Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival

Subject: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: GUEST,Merlin's Keep
Date: 12 May 13 - 04:37 PM

The 5th Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival takes place from 25th-27th May 2013 at Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway. This is a free festival. Over 60 ciders available, plus draught ales, and food. There is camping available, please email [e-mail] if you intend to camp and we can give you details.

Line up is as follows:

Saturday 25th May
12pm                John Conolly
1pm                The Honeykeepers
2pm                Holly Taymar & Christopher Bilton
3pm                Dick / Tracey
4pm                The Dukes

7pm                Amy Naylor
8pm                SNAK
9:15pm               Merlin's Keep
End                 10:30pm

Sunday 26th May
12pm                Richard Papps & Roger Beard
1pm                Shindig
2pm                Helian Keys
3pm                Rebekah Findlay
4pm                James J Turner

7pm                Jody McKenna Band
8pm                Jabberwocky
9pm                Ploughmen's Bunch
End                 10:00pm

Monday 27th May
12pm                Sam Martyn
1pm                Andrea Ferguson
2pm                Green String Theory
3pm                Philip Cockerham with David Bowie Jr
4pm                Gone To The Dogs
End                 5pm

8pm                Acoustic Sing around at Mucky Muldoons,
                King's Road, Cleethorpes. Everyone welcome.

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: GUEST,GY morris man
Date: 13 May 13 - 01:12 PM

Plus there will be displays of Morris dancing on the Saturday and Sunday.
They will be dancing at various venues near to the festivals center.

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: Rockhen
Date: 13 May 13 - 08:04 PM

This intimate and friendly festival is well worth a visit. A wide variety of music and the cider is pretty good too!

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 May 13 - 01:45 AM

And don't miss Helian Keys...... what can I say..... will try to make the effort Helen. X

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: May Queen
Date: 14 May 13 - 06:14 PM

Sounds like heaven!!!

Bit far for me but have a zider (as we say in the West Country) or 6 for me :)

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: Rockhen
Date: 14 May 13 - 07:43 PM

Thank you Georgiansilver! It would be lovely to see you. I really miss you all from Faldingworth as I rarely see/hear any of you now it is a concert club. Hope you are doing ok. Fingers crossed we get nice weather but we will be ok if not and did I say it would be really lovely to see you?! Ooops, I did! :-)
It is well worth coming along to and please come and say hello if you are there when we are doing our bit on Sunday afternoon! :-)
Please pass on the info to anyone you think may be interested, too :-)

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: GUEST,cookieless bloke
Date: 15 May 13 - 04:06 PM

Any tune/mixed sessions NOT singarounds during the weekend? It would be fun to have a plink and twang during that weekend.
Lawrie

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: GUEST,Merlin's Keep
Date: 18 May 13 - 06:58 AM

Some further info. Apart from the music, don't forget the Morris Sides, who will be performing all over the resort. They are an integral part of the festival, and certainly a lovely spectacle, adding colour and atmosphere to the whole event.

There will be a craft fair on the piazza near to the Light Railway Station, on the Sunday (26th May) and there will also be 2 performances that day (one on the piazza and one at the sandpit by the boating lake) from Birdhouse Theatre, a children's theatre company.

There is camping available for anyone wishing to stay over the weekend. Please email [e-mail] for info about this.

One other thing. We already have the budget set for 2014, which will be the 6th festival, so if anyone is interested, or knows anyone who is interested in being booked, please email at the above address. Particularly looking for new acts to mix in with the returners.

And don't forget it's a FREE event.

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 13 - 12:37 PM

We MUST be due some good weather for this event! :-)

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 13 - 12:46 PM

Oops that was me, Rockhen. On someone else's laptop! :-)Not sure how I put that!

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 13 - 03:50 PM

any news on who the morris teams are and where and when they can been seen?

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 May 13 - 04:51 PM

Is there car parking nearby? If so at what cost please? Thanks

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: Shoreliner
Date: 28 May 13 - 02:24 PM

What an excellent weekend. Well done to all who helped put it together. Good farewell singaround on Monday night too. Would have liked a musicians session (or two) as well, perhaps another time.

An original way of doing this might be to pick a few of the tune sets off the BBC Radio 2, "Virtual Session" as "Festival Tunes" for the year (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/). That way people who are new to session playing or are perhaps a bit nervous at the prospect of a solo at a singaround would have a chance of learning up a few tunes that they know will definitely be played by the session leadership during the session.

Hope this helps,

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: GUEST,MK
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 01:11 PM

Thanks for making contact via email, Shoreliner. I don't visit the forum that often, so wouldn't have seen the message. The festival is definitely going ahead next year, so watch this space!

Subject: RE: Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival
From: Rockhen
Date: 02 May 15 - 01:20 PM

This years festival is going ahead ...please say Hi if you are there Sunday lunchtime as I am doing a solo spot at 12.30. Looking forward to catching up with some music friends that weekend :-)

Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival 2015
23rd - 25th May 2015 - Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway

The 7th Cleethorpes Folk & Cider Festival promises to be bigger and better than ever. With live music, Morris Dancing, impromptu sessions and in excess of 90 ciders and real ales, there really is something for everyone.

Here's the line up.

Main Stage - Lakeside Station
Saturday 23rd May
12:30 Shanty Jack
13:15 Hase Waits
14:15 Backyard Buskers
15:15 Gilded Thieves
16:15 Starvin' Sid
17:00 Session on the station
19:00 Gerry McNeice Band
20:00 Leather'o
21.00 Merlin's Keep
Ends 22:30

Sunday 24th May
12:30 Helen Bennett
13:15 Ramble Gamble
14:15 James Turner
15:15 Jack's Rake
16:15 Deuce Manouche
17:00 Session on the station
19:00 Steve Jackson
20:00 Leafblade
21.00 Steel Threads
Ends 22:00

Monday 25th May
12:30 Amy Naylor
13:15 Andrea Ferguson
14:15 Beggar's Bridge
15:15 Itchy Fingers
16:15 Shindig
17:00 Session on the station

Cleethorpes Folk and Cider Festival info