* Moira Furnace Folk Festival

‘The Festival features some well known and talented main acts, plus local and national, up and coming artists.’ Held Mid August. Moira Furnace ‘is a nineteenth-century iron-making blast furnace located in Moira, Leicestershire, on the banks of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal. Built by the Earl of Moira in 1804, the building has been preserved by North West Leicestershire District Council as a museum featuring lime kilns and craft workshops’. [Wikipedia 2 January 2018]