The Moira Folk Festival is on all weekend - while some Ashby pubs are concentrating on showing the big fight tonight (Saturday).

The Folk Festival 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 festival website together with details of which days artists are performing,

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.

More details are HERE.

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Some Ashby pubs will be showing the Oleksandr Usyk v Anthony Joshua II fight this evening (Saturday).

The showdown from Saudi Arabia will be one of the most popular sporting events of the year.

You can see the fight at the White Hart and Bowling Green pubs in Ashby.

Details are HERE and HERE.

Still with sport, Ashby Ivanhoe FC have made and excellent start to the season and currently lie in third spot in the Midland League.

They are playing at home today (Saturday) where they will face league leaders Paget Rangers.

The club have been encouraged by the support they are getting at home games.

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More details of the game are HERE.

Ashby Ivanhoe FC in Lower Packington Road. Photo: Ashby Ivanhoe

Tomorrow (Sunday), Brew in Market Street will be holding their regular Lazy Sunday Afternoon session.

This week, Calum Ward is playing live at the popular craft beer bar.

Details are HERE.

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