The Moira Furnace Folk Festival returns this summer - and organisers are offering 'Early Bird' tickets until the end of this month.

You can book tickets for the three day event - which will be held on August 19, 20 and 21 - on the festival website HERE.

For those who have never been before, the organisers say the event features some well known and talented main acts, plus local and national, up and coming artists.

A programme of workshops has been arranged and will be detailed on the website together with details of which days artists are performing, in advance of the Festival

Usually, most events take place on the green site of Moira Furnace, with a Ceilidh on Saturday Night at the Miners Welfare, just a few hundred metres from the main site.

Singarounds and sessions also take place at local pubs, some 10 minutes' walk from the Festival main site, as well as various locations on the Festival site itself.

There are concerts all weekend in two marquees, each with a raised stage and PA system, plus singarounds in the Loft of the Furnace building and a wide variety of dancing, including Morris and Appalachian Step, in the Courtyard.

The 2022 Festival may well depart from this format, depending on the restrictions and guidance in place at the festival dates.

Concerts may be outdoors on seating, with just the stage covered.

Singaround and workshop locations may need to be changed and some may need to be held outdoors.