Dent Folk Festival 26th to 28th June 2009

A Great Line Up and Stunning New Site with Camping!

Well is been all go at Dent HQ and we have quite a bit of news.
firstly we have an outstanding international line up for Dent 2009...

Artists playing the main marquee
Adrian Edmondson and The Bad Shepherds ~ Ade and his superb band play
punk songs in folk a style!
Transglobal Underground~ one of the most original Roots Dance Fusion
acts on earth!
Solas~ the most popular, influential, and exciting Celtic band to
ever emerge from the United States.
Andy Irvine~ a folk legend! One time member of Planxty and Woody
Guthrie's representative on earth!
Tony Wilson~ our resident story teller and a very fine folk singer to
boot!
Kila ~ one of Ireland's most innovative and exciting and unique
bands.
The Karine Polwart Trio~ Outstanding multi award winning Scots
songwriter.
Faustus~ three of the most pivotal players in the English roots
revival of the past decade.
Chris Wood ~winner of the BBC Folk Awards 2009 best singer and best
album!
The Black Umfolosi 5~ sweet acapella singing and captivating dancing
from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Keith Donnelly and Les Barker as 'Idiot and Friend' ~ actually we
suspect their both idiots!
Katalena ~we're celebrating Sedbergh's links with Slovenia, with
Slovenia's greatest roots music band!

And a great programme of free events
Children's Songs, Stories, Puppets, Street Theatre and Crafts. Music
in the The Beer Tent with guests of the festival. The Session Tent
hosted by Bill Lloyd and The Lakeland Fiddles. Song walks from the
festival site with David Burbidge. Workshops in Appalachian Dance, New Tunes, Circus Skills, Arabic Dance and more. Dance spots from invited dance teams and The Legendary Dent Folk Festival Ceilidh!!!

Full details of our 2009 programme are on our website www.dentfolkfestival.co.uk

Stunning new site!
As you may well know the festival is moving to a new site near
Sedbergh. In a nutshell we have outgrown our original site in Dentdale and although we are very sad to leave we didn't really have much choice if the festival was to continue. So we are moving to an
absolutely stunning setting at Buck Bank Farm under the Howgill Fells
near Sedbergh, Englands book town. If you would like to read the full
background to this move see our website. There will be a free shuttle
bus to and from Sedbergh from the site to get supplies and visit the
local pubs for a few tunes!

This year we will have on site camping!
We're really pleased about this as many of our regulars have asked
us over the years to run a festival campsite. By camping on the
festival site you will be making a major contribution to the
sustainability of the festival. The camping will be basic but
comfortable. The site is in a fantastic setting and you'll be with a
great crowd of other festival goers, so lots of potential for sessions and meeting people from all over the place with a shared passion for music. We will have a limited amount of camping tickets available for people who wish to camp on the site and just attend our free events or are just coming to play tunes in the sunshine and go for a walk.

For other accommodation in the area contact Sedbergh Tourist Office
www.sedbergh.org.uk, tic@sedbergh.org.uk, 015396 20125

To Book Tickets
Click Here To Buy Tickets On-line go to www.dentfolkfestival.co.uk
If you book your tickets online the festival pays less commission so
more of your money goes in to sustaining the festival!

Call 015396 20125 To Buy Tickets Over The Phone

To Download Tickets By Post Booking Form go to
http://www.dentfolkfestival.co.uk/downloads/bookingform.pdf

Please forward this news to anyone you think it may interest

The Dent Folk Festival 2009 is Sponsored and Supported By...
Kendal College, The Black Sheep Brewery, South Lakeland District
Council, Folkus, Killington Marquees, Sound Support, Stramongate
Press, Nationwide Fire Training, Ben Lyon, Kim Lyon, Hobgoblin Music
Leeds, imageacoustic.com, Dolphin Stair Lifts, KV2 Audio, Sedbergh
Lookaround, The Sedbergh Soap Company.
The Dent Folk Festival is a not for profit organization