Take three sunny days, over 100 performers, around 3500 visitors and 6000 pints, and you have got the recipe for a weekend to remember! Crawley Folk and Beer Festival 25 - 27 June 2010 attracted crowds from across the country, who came to soak up the atmosphere in The Hawth Grounds, peruse the stalls, watch the dance displays, listen to top performers from across the globe and enjoy a pint or two of some of the finest ales on offer in the UK.
The weekend got off to a blistering start with Americana-inspired October Rising, who opened on the new Beer Tent Stage. The free performances on this stage proved a huge hit with the crowds who were drawn to listen to an array of bands across the weekend, offering up folk, Americana, blues and Irish tunes to accompany the food, drinks and other activities being enjoyed.
The highlights came thick and fast from the likes of Rún, and the Jemima Price Band, with the Martin Simpson Trio packing out the woodland Amphitheatre as the sun went down on Saturday. On Sunday, celebrated Australian blues-rock guitarist Geoff Achison and The Souldiggers closed the festival with a bang as they performed with all the passion and explosive energy audiences have come to expect from the band.
Crawley Beer Festival was exceptionally popular, with a number of the 70 plus ales, ciders and perries selling out and overall sales well ahead of last year. The selection on offer included Kissingate’s Old Tale Porter and Warlock, both brewed in Crawley, and King’s Old Dad from Horsham, so festival goers really could enjoy a truly first class local tipple.
Crawley Folk Festival would like to say a massive thank you to eveyone who joined us over the weekend, we hope you had as much fun as we did!
Keep checking our myspace page for details of next year's fest and we will see you very soon.
SAMEDI 11
SEPTEMBRE Concert-Bal à
20h30 avec Julien Barbances, Les Pantouflards, Amuséon, La Société Fraternelle
des Cornemuses du Centre
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SEPTEMBREChâteau de
Picquigny
Concerts avec la Société Fraternelle
des Cornemuses du Centre, les Pipassonneurs, les Ménestriers Picards - Conférence
« La corporation des Ménestriers d’Amiens » Contes avec Jean-Marie François
The Flying Toads are looking forward to playing on The Beer Tent Stage, Sunday 27th, 12:30 - 1:15! "Lively jigs and reels from highly talented Irish musicians!" Come and say "hello"!
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Hope you have another great festival in 2010, such a lovely atmosphere! We're not playing this year but a big hello to all the people who came to see us and bought our cds at the last two Crawley Folk Fests. All the people who were looking forward to seeing us again can catch us at a host of gigs in the South East. Just follow our myspace link to see the listings!
Thanks for add! I invite you to listen to my version of othe popular british song "Greensleeves" with a "touch" of spanish guitar. Bye! Amparo García-Otero. Singer and songwriter. Spain.
Hey dudes and dudettes! Next Stop HAVERSTOCK ARMS (Camden) on stage 30th Jan at around 10:15pm. NOT TO BE MISSED! eeZeee details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=25
Hey.. Thank you for the friendship and hope you have had a good 2010 so far!! I should be uploading a new song very soon and in the mean time, you can listen to my other songs on my profile. Happy New year!! Amanda N.G x
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem, & some songs, on myspace... Poem 187 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my blog for details): A SOUTH SHIELDS WALKABOUT - AUTUMN 2001
Out of the museum-and-gallery (Wiser on Cookson and the local way), Down Ocean Road with, to the right of me, Its eateries and, left, neat places to stay; Before, on either side, Marine Parks - The southern-one a most beautiful place, Teeming with moorhens, swans, grebes and mallards In a small lake at a scenic-hill’s base.
Then (holding chips from the parade’s cafe And, thus, a flock of gulls squawking above) Onto the South Pier I made my way: Seeing seaweed over rocks - like a glove - And high-and-dry sands held from transgression By growth of grass and the weaving of wood, Plus, in the dim light of a sleepy sun, Fishing boats returning to Tynemouth’s hood.
We really hope you can make it! See you there!
