The First Week in August

Fifty Years of the Sidmouth Festival 1955 - 2005

Derek Schofield

Foreward by Martin Carthy

Illustrated with over 450 photographs, more than 120 of them in full colour, The First Week in August is a year-by-year account of just how this event has become the most significant folk and roots music festival in the country, spreading the fame of Sidmouth across the world.

Published by Sidmouth International Festival Ltd