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Tenterden Folk Festival 2016
Thursday
29th September to Sunday 2nd Ocotber 2016
Plans for this year's festival are already well advanced. The
guest list reads a bit like a who's who of the real folk scene and
includes many old friends such as The Claque, Jim Mageean and Graeme
Knights, Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham, Nick Dow, Pete Castle,
Steve Turner and local barn dance band The Tonic with caller Keith
Leech. We are very pleased to welcome back by popular demand
Scolds Bridle who visited Tenterden for the visit time last year.
On the guest list for the first time this year are Phil Hare,
and Mike Wilson and Damien Barber. Guests appearing on the free
music stage or in showcase events in pubs and other venues will
include Ashford Folk Band, Dennis Holmes, Direction Corsairs (our
friends from Belgium), Earwig Corner, Endless Knot, The Invicta
Ukulele Club Band and The United Folk Orchestra. In
addition there will of course be all our regular and local guests
including Adrian O, Bob Kenward, Chris Roche, Gavin and Julie Atkin,
Malcolm Ward, Mark Gibson, Marsh Warblers, Morrigan, Peter Collins,
Roger Resch, Spare Parts, Sue Watson and Lizzie Stephens, Travelling
Folk and Vic and Tina Smith.
Dance sides already confirmed include Boughton Morris, Dacre Morris,
East Kent Mixed Morris, Kent Korkers and Pork Scratchin's, Kits Koty
Morris, Mad Jack's Morris, Priory Morris, Royal Liberty Morris,
Sompting Village Morris, Wolfshead and Vixen Morris plus many more
still to be confirmed.
MIKE WILSON & DAMIEN BARBER
Mike and Damien are two of the finest exponents of traditional folk
song on the UK folk scene and between them they have over 40 years
experience of performing at folk venues. Damien was raised in
Norfolk and heavily influenced by such earlier Norfolk singers as
Walter Pardon and Peter Bellamy. Damien is a stylish and distinctive
singer, either unaccompanied or when using guitar or concertina.
Although he has lived for a long time in West Yorkshire he still
retains a strong East Anglian identity.
Mike is the youngest member of the Wilson Family who are well known
on the folk scene right across the country. The Wilsons are a Teeside
family of powerful singers who have raised the rafters at many
festival and folk clubs. Mike's musical heritage is emphatically
that of the rural and industrial North East of England and includes
both traditional and modern folk songs. Damien and Mike, with their
rich shared repertoire of traditional songs plus the work of the more
modern folk writers such as Pete Bellamy, Ewan MacColl and Mike
Waterson, where nominated as best duo in the 2010 BBC Radio Two Folk
Awards. We are thrilled to have them at Tenterden.
Full Weekend Tickets and camping passes for Tenterden Folk Festival
2016 are already on sale by post and online at www.tenterdenfolkfestival.btck.co.uk/TenterdenFolkFestival2016/Buytickets
Find out more about the festival at www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk
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