TWO new events are being organised this year by Wellington Folk and Custom Society, with the first taking place on Saturday (April 25) - a St George’s Day English traditional folk session.

Details of the second new event will be released shortly.

Although Thursday is officially St George’s Day, the society traditionally holds its events on the nearest Saturday.

The session will include traditional instrumental English folk tunes and songs and also spoken word performance which is all part of the folk culture, and a few surprises as well.

A spokesperson said the earliest documented mention in England of St George was by the Anglo-Saxon historian and monk the venerable Bede, 673–735 AD.

The older, pre-Christian tradition ‘George the Dragon Slayer’ was seen as spiritual and psychological symbolism of the task of finding inner balance with a person’s conscious v unconscious mind, the rational vs instinct, played out with a hero and dragon.

Most of the society’s musicians regularly play and sing in traditional folk sessions and play Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, French, Swiss, Jewish, Americana, and other varied music from around the world, plus contemporary music and songs.

The session takes place in the Cottage Inn, Wellington, at 7.30 pm.

Wellington Folk and Custom Society also organises a series of annual events in the town, including the Wellington Wassail, a Blaize ’n’ Brigit Night, and a ‘Harvest Meal’.

It puts on two folk parades each year, with the first for 2026 seeing members join the procession for the town’s spring fayre in Wellington Park on Bank Holiday Monday, May 4, an event organised by Friends of Wellington Park.

The second, and larger, folk parade forms part of the annual Wellington Carnival, which is held on the last Saturday in September, this year falling on the 26th.