Artists appearing
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The Billy Mitchell Band
www.billymitchell.co.uk |
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With
a career spanning 4 decades it’s no wonder the Festival is
pleased to welcome the multi-talented singer, musician, actor
Billy Mitchell to bring his band as the headline act on Saturday
evening. In recent years Billy has been working with Peter
McIntyre as ‘Maxie and Mitch’, had a spell with Geordie
Heroes Lindisfarne and as a duo with Bob Fox. On this occasion
he brings his own superb band to the festival stage.
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The London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra
www.lpso.co.uk |
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After
their debut at Saltburn Festival in 2010 The London Philharmonic
Skiffle Orchestra will headline Friday night’s concert. This 4
piece band produce a high energy show including elements of
folk, jazz, and theatre with a multitude of props and costume
changes, not unlike the New Rope String Band.
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Flossie Malavialle
www.flossie-malavialle.co.uk |
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Saturday
afternoon’s headliner is the delightful Flossie Malavialle.
She appears fresh from her tours with Fairport Convention, Show
of Hands and a jaunt round Australia with Keith Donnelly as
‘Dark Horses’. She is fast becoming the Festival circuit
must have guest with repeat bookings coming thick and fast.
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Anna Shannon
www.annashannon.co.uk |
Anna Shannon was born in Scarborough and also
into a musical family, her grand father being a concert
pianist and her mother a jazz singer.
Anna later taught herself to play guitar, fiddle and saxophone
and discovered the folk scene and her ability as a songwriter.
Her musicianship has led her to be featured in line-ups as
diverse as skiffle, blues, jazz, folk rock, ceilidh and Cajun
over the years, but it is her award winning solo work that is
now earning growing acclaim. Her 12 string and harp like
classical guitar styles and honest voice along with unusual
instrumental pieces, makes refreshingly unique entertainment.
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John Wrightson Band
www.myspace.com/jwrightson |
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John Wrightson has spent many years
involved in music in his native North East. Initially working
with bands on the club circuit he became interested in
acoustic/folk music and since 1988 has been a prolific writer of
excellent songs, dealing with thought provoking, contentious
issues, ever since. Eight CD’s of original songs, all recorded
in his own studio, are available at gigs, with many now being
sung by legends of the folk world - Vin Garbutt to name but one.
Joan Edmundson on keyboards, vocals along with Kenny
Jobson guitar, vocals join John in the band. The John Wrightson
Band, quite rightly, has a strong local following and are
residents at the monthly Live Music Club held at Sedgefield
Cricket Club. John, Joan and Bob Edmundson organise this popular
local event where many of the Festival artists have recently
appeared.
The band will be first on stage on
Friday night to start the festival.
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Tom Kitchin & Gren Bartley
www.tomandgren.co.uk |
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Fellside
recording duo Tom Kitchin and Gren Bartley will make their first
visit to Sedgefield Festival. Their live performances have been
keenly received all over the UK as they begin to break into the
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The Cornshed Sisters
www.myspace.com/thecornshedsisters |
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The Cornshed Sisters are Jennie Redmond- Vocals,
Guitar and Ukelele; Cath Stephens- Vocals and Guitar; Liz Corney-
Vocals and Piano; Marie Nixon- Vocals and Guitar.
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The Young 'Uns
www.theyounguns.co.uk |
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Hartlepool
based The Young ‘Uns, a very young version of Teesside’s Wilson Family
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Andy MacLaughlin
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Andy is a well-known in the North-East as a renowned
musician and songwriter. He plays wind synthesiser and tin whistles with
Steam Radio, bagpipes and drums with Paul Martin and guitar with fiddler
Dan Hands when he does his own thing, but last year he stepped into the
Sedgefield limelight as MC for the Parish Hall concerts. Having seen him
make such a good job of it once we have no intention of losing him, so
Andy will again be in charge for the three main concerts.
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Bert Draycott
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Bert came to Sedgefield last year and walked away with the
World Spoons Championship (for the umpteenth time!). Can he hold onto it
in 2011 ?
