoe for At The Barrier.

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