Artists are listed in reverse order of appearance. Headliners will play around 9pm. Doors open 2pm on Friday and 11am on Saturday & Sunday with performances starting soon after.
Performance times can be seen at the festival information tent and bar and also in the festival programme.
FRIDAY 3rd september 2010
Main Stage
The Divine Comedy
Turin Brakes
Fyfe Dangerfield
Erland and The Carnival
Sparrow and the Workshop
Ben Calvert
Lunar Stage
Beth Jeans Houghton
Starless and Bible Black
Hannah Peel with Table
Vadoinmessico
Matthew P
SATURDAY 4th september 2010
Main Stage
Donovan
The Low Anthem
High Llamas
Johnny Flynn
Spider John Koerner
Alasdair Roberts
Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver
Lunar Stage
Goodnight Lenin
Dan Walsh and Will Pound
Jo Hamilton
Malpas
Megan Henwood
Arborea
Oh Ruin
SUNDAY 5th september 2010
Main Stage
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
The Unthanks
Lunasa
John Renbourn
The Destroyers
Martin Simpson
Bella Hardy
Lunar Stage
Cut A Shine
Rainbow Chasers
The Urban Folk Quartet
Little Sister
Broom Bezzums
James Hickman, Dan Cassidy and Deborah Hodgson
Samuel Walter
FRIDAY 3rd september 2010
Bohemian Jukebox Stage
Gurdan Thomas
Zoe Mulford
Tara Chinn
99*Star
Beneath The Oak
Fox
Tom Martin
The Gardenelles
Charlie
Bulls Head Pub
SATURDAY 4th september 2010
Bohemian Jukebox Stage
Zapoppin'
Perrot's Folly
Ben Calvert
Boat To Row
Workshop - Rapper Dancing with Ryknild Rabble
A Bull
Friends of The Stars
Rich McMahon
Z+
Workshop - Harmonica with Will Pound
Workshop - Clawhammer banjo with Dan Walsh
Bulls Head Pub
Workshop - Song Writing with Alasdair Roberts
SUNDAY 5th september 2010
Bohemian Jukebox Stage
Elfynn
James Summerfield
Richard Burke
Dust Motes
Workshop - Dancing with Cut A Shine
Loose Kites
Miranda Versus The Crok
Panda Su
Chase Mist
Workshop - Penny whistle with Belinda Hutchings
Workshop - Ukulele with the SCUPA
Bulls Head Pub
Workshop - Song with Bella Hardy
Workshop - Arranging Traditional Tunes with Elfynn
Fyfe Dangerfield
Fyfe Dangerfield is one of the most talented and creative musicians in the UK today, and locals at this year’s festival should be very proud that he is one of our own. Born in Birmingham and from Moseley, Dangerfield is the lead singer, songwriter and founding member of the last decade’s most experimental and successful indie-pop group, Guillemots. But despite being the main creative power behind hits such as ‘Annie Let’s Not Wait’, ‘Get Over It’, and ‘Made Up Lovesong #43’, his debut solo record ‘Fly Yellow Moon’, released this January, shows that he has been holding something back for himself.A quick perusal of Dangerfield’s CV, shows he’s not really your typical indie front man. In 2000 he composed a choral piece performed at the Litchfield Festival, which led to a commission from the Ex Cathedra chamber choir. He wrote a choral setting of one of the 'O Antiphons' for their millennium Christmas Music by Candlelight concert, which has since been frequently performed and was included on Ex Cathedra's Christmas Music by Candlelight CD which received some glowing reviews, and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. His many other commissions include ‘In Wait’, a 30-minute orchestral piece for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and 2009’s ‘Eggshell Walker’, which was performed by cellist Natalie Clein at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
On top of his two great Guillemots albums ‘Through the Windowpane’ and ‘Red’, and their worldwide tours, Dangerfield has also performed with his brother Al Hutchins’ brilliant psychedelic indie-rock band The Courtesy Group, featured on their first album ‘Tradesman’s Entrance’, and arranged strings for a host of other bands. Yet this apparently is not enough. In a recent interview, he said ‘I left school ten years ago and I should have more to show for it. I’m hoping my thirties will be more prolific.’ Amazingly, he seemed sincere.
‘Fly Yellow Moon’ is a ten-track album, mainly recorded in five days over Christmas 2008, which was initially not intended for released. The following months saw some tracks remixed, some strings added, and two were even worked on by Bernard Butler, but Dangerfield decided that the majority could be left untouched. On his website he explains they ‘didn’t seem to need any more polishing – we tried once or twice and it was like adding butter to cornflakes. So we took off the butter and let them be’.
Written in some stolen moments as the Guillemots promoted ‘Red’, ‘Fly Yellow Moon’ charts a year of Dangerfield’s life refocusing around a relationship, from the falling in love, to the emotional ups and downs of truly getting to know someone. Where the Guillemots songs can be found to ascend from low-key romance into stomping, bombastic crescendos, his solo songs start and remain on more austere and muted notes, but they retain, and perhaps surpass, the emotional power of Dangerfield’s previous work. ‘Fly Yellow Moon’ is an enthralling, euphoric affair, boasting fresh and vigorous numbers that sketch a history of classic singer-song writing from Beatles balladry to the intimacy of Neil Young and the melancholy of Nick Drake. But Dangerfield’s work isn’t pastiche; he powerfully stamps his unique personality on everything he touches. Long may it continue.
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