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| Andrew & Michael joining in |
From the opening of the weekend with the children of Longcroft School and Steeleye Span to the closing on Sunday with Joe Brown the weekend transcended the wet and mud with a wealth of wonderful music.
Throughout the weekend the Yorkshire Gig Guide team was out and about capturing the flavour of Beverley Festival in film, photographs and interviews with the bands.Harry Priestman had done a wonderful job encouraging and teaching the local children in the upper years of Longcroft School and they performed songs they had written in their workshop with him. Jessica Lawson, Lady Maisery and Steeleye Span followed in style and the festival was well and truly opened.
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| Broken underground |
Whilst this was happening artists were also playing in the Wold Top Marquee and The Concert and Dance Marquee. To end the night there was a Late Night Festival Club in the Wold Top Marquee hosted by Leila of Moonbeams.
Saturday brought workshops - including harmony singing, melodeon workshop, storytelling and Danish music. There was poetry, a moving poignant talk about his work by writer Ian Clayton and tea time dancing with Elfynn. There were outdoor performances - between the showers - in the Festival Village from Morris Dancers, clog dancing, wandering players and many, many more throughout the weekend.
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| Frumptarn Guggenband |
Area 2 presented a wonderful selection of young, up and coming artists all showcasing their various talents at different times during the Festival. This was a favourite place for the gig guide team.
Andrew and Denis managed to catch the World Goes Local concert featuring Humba Rumba, Hope Choir and Kingston Allstars. At this time Eve and Alison interviewed some of the young people who attend the local high school and volunteer to work at the Festival during the weekend. And of course the team met up for tea and cake in the Cafe Vibe in the leisure complex and shared their stories of the festival so far.
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| Humba Rumba |
Once we had sampled the catering round the Festival Village, Eve went to see the Peatbog Faeries in the Main Hall, Andrew and Denis went to see The Sail Pattern in the Area 2 Mid Summer Concert. Alison - not a late night party girl - went to bed!
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| Kingston Allstars |
Sunday woke up bright and clear. The rain seemed to have passed and the ground was drying out. Denis and Alison planned to go to the folk service at St Nicholas's Church. However when they tried to drive the car out of the car-park they became totally stuck in the mud! By the time they had been rescued the service was half finished so every cloud having a silver lining - so it is said - they were able to watch The Alligators who were an unusual choice at 10.30 in the morning but woke us all up with their rousing rhythm and blues.
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| Just Jamming |
Eve decided to take up a roving role for the rest of the day, sampling the various performances around the site and town. Meanwhile Denis and Andrew caught up with the jammin session led by Broken Underground outside the sessions tent. Very soon Andrew had managed to borrow a guitar and took great pleasure in taking part along with those other people who joined them.
All too soon we were coming to the end with final concerts. Eve and Andrew visited the Festival Farewell Party and dropped in to the Area 2 Finale whilst Denis and Alison had the privilege of going to see The Finale Concert including Furnace Mountain and of course Joe Brown. A great ending to a wonderful festival.
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| Jamming in the Wold top |
Thank you one and all. Hope to see you all again next year.
Denis Heaton
Yorkshire Gig Guide
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| Jamming in the Eat In tent |
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| Broken Underground |
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| Humba Rumba |
A small selection of the entertainment this weekend
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