Beverley Festival teams up with Hull’s Fruit for a great festival warm-up concert

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Beverley Festival teams up with Hull’s  for a great festival warm-up concert

The Beverley Festival (Folk, Acoustic, Roots) will be presenting its first pre-festival warm-up concert of the year at its partner venue, Fruit in Hull’s Old Town, on Thursday 7^th April, featuring some of the best local talent around today.

As well as one of Hull’s favourite bands, Circus Envy, it will be bringing two of the region’s best young bands to Hull; Blackbeard’s Tea Party from York and Sea Fret from Bridlington.

Circus Envy, an alternative-folk band feature a line-up of primarily acoustic instruments, which adds a traditional sensibility to their intricately crafted harmony-led modern songs with use of bouzouki, mandolin and cajon.  Last year the band released an EP - "A New Dawn" which reached the HMV Folk CD Top 40 and received critical praise and reviews. The track "Three Score and Ten" received significant BBC airplay, including on BBC Radio 2.

Back to Hull again, after having performed at the Half Past the Weekend concerts last Summer, are Blackbeard’s Tea Party.   

A young and lively six-piece band from York, they play traditional and contemporary dance tunes and new arrangements of folk songs and sea shanties, with heavy electric guitar riffs, fiddles, melodeons and an eclectic feast of international hand percussion, with occasional brassy outbursts and some surreal synth bass – all combined to create a sound that is big, tasty, dramatic, danceable and totally unique.

The youngest musicians performing will be Sea Fret, an acoustic duo from Bridlington who write and record their own music as well as doing covers from artists such as Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Paolo Nutini, Bob Dylan, Eva Cassidy and many more.  

Their youngest member is 15, but already the duo have been recorded by Radio Humberside as well as having performed all around the region. Certainly a duo to watch.

The concert, is being supported by the English Folk Dance and Song Society as a part of their “Folk Rising” programme, which supports young performers throughout England.

This is funded by the Arts Council England.

Venue: Fruit, Humber Street, Hull

Date: Thursday 7^th April – 8.00pm

Tickets: £8.00

Available From www.beverleyfestival.com / www.fruitspace.com (On-line)

01377 217569

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For more details about the festival, who’s playing, and to purchase tickets including the Special Weekend deal currently available, visit www.beverleyfestival.com or call the festival office on 01377 217569

Artists confirmed to date

Paul Carrack and band

Barbara Dickson and band

Bellowhead

Michael McGoldrick & Friends

Salsa Celtica Acústica

Martin Carthy  ● Spiers & Boden

Henry Priestman ● Southern Tenant Folk Union

Sean Taylor ● Ewan McLennan

Bernard Wrigley ● Noel James ● Jerry Harmon (USA)

Forro Porro ● Fay Hield Trio

ahab ● 4 Square ●  Moore Moss & Rutter

Jim Boyes ● Georgina Boyes ● Adrian Spendlow

Area 2 (Youth programme) artists

Blackbeards Tea Party

David Gibb & the Pony Club

Raj Raj Raj ● Anna MacDonald

4 Square  ● Moore Moss & Rutter

Pilgrim’s Way ● Harry Rowland

Acoustic Sessions

Circus Envy ● Paul Liddell ● Wendy Arrowsmith
Boss Caine ● Hissyfit  ● Broken Ground
Benjamin Leftwich  ● Dan Wilde ● Troubabour
Edwina Hayes  ● Dream of Apollo
The Duncan McFarlane Band
Dave Keegan ● Andy Stones
Catriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
Jonny Dobbs ● Mark Wyn
Rebekah Findlay ● Dan Webster Band
Jessica Lawson ● The Gerry McNeice Band

Shortlisted for Best Family Festival at the 2010 UK Festival Awards

For further information:

Festival Office, The Stables, Westwood House, Main Street, N. Dalton, Driffield, E Yorkshire, YO25 9XA

01377 217569     www.beverleyfestival.com