Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6

Subject: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: GUEST,Banjiman
Date: 28 Jan 13 - 10:17 AM

Bedale Acoustic Music Festival (BAMfest) new for 2013! May 31st to June 2nd.

A manageable Festival with riverside camping facilities (including Children's indoor play area and petting farm, bar, session and one concert venue on site) within easy walking distance of all town centre venues & facilities.

Bedale is a beautiful, small Yorkshire Town known as "The Gateway to The Dales" but just a couple of miles off the A1(M).

Weekend Tickets:

Early Bird £42 (£47 with camping) Before March 31st
Full weekend £50 (£55) after March 31st

Lots of other ticket options (including session only) and full information at BAMfest website

Fantastic Local and National Acts including:
Bob Fox, Blackbeard's Tea Party, The Young'uns, Dave Kelly, Henry Priestman, Simon McBride, Flossie Malavialle, Blackbeard's Tea Party, Dan Walsh and Christi Andropolis, The Duncan McFarlane Band, Tom and Barbara Brown, Sunjay Brayne, Purple Mafia, The Conspirators, Merlin's Keep, Hissyfit, Dave Gibb, Steve Chapman Smith, Keystone Acoustic, Kyle Frazer, Midway Arcadia, Carole Palmer, Honeykeepers, Shindig, Amy Rainbow, Ray Storr, Strings & Things, Andy Broderick, Vacant Expressions, Gary Grainger, Phil Cockerham, Three Sheets T'Wind, Phil Snell & Gerry Cooper, David Swan, John & Caroline Bushby, Moose Rosser, Backyard Buskers, Helian Keys, The Jon Palmer Band, Brother Crow and GLJJ

Mixed and specific genre Sessions and Singarounds.

Ceilidh and Morris dancing, workshops etc, etc.

Come and join us!

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: SylviaN
Date: 28 Jan 13 - 12:22 PM

Hi Folks
I feel I need to clarify for those of you who know "Three Sheets to the Wind" as being made up of Keith Kendrick, Geoff Higginbottom and Derek Gifford. The group appearing at Bamfest is a different group who perform Punk-folk, not maritime material.
Cheers
Sylvia

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: GUEST,cheeky young'un
Date: 28 Jan 13 - 01:10 PM

surely a collaboration is called for Sylvia :)

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: GUEST,Banjiman
Date: 28 Jan 13 - 02:39 PM

Sorry Sylvia ..... we'll have to give the "other" 3 Sheets To The Wind a gig in the future to make up for it :-)

Especially if you'll do a collaboration ...... 6 sheets To The wind maybe?

Paul

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: GUEST, Jim Hancock
Date: 29 Jan 13 - 05:42 AM

Hi Banjiman

Free Publicity.....

If you would like to add BAMfest to the Yorkshire Folk Arts Festivals listing page you can do so by visiting http://www.yorkshire-folk-arts.com/directory/festivals.htm

and click on "Click HERE to get your festival listed" (Near the top of the page)
It's Free

All the best

Jim Hancock

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: SylviaN
Date: 29 Jan 13 - 05:58 AM

Collaboration sounds fascinating. I'll put it to the guys.

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: GUEST,Banjiman
Date: 29 Jan 13 - 07:14 AM

Thanks Jim.

I look forward to it Sylvia :-)

Paul

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: Uncle Tone
Date: 29 Jan 13 - 10:40 AM

What a shame it clashes with:

Yorkshire Air Ambulance Folk Weekend

Tone

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: GUEST,Banjiman
Date: 29 Jan 13 - 01:47 PM

Yes it is a shame ...... some of the Bamfest committee members ran a fundraiser for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance last year. So it is a cause close to our hearts.

What can you do ...... we've had a web presence since September last year, that isn't hard to find. I don't know when the Air Ambulance fundraiser was set up?

Paul

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: Uncle Tone
Date: 29 Jan 13 - 06:00 PM

It's OK. We'll go ahead anyway. Our catchment is probably more YAA supporters and Great Heck Brewery fans than folkies, and Steve Tilston will pull in a crowd anywhere.

It's a shame for me because I would have liked to have come to your fest. I wasn't aware of the dates until it was mentioned here, and I had checked all the lists that I could find.

Then there are the other events that have appeared recently on that weekend; the autoharp festival at Gargrave, the Doncaster folk fest and Swaledale festival. Damn! There just aren't enuff weekends in June!

Tone

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: Rockhen
Date: 29 Jan 13 - 08:12 PM

Looking forward to coming along. Thanks to all involved with the organisation and to anyone else who works similarly on other events and festivals. Without you all, working your festival wellies off... it would be a miserable and quiet world! :-)

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: GUEST,Banjman
Date: 30 Jan 13 - 06:54 AM

It's a nightmare Tone. Couldn't find any reference to The Doncaster festival (actually your post is the first I've heard of it).

We've been in dialogue with the Swaledale festival and decided(with them) that our event is complimentary to theirs rather than clashing in any way. They have no "folky" events that weekend and are doing nothing in Bedale this year (Swaledale fest runs for several weeks throughout Swaledale and covers all arts).

I guess people can pay their money and take their choice!

Why not come up on Friday night or Sunday?

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: Uncle Tone
Date: 30 Jan 13 - 07:00 AM

I would but I'm running singarounds on both days. If I've got any singers that is!

Tone

Subject: RE: Bedale Acoustic Music Festival 31/5 -2/6
From: GUEST,Banjiman
Date: 24 Mar 13 - 12:22 PM

Just one more week for you to take advantage of the Early Bird prices. Prices go up on April 1st.

So don't be an April fool, book now - it's not often you get offered a bargain in Yorkshire!