The Great British Folk Festival: Folk Music With A Twist!
Released on: July 21, 2010, 4:56 am
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Butlins Family Holidays
Industry: Entertainment
Butlins is famous for offering great family holidays and music festivals such as the forthcoming Street Dance Festival and All Tomorrows Parties at the Minehead Resort.
Now its beachside Resort in Skegness is getting in on the act with *The
Great British Folk Festival. This is a truly top class event featuring
live performances from The Legends of Folk Rock, the Gathering,
including current and former member of Lindisfarne, Steeleye Span,
Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention and Magna Carta. Also appearing live
on stage are Acoustic Stawbs, still led by Dave Cousins, Sandi Thom,
Kate Rusby and Richard Digance plus lots more.
The town of Skegness has a
long and proud tradition of Folk music, in fact folk-rock legends Steeleye Span were
named after a character in a local song, ‘Horkstow Grange’. Steeleye were one of the
first bands to expand folk music beyond the folk clubs and into the singles and
album charts
Folk music fans have always been open to new talent as well as hearing the infusion
of other influences in the music; Celtic, Blues, Country, Rock…. even comedy - and
many aspiring artists and bands were drawn to the folk clubs during the sixties and
early seventies, knowing that their music would be listened to and allowed to
develop.
Many of those artists continued that musical experimentation throughout a
decades-long career.
The Great British Folk Festival aims to reflect this light and shade of Folk music,
with the familiar, the not so familiar, the new and the ‘hang on, didn’t he used to
play with….?’. In the latter capacity, the festival boasts performers who are former
or current members of such bands as – Lindisfarne, Fairport Convention, Dire
Straits, The Blues Band, Strawbs, Boomtown Rats, Cat Stevens band, Jethro Tull, Rory
Gallagher band, Smokie and …Steeleye Span.
Welcome to The Great British Folk Festival; Folk music – with a twist.
Prices for this amazing festival start at just £72pp for the entire weekend break including accommodation, access to most of the Resort facilities and all live
entertainment. To book a Butlins break call 0845 070 4730 or visit www.bigweekends.com/folk
* All guests must be aged 18+ years
Editor’s Notes
Confirmed Line-Up To Date:
Kate Rusby
Acoustic Strawbs
Sandi Thom
John Renbourn & Jacqui Mcshee
Oyster Band
Hunter Muskett
Deborah Bonham Acoustic
Richard Digance
Gary Fletcher Band
Phil Cool
The Dylan Project
Gordon Giltrap
Jiggerypipery
Shinjig
Away With The Faeries
Legends Of Folk Rock – The Gathering
(Inc Current Of Former Members Of – Lindisfarne. Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull,
Fairport, Magna Carta)
Rod Clements
Stackridge
Nine Below Zero Unplugged….
For More Information on the Folk Festival contact:
Dave Hill, Tenacity, m: +44 (0) 7951 679666, T: +44 (0)1429 424603, E: daveianhill@yahoo.co.uk; http://www.butlins.com
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