FolkEast considers options for new home for 2025

Becky Marshall-Potter is one of the FolkEast founders and said she was sad to be leaving Glemham Hall

The founders of a folk festival said they have located a potential new venue for the event after the premises they usually used were put up for sale.

FolkEast will be held for the final time at Glemham Hall Estate near Woodbridge, Suffolk, after 11 years of the event taking place there.

The festival comes to an end on Sunday before it moves to a new location in 2025.

Becky and John Marshall-Potter, the founders of the festival, said they were emotional about leaving Glemham Hall.

"Glemham has been our home for 12 years and when you've worked on a site like this you know every hole, every tree, every bit of this land and it's absolutely beautiful," Mrs Marshall-Potter told BBC Radio Suffolk.

"It's a home for three weeks for us, so it's like our summer holiday home."

Mr Marshall-Potter added he was feeling some sadness.

"All these years here we've learnt how to use this site to our best advantage and it is a lovely site," he explained.

"The event has grown here really nicely but it could kind of be a reset for the whole thing."

FolkEast is England's most easterly folk festival and will have acts performing across five stages

The founders explained they had been offered three of four other sites to host the event.

However they were not yet ready to announce their decision.

"Either one of the top two we're interested in are going to be spectacular," Mr Marshall-Potter said.

"They're going to do the event justice."

Mrs Marshall-Potter said the event felt "like a family that comes back every year".

"Although it keeps expanding, our big thing is that we never want to get too big because we want to keep the feeling that you know everybody on this site," she added.

"That's something we get told year after year. People say it's the friendliest place they've ever been."

Glemham Hall is a 16th Century home that was put on the market for £19m earlier this year.

The property, which was being sold by Strutt & Parker, is no longer on the market.