News

Information about the corona and the implementation of the festival
We promise to do our utmost to carry out a safe festival where the magical musical memories are left behind, not covid 19 and infection tracking. At all our events, we will carry out a risk analysis that also involves the conditions surrounding the risk of infection, and will facilitate that we can all comply with the applicable rules.

Farsund Folk Festival and the coronavirus
At the time of writing, all sports and cultural events in Norway have been canceled until 15 June. Before 1 May, Minister of Culture Abid Raja will present new guidelines for festivals and cultural events after 15 June and onwards.

From the North Sea Festival in Farsund to the Farsund Folk Festival
The North Sea Festival in Farsund was founded on 27.10.1998 under the name North Sea Festival Sailor´s Wake. The name change to the North Sea Festival in Farsund was approved at the annual meeting on 25.01.2006.

Welcome to the festival office in Torvgata
As some of you may have noticed, we have "moved" into the Tourist Office in Torvgata. This year's festival office will be here during the entire festival. The office will be open: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 12.00 - 15.00 Thursday and Friday at 12.00 - 18.00 Saturday at 12.00 - 15.00 At the festival office you will…

New festival and new websites
HURRA, festival soon !! We look forward wildly and uninhibitedly and have many goodies for you in 2019. Something will be as before, something will be completely new - as it always has been. Our first news is this, the festival's new website. We thank Laura and Roger in Havdur design for fantastic websites, finally Ann Helen understands…

We have received the Farsund municipality's culture award - hooray!
On September 20, we received a nice phone call from the leader of the committee for culture and upbringing, Jostein Alvestad Kydland. The North Sea Festival in Farsund had been awarded this year's culture prize at the meeting. We really appreciate that!