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Release - The Streets are Alive
Press release
Sidmouth FolkWeek
The
streets are alive with the sound of music!
Our first weekend at Sidmouth FolkWeek (3rd - 10th August) has been a scorcher!
The town and seafront is a hive of
activity as the festival fills the streets with a celebratory atmosphere -
lively music, dance and song everywhere you go. Happy holiday makers and
festival goers mingle along the action-packed esplanade?and festival venues are
full to brim with smiling faces.
The HUB - the main performance area
for the festival - centres on the Ham, with a major concert venue featuring three successful
daily events. On Thursday night,
The Big Chris Barber Band came marching in - delighting the crowds at The Ham Marquee
with their smouldering brand of trad jazz and blues.
On Friday, there wasn't a dry eye in
the house as the acclaimed children's author Michael Morpurgo brought us his moving First World War story War Horse complete with haunting songs from songmakers John Tams and
Barry Coope.
The evening saw a sell-out show with local heroes Show Of Hands.
Black Umfolosi brought their own sunshine with them on
Saturday afternoon - getting full audience participation with their unbridled
sense of fun and energy, rich harmonies and impressive dance moves. The evening
saw Ireland's premier traditional band Dervish get us in the mood for the other Celtic
headliners later in the week (Fri 10th 7.30pm with Donal
Lunny, Padraig Rynne and Sylvain
Barou.
Elsewhere around the town the buzz
continues? with ceilidhs, informal concerts, roots parties, children's festival
events, Shooting
Roots youth events,
social dancing, workshops galore?.and much, much more.
Major concerts still to come
throughout the week at comfortable concert venue The Ham Marquee and roots
party zone The Bulverton Festival Clubhouse:
Monday 6th
3.15pm Ham
Jackie Oates
Nectar-voiced singer of Imagined
Village fame.
8pm Ham
Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy
with The Gift Band
A welcome return to singing from
folk's first lady!
8.15pm Bulverton
Edward II
Feel-good festival favourites with
their own special brand of roots reggae.
Tuesday 7th
3.15pm Ham
Brass Monkey
A brass-rich wall of sound featuring
folk heavyweights, Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick.
8pm Ham
Spiers & Boden
Perennial favourites Bellowhead
frontmen in a winning combination.
8.15pm Bulverton
Treacherous
Orchestra
Mighty eleven piece Celtic supergroup
Wednesday 8th
3.15pm Mick Ryan's Folk Opera
The Pauper's Path To
Hope
8pm Ham
Martin Simpson Trio
Diamond-fingered guitarist and singer
with some very special guests: June Tabor, Dick Gaughan, Jon Boden and Fay
Hield.
8.15pm Bulverton
Must Come Down - Morris Offspring
A morris spectacular fit for an
Olympiad, bringing together the best young people that the tradition has to
offer in a display of power and grace.
Thursday 9th
3.15pm Ham
Archie Fisher ?
Dick Gaughan
Two mighty oaks of the tradition from
Scotland
8pm Ham
June Tabor &
Oysterband
Award-winning union of two giants of
the folk scene.
8.15pm Bulverton
Jason Wilson Band
Canadian roots reggae with special
guests
Dave Swarbrick and Dick Gaughan.
Friday 10th
3.15pm Crucible Trio
A capella harmonies from the English
tradition
7.30pm Ham
Donal Lunny, Padraig
Rynne & Sylvain Barou
Bringing together a legend of the
Irish music tradition with two young master musicians
8pm Bulverton
Whapweasel
Established dance band with a
fresh-sounding concert set
Come and join us!
Box Office
01395 577952
Book Online
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All 2011 Ticket
Prices held for 2012 + No Booking Fee = lower cost!
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Notes to editors
For any further information about
festival events and artists please contact our Press Officer Sarah Coxson on 07748
772040.
If you would like press
passes to cover any of the festival events please get in touch.
Full details are available at www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
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