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Folk Festival - Saturday Concert

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Category: Professional
Venue: Theatre / Ballroom

£15.00 / £13.00 concessions

This ticket allows you access to all the concerts on Saturday evening.

 

Saturday 31st May
 

6.30pm : Rachel Rose Reid Raised by storytellers and musicians, Rachel performs worldtales and songs for adults, and sometimes for brave children, and there will be an opportunity to hear both kinds of tales with us at the festival.  She is the UK's Young Storyteller of the Year 2007 (awarded by the Traditional Arts Team) and has performed at festivals and venues including Festival at the Edge, Beyond the Border, Alden Biesen (Belgium), Slaithwaite Moonraking and the Tricycle Theatre. 


'Rachel’sperformance was astonishing.  She took the stage with an easy andego-less charm and, with the aid of her powerful, intelligent vocals,began to weave a spell amongst the audience, with tales of mermaids,moon-gazing, and following our dreams.'  Paul L Martin
More information and clips can be found at www.rachelrosereid.com
 
7.00pm : Keith Christmas, blues inspired singer/songwriter, creates an orchestral feel where ingenious compositions are wedded to solid guitar technique and tone.  Not  exclusively rock, blues, jazz, or folk, Keith is an artist not to be missed.
 
8.00pm : Sultans of Squeeze, consisting of John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson on a combination of squeeze-boxes.  Watch two accomplished musicians enjoy and explore the endless possibilities that their instruments.
 
9.00pm : Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, winner of the Horizon Award at the BBC Folk Awards this year, their music is bewitching, dreamlike, down-to-earth and as tough as it is gentle.  Their album ‘The Bairns’ is being hailed as ‘a classic in its own lifetime.’
 

10.00pm : Sarah Savoy and the Francadians - strong, independent and fun-loving, she keeps her audiences dancing, belting out sassy blues, growling through honky-tonk-inspired Cajun songs of the 1940’s and 50’s.

Folk Festival - Saturday Ticket

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Category: Professional
Venue: Theatre / Ballroom

£20.00 / £18.00 concessions

This tickets allows you access to all the afternoon workshops and all the evening

 concerts. 

 

Saturday 31st May

 

Workshops

 

Afternoon  Kesteven Morris, Dancing on St Peter’s Hill Green
2.00pm – 3.00pm  Keith Christmas, Open G tuning for guitar
2.00pm – 3.00pm John Kirkpartick, Accordion workshop
3.30pm – 4.30pm Rachel Rose Reid, Story telling session
3.30pm – 4.30pm Chris Parkinson Button Accordion Workshop

 


Concerts

 

6.30pm : Rachel Rose Reid, Winner of the 2007 UK Young Storyteller of the Year Award,,Rachel takes the stage with an easy and ego-less charm.
7.00pm : Keith Christmas, blues inspired singer/songwriter, creates an orchestral feel where ingenious compositions are wedded to solid guitar technique and tone.  Not  exclusively rock, blues, jazz, or folk, Keith is an artist not to be missed.
8.00pm : Sultans of Squeeze, consisting of John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson on a combination of squeeze-boxes.  Watch two accomplished musicians enjoy and explore the endless possibilities that their instruments.
9.00pm : Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, winner of the Horizon Award at the BBC Folk Awards this year, their music is bewitching, dreamlike, down-to-earth and as tough as it is gentle.  Their album ‘The Bairns’ is being hailed as ‘a classic in its own lifetime.’
10.00pm : Sarah Savoy and the Francadians - strong, independent and fun-loving, she keeps her audiences dancing, belting out sassy blues, growling through honky-tonk-inspired Cajun songs of the 1940’s and 50’s.