13 Aug 2014
PURBECK FOLK FESTIVAL BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND
The countdown is on to the sixth annual Purbeck Folk Festival from 21-24 August 2014. The award-winning music festival features headline acts including Eddi Reader, The South and Lloyd Cole as well as chart-toppers Nizlopi, Sally Barker from BBC's The Voice, Idlewild Acoustic and British folk legend Chris Wood.
The eclectic mix of top quality folk, world and pop music reflects the chilled out vibe of what is fast becoming one of the hidden gems of the festival calendar. Set on a 600-acre working sheep farm in the heart of the beautiful Isle of Purbeck, on Dorset's stunning Jurassic Coastline, Purbeck Folk Festival has music on four stages in the farm's covered barns and a marquee venue that hosts the Purbeck Rising talent show final and open mic sessions.
Named the Countryside Music Festival of the year in the prestigious Fatea Music Awards, as well as a line-up of well-known artists festi-goers can expect a dynamic bill of emerging and undiscovered talent including Emily Barker's new band Vena Portae, folk legend Ashley Hutchings' son Blair Dunlop, the Cajun powerhouse Sarah Savoy, multi award winner Martha Tilston and Senegalese griot Amadou Diagne.
It isn't just the music, however, that makes Purbeck Folk Festival. This bank holiday weekend festival combines loads of family entertainment, workshops, a poetry slam, spontaneous happenings, a cinema programme, the famous beard offs contest, a beer festival (including the Festival's very own beer, Buzz Lightbeer made with Purbeck honey), art interventions and a fancy dress parade.
From traditional campers to 'posh folk' Purbeck caters for the same variety of amalgamated accommodation tastes as its culturally multifarious music.
Until August 20 weekend tickets (Fri-Sun) include free camping are on sale at just £100 (£50 12-17 years, £20 4-11 years, under 4s free). Day camping is available on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at £10 a night on arrival. A limited number of Festival day tickets are also available.
Purbeck Folk Festival, 21-24 August, Wilkswood Farm, Langton Matravers, Swanage, BH19 3DU.
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For more information please contact Melodie Manners | melodie@flamingo-marketing.co.uk | 01209 822194
Full line up:
Friday
Eddi Reader, Nizlopi, Martha Tilston Band, Furrow Collective, ODi, Dan Whitehouse, Moscow Drug Club, Flats & Sharps, Macaferri Club, Winter Mountain, Murphy's Lore, Drew Allen, Big Tent & the Gypsy Lantern, Kadia, Beth Johnstone, Tim Somerfield, East Creek Union, Djambo, The Jack Ratts, Threadbare Ravens, Tred, Aimee McKenzie
Saturday
The South, Idlewild Acoustic, Sally Barker, Sarah Savoy, Phil King Band, Gigspanner, Martha Tilston Band, Roving Crows, John Langan Band, Gren Bartley Band, 4Square, ODi, Lizzie Nunnery, Louise Jordan, Threepenny Bit, Sarah Savoy (workshop), Sound of the Sirens, Macaferri Club, Big Tent & the Gypsy Lantern, Kadia, Mother Ukers, Catherine Burke Band, Feral Beryl, Kaia Vieira, Aimee McKenzie
Sunday
Turin Brakes, Lloyd Cole, Blair Dunlop, Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo, Caravan of Thieves, Coco & the Butterfields, Chris Wood, Amadou Diagne Band, Gren Bartley Band, Vena Portae, Alex Roberts, Tinderbox, Polly Paulusma, Fearne, Aimee MacKenzie, Ian Brown, Will McNicol, Flats & Sharps, Gill Sandell, Emily Barker (solo), Tori Read, Kate Lomas, The Jimmy Hillbillies, Ceilidh Band, Quinns Quinney, Krista Green, Inu
