Archive for March, 2010

BEVERLEY FOLK FESTIVAL
18 - 20 June
27 Years: 1983 - 2010
Patron: John Godber
The country festival in the shadow of the historic Beverley Minster

 

Beverley Folk Festival gets the thumbs up foranother great weekend of music 

This year’s Beverley Folk Festival has been given the thumbs up by by Arts Council England, Yorkshire, as it is awarded £27, 321 under its Grants for the arts programme.

Helen Featherstone, Arts Participation and Inclusion Officer, Arts Council England, Yorkshire, said:  ‘We are pleased to support Beverley Folk Festival with its future planning. This Lottery award will enable the festival to develop and attract a wider range of audiences, who will enjoy and experience folk performances and emerging artists’.

The festival, now in its 27th year, has been developing each year to become one of the main events of its kind in the region. Originally a festival with a programme of purely traditional folk music performers, it has now expanded to include a broader mix of artists, alongside some leading traditional musicians from the Yorkshire region as well as throughout the British Isles and overseas.

The festival manages to combine elements of a town festival with the relaxed summer atmosphere of a country, green field event, taking place in the shadow of Beverley’s historic Minster, in the grounds of its Leisure Complex.  A short walk from the centre of the town, whilst on the edge of the town and country.

This year’s event has a truly Scottish theme with the dynamic fiddle playing of Blazin’ Fiddles, and hit makers The Proclaimers, who will finish off the festival on the Sunday night in its traditional fiery style.  To launch the festival on the Friday night will be the lead singer of the former Scottish acoustic pop group Fairground Attraction,  Eddi Reader.

Festival organisers and audiences alike will be delighted by the performance this year of some key Yorkshire artists including The Demon Barber Roadshow, bringing English traditional song and dance to a broad audience of all ages,  and Martin Simpson who will be back with his trio, having won the BBC Radio 2 Award for Best Traditional Song. Firm festival favourites will also be back for the third time, the legendary band famous for its hit record with “The Floral Dance”, The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band. Many of the great young performers from the region will also be appearing over the festival weekend including the Leeds based group, Ellen and the Escapades, who created such a great impression at their appearance last year that they have been invited back to the festival for a second time.

A great line up, in its regularly innovative and eclectic programming. A festival that offers one of the most friendly and relaxed atmospheres of all the Summer festivals - not to be missed..

Artists confirmed to date include:

The Proclaimers, Eddi Reader, Roy Bailey & Tony Benn, The Demon Barber Roadshow, The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band, Martin Simpson Trio, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Dervish, Charlie Dore & The Hula Valley Orchestra, Blazin’ Fiddles, Koshka, Doğan Mehmet, Ivan Brackenbury,  Henry Priestman, Jerry Harmon (USA), Jeni & Billy (USA), Sean Taylor, Karen Tweed, Ellen & The Escapades, Tyde

and lots more …………..

A packed programme of music and dance, as well as Comedy, Literature, Poetry, Youth and Kids events, all promise to make the festival a must for festival goers next June

“Winter Special ” tickets available NOW until 31st March on line from http://www.beverleyfestival.com/

Further information:  Chris Wade 01377 217569  info@beverleyfestival.com

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