Beverley Folk Festival List Line-Up For 2016

Beverley Folk Festival List Line-Up For 2016

Beverley Folk Festival launch their line-up for 2016 with an eclectic mix of traditional English and Celtic music, combining current favourites and emerging acts with Folk Rock legends from earlier years and a liberal dose of Americana.

Headliners at from June 17th to 19th include multi-award winning Kate Rusby and her band, the ever-popular Steeleye Span, “musician’s musician” Tim Edey and current “must-see” trio, The Young’uns.

Attractions under the “legends” banner will also include Acoustic Strawbs, the 1970’s progressive rock band, who later turned to folk rock with songs like Part of the Union, and the stage show, The Lindisfarne Story, featuring founder member, Ray Laidlaw, and former lead singer, Billy Mitchell.

Ray and Billy will also be appearing with the Lindisfarne Story Band for a live performance of the iconic album, ‘Fog on the Tyne’. This will form part of a ‘Tyne Treasures’ concert which also features Geordie legends, Animals & Friends, and Durham-born singer-songwriter, Jez Lowe.

Beverley has a justifiable reputation for a healthy dose of Americana and 2016 will be no exception with a line-up that includes US bands Billy Lee and the Swamp Critters, Wild Ponies, plus The Goat Roper Rodeo Band, The Durbervilles from and King Courgette from York! (Hee Haw)

Unsurprisingly, “Yorkshire Folk” feature strongly in what will be the 33rd annual Beverley Folk Festival – the fourth on its magnificent and relatively new site at Beverley Racecourse. For example, world fusion band, Celtarabia, whose origins are surprisingly in East Yorkshire.

Others include the award-winning duo Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts, who met at Leeds College of Music, Róisín Bán, the Irish band from Leeds whose name means White Rose in Gaelic, and The Grand Old Uke of York, whose origins and instrumentation can be readily surmised.

From further afield (and travelling by coach) are former Albion Band’s fiddle player, Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble; upwards of 50 young folk musicians (it can be as many as 100) who have already earned accolades from festivals such as Towersey and Cropredy.

The “Spring Special” full weekend offer is currently on sale on the website www.beverleyfestival.com priced at £105, a saving of £10 on the full price with Concession and Family deals also available plus add on camping option. Festival FREE for the under 12’s!



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