Cornwall-based songwriter, musician and former ‘shoegazer’, Neil Is signed to the Brushfire Records label alongside Jack Johnson and G Love, and supported Johnson on his last tour. At the festival he’ll be playing songs from his latest album, Oh Mighty Engine.
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Lead singer of The Magic Numbers, Romeo Stodart, will be performing a special acoustic set in the Caught By The River area with enchanting folk songstress, Kathryn Williams.
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Fingerstyling guitarist and vocalist David Tubbs returns for more powerful and emotive wanderings. Tag along for a musical odyssey through bittersweet ballads and liquid melodies, not to mention the odd detour into “straight-ahead static misery”…
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New wave diva and chatelaine Hermine Demoriane is a "slapstick Nico-esque" singer, writer and former tightrope walker. She has sung with Rod Melvin, The Moodies and the Damned’s offshoot band, The Subterraneans. Two "intoxicating, mysterious" albums released in the 1980s - The World on My Plates and Lonely at the Top - have recently gained a new audience thanks to the internet. Hermine’s witty, folksy third LP, Who’ll Come Walking, came out last year.
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One of the pioneers of American blues guitar-playing this side of the Atlantic, Ralph McTell has been a voice to be reckoned with on the UK folk scene for over four decades. An adopted child of US beatnik counterculture during the 1950s and 1960s, Ralph’s musical storytelling owes as much to Jack Kerouac and Woody Guthrie as it does to the black guitar legends that inspired him to strum the life out of an old ukulele and form a skiffle band before the age of 15.
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Celebrated ‘fishing and culture’ website, Caught By The River, has gained a cult following for its evocative call to escape the rat race and celebrate the most important things in life – time, pleasure, books, music, cake and much more. Brought to us by Jeff Barrett, Robin Turner, and Andrew Walsh, Caught By The River will be hosting a special area by the estuary and presenting a varied mix of happenings in keeping with the website's unique spirit.
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Serving up a fantastic fusion of sweet country music, southern soul, bluegrass, blues, western swing, hillbilly boogie, proper beardy rock n' roll, swirly southern psychedelia and other random treats, My Window Faces South brings you "all that's righteous and groovy from the south – God, whisky, sex, death and horses!"
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Hailing from the remote highlands of West Papua on the island of New Guinea in the southwest Pacific, the Lani Singers’ deeply emotive songs are rooted in the sacred rituals of the Lani tribe, whose way of living has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of years. Their music also embodies a powerful modern day message of their people’s struggle for freedom – “spirited and passionate raw roots music...a tribute to human resilience” (World Music Central).
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Writer, musician, composer, nightclub host, actor and all-round legend, Richard Strange has played a key role London’s cultural life for the last 30 years. The Sex Pistols, Joy Division and The Jam supported his first proto-punk band, The Doctors of Madness, in the 1970s. Since then, Richard has remained as diverse as he has prolific; working with Tom Waits and William Burroughs, writing numerous articles and books, and appearing in films like Batman and Gangs of New York.
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A dash of country, a pinch of ska and a whole fist full of rock 'n' roll, the Dulwich Ukulele Club have plundered the musical omniverse to create a twisted skiffle band for the 21st century.
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