He also performs on stage in the Saturday afternoon concert with spoons and a
whole lot more. Almost music hall in style, songs and stories rooted in
the culture of the North-East are interspersed with unashamed nostalgia.
If this is your first encounter with Bert you are in for a big surprise -
and you won't forget it in a hurry!
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The Scratch Band
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The Scratch Band are the
festivals workhorses. With Ernie Gilchrist on guitar/vocals/percussion,
Peter Brookes on guitar/vocals, Alf Shields as the Bassman and Garth
Hodgson who plays guitar, mandolin, keyboards etc.etc., the Scratch Band
run singarounds and play for the competitors in the world spoons
championship.
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The Old Age Travellers
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The Old
Age Travellers are a 4-piece band with a wide repertoire of songs
that are well loved in the folk world with a soft spot for the music
of Ireland and Scotland in particular. Their appearances are all about
audience participation and "having a good time". They will be
leading the Saturday evening get together in Ceddesfeld Hall from 7:45pm
until the care home drags them out!
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Northumbrian Pipers Society
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The
group of pipers playing at the Music Festival represent the Cleveland
Branch of the Northumbria Pipers Society. They are a local group in as
much that they hold their practices at the Ceddesfeld Hall Community
Association in Sedgefield. They are regular contributors to many of the
community activities in the village as well as having a busy calendar of
events elsewhere. Their existence means that this traditional pipe music
which originates in Northumbria is maintained.
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Lyrica
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Lyrica
comprises a group of people who have grown up in Sedgefield and have been
members of the various youth choirs that have been so successful in
encouraging young people to sing. Formed in 2005 following a successful
Sedgefield Lyrics Youth Choir reunion concert, the aim of the group was to
sing together again but in a small group, following their hearts in their
choice of music, taking decisions collectively, leading each other as an
ensemble, combining it all with a hefty dollop of socialising. Now Lirica
has rightfully achieved a place in the music traditions of Sedgefield with
an ever increasing popularity.
See
them in the
Saturday evening concert at St. Edmunds Church.
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Lol and Maxine Allan
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Lol and Maxine have been playing
music together for 30 years. Lol
plays the guitar and ukulele. Maxine plays clarinet, flute and
recorder.
The mixture of instruments gives them a wide range of sounds and they play
many styles of music from folk, standards, rock and pop with a few
surprises and twists.
Lol has recently turned his hand to teaching and runs a ukulele workshop
in Ceddesfeld Hall. Maxine is an experienced teacher of piano and woodwind
and runs Beat Buddies a class for young children also in Ceddesfeld Hall.
Enjoy
the music and don’t be afraid to sing and dance along.
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Fishburn Band
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At
this year’s Sedgefield Music Festival the ever popular Fishburn Band
will be represented by a section who will bring the concert in the Parish
Church to a close.
Fishburn
Band pride themselves on being one of the North East's premier brass bands
and have performed at a wide variety of venues up and down the country. Whether playing
at a wedding or competing in the Royal Albert Hall, all band
members work hard to ensure that the band maintains its high
standard. Fishburn Band consists of around 30 members, but they also
have a small brass group that are sometimes more suited to play in smaller
arenas. Rest assured, however, that the quality of performance
remains and audiences can expect an entertaining evening with a programme of
music to suit all tastes.
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Locos
in Motion are a mixed border morris side based at the village of Sadberge,
near Darlington. We say mixed, meaning for male and female dancers but
currently, the dancers are all female (although some of the musicians are
of the male persuasion).
We are dancers in the traditional Welsh Border (i.e. the English counties
bordering Wales) style. This involves blacking up our faces to disguise
ourselves and dancing vigorously while forcefully clashing sticks of
various lengths.
Our costume includes the
traditional rag jacket and clogs but, in our case, the jackets are black
and silver and we wear tall, stove pipe hats with big black and white
feathers and, of course, lots of bells. All these things are to represent
that famous old steam engine after which we are named - Locomotion Number
One. The hat is the funnel and the black, white and silver of the feathers
and rags represent smoke, steam and sparks.
Watch
out for ‘Loco in Motion’ and other dance teams round the village on
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