Event details @ www.sherstonfest.com
Tickets on sale now on line and via local outlets
Prices from £9 for Friday night only, to £24 for the weekend
Tag line “SherstonFest – a celebration of contemporary British music and traditional English cider in a rural Cotswold setting”
Info
Drawn from the very best of the contemporary British music scene, SherstonFest 2013 will be showcasing acts covering genres from hip-hop to jazz from electro swing to punk-pop and hailing from Russia, via FreetownJamaica, on to London and Birmingham and even into deepest North Wiltshire.
Highlights? Too many to list, but here are just a couple of snippets to get your juices flowing!
Electric Swing Circus – what can we say? Fronted by the sassy Sisters of Swing with the addition of live drums, fretless bass, gypsy jazz guitar, keys synths and swinging samples. The Electric Swing Circus hotfoots it through their own unique blend of Electro Swing, fused with everything from Breakbeat, house, Drum and Bass, Dubstep and more. If you missed them at WOMAD and Fieldview last year then now is your chance to swing your pants electro stylee (Saturday night)
Lazy Habits – Didn’t make the Hackney based crew’s recent gig @ Colston Halls…? well shame on you! But fear not SFHQ was there and were just blown away by their unique sound (influenced by New Orleans jazz, soul and the Big Bands of the 50’s but blasted into the 21st Century with hard hitting beats and slick lyrics) – so they will coming to a field near you on Friday 14th June!
The Ten Pound Suit Band – Ah “The Suits”, if you were at the Sherston Fire and Ice Ball you probably already get it. If you weren’t then think of The Rinky Dinks but replace the ukuleles with a mad man on banjo and wild woman trumpet, then and replace skiffle with bluegrass/swingabilly and you get the idea…. The ultimate party band, no one gets out without dancing!!
Sam Green and the Midnight Heist – the best lap slide guitar you have ever heard, add in a band with more energy than Hinckley Point (feat. local boy James Cameron of Fieldview/Old School Tie fame) and some real foot stompin’ tunes and there is a guaranteed ho-down going on!
And there’s so much more !!!! Future Dub Orchestra, Mammoth Sound, Show It Off, Troy Ellis (son of rocksteady legend Alton) and the Hail Jamaica Reggae Band, smooth operators The Atelier, insanely cool jazz rock from Kenworthy, local girl Sophie Stead – want more ? What about the haunting sound of Old Colours and add in local fav’s The Soul Destroyers, Henry Green, Miss Da Funk – even the now legendary “wake and shake” set from The Sherston Village People and I am just getting too exited!
That’ll do for starters? I think I have to go an lie down now…. as ever lots more info on the web site and more to follow – so stay tuned listeners!!
And remember IT WILL BE SOLD OUT so get your tickets now before it’s too late!!
Set in the heart of one of the south Cotswolds most beautiful villages the festival is on 14th and 15th of June this year and tickets are on sale via the festival web site.