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
Martin Simpson
In the 11 year history of the BBC Folk Awards, Martin Simpson has been nominated a record- breaking 23 times. You can only imagine how many times he would have been nominated had the awards been around at the start of his career. Oddly, after more than 35 years as a professional musician, Martin Simpson now seems to be better than ever. Commonly accepted as one of his generation’s finest exponents of the acoustic and slide guitars, his intense, eclectic and spellbinding live shows have long been considered moving storytelling masterpieces.Simpson spent 15 years living in the US very well. He now carefully combines diverse elements of British, Afro-American, and old-timey music to brilliant effect. He breathes new life into popular and less well-known traditional works, and his own song writing has also produced some real gems from the epic ‘Love Never Dies’ to the moving ‘Never Any Good’ and ‘One Day’.
In a career which has seen him spend time on stage with Jackson Browne, Cara Dillon, Martin Carthy, and Steve Miller among many, many others, Simpson has released 17 solo studio albums, not to mention live, collaborative and compilation records. He’s been crowned BBC Folk Awards Musician of the Year twice, and has won a whole host of other awards, particularly for his last two albums.
2007’s ‘Prodigal Son’ provoked unanimous praise from press and public alike, and the accomplished eclecticism of last year’s ‘True Stories’, which effortlessly embraces New Orleans jazz and countrified pedal guitar, may even have topped it. The CD was nominated for 6 awards, winning Best Traditional Track for ‘Sir Patrick Spens’.
Simpson is guaranteed a place in folk history, but he seems intent on making some more history first.
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