Organisers have announced the first headline act for an annual Hertfordshire charity music festival. Wilkestock 2018 festival line-up poster Wilkestock Festival will once again take place in the Hertfordshire countryside at Frogmore Hill near Bragbury End, Stevenage, over the weekend of Friday, August 31, to Monday, September 3. Scottish rock band The Fratellis, who are best known for 2006 top 10 hits Chelsea Dagger and Whistle for the Choir, will play Wilkestock 2018 on Saturday, September 1. A Facebook posting on Wilkestock’s page read: “1ST BAND ANNOUNCEMENT The Fratellis will be gracing our stage in the humble fields of Hertfordshire on Saturday the 1st of September alongside some other fantastic artists!” Also announced in the first wave of acts for the festival are Fizzy Blood, Strange Bones, Gold Key, Idle Frets, Blushes, The Kut, Leader, Defences, Hertfordshire-based record producer/solo performer DIDI, Echoic, Fiende Fatale, Minnie Birch, The Scruff and … [Read more...] about Charity music festival line-up headliner announced
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Music Festival pioneer Lillian Convery dies aged 82 after years of being Mum
A founding pioneer of the Harrogate International Youth Music Festival has died aged 82. Lillian Convery was part of the Harrogate Worldfriends branch and helped house international language school students.Together with her friends Margaret Britton and Margaret Eves she found host families for young musicians attending the very first International Youth Band Festival in 1973.As the festival grew they were tasked with finding places for over 500 young musicians each year.The first Director of the International Youth Music Festival, Mike King, said: “The Festival’s success, relied upon finding so much host family hospitality that it would have been impossible without Lillian and without her it would never have thrived as it did for so many years.” Mrs Convery, known for her warmth and instinctive humanity, was the festival Matriarch and a surrogate Mum to youngsters from overseas.Supported by her husband Bill and their daughter Christine she had great charm, unfailing … [Read more...] about Music Festival pioneer Lillian Convery dies aged 82 after years of being Mum
PICTURES: Children perform at Bideford Area Schools Music Festival
Gallery PUBLISHED: 11:47 29 March 2018 | UPDATED: 11:50 29 March 2018 Sarah Howells The Bideford Area Schools Music Festival. Picture: Graham Hobbs Archant More than 300 children from 10 schools performed in the annual Bideford Area Schools Music Festival. Choirs from Appledore, Bideford College, East-the-Water, Hartland, Instow, St Helen’s, St Margaret’s, St Mary’s, West Croft and Woolsery joined together for a musical celebration. The children learned two pieces which they performed at Devon Hall as a huge combined choir, accompanied by Bideford College’s own Bideband. The Bideford Area Schools Music Festival. Picture: Graham Hobbs The pieces, O Fortuna by Carl Orff and All Together Now by The Farm, were arranged and directed by the Babcock LDP Music Lead, Debbie Kent. Each choir then performed a pre-rehearsed piece on their own with the variety being clear from 1960s pop through musical theatre to Ed Sheeran and some contemporary choral works. … [Read more...] about PICTURES: Children perform at Bideford Area Schools Music Festival
New music festival at Broadwood
North Lanarkshire Leisure is holding its first ever music festival at Broadwood Stadium this June. Broadwood: Live by the Loch will take place on Saturday, June 2, and feature some well-known Scottish musical talent.Scottish legend Dougie Maclean is set to kick the party off as he celebrates 40 years since the release of “Caledonia” one of the greatest Scottish anthems of all time.Second act on the bill is Mànran who have been promoting the Gaelic sound across the word since forming in 2010 from the cream of the Highland folk scene. Top of the bill for Live by the Loch will be the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, who in ten years went from a cameo appearance at T in the Park in 2004 with The Darkness to opening the main stage in their own right.The past decade have seen the Red Hot Chilli Pipers become the most famous bagpipe band on the planet - ever!Kevin MacDonald, of The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, said: “We are delighted to perform at Broadwood Stadium in June.“One … [Read more...] about New music festival at Broadwood
Mid Argyll Music Festival comes to town
Want to read more?We value our content and our journalists, so to get full access to all your local news updated 7-days-a-week – PLUS an e-edition of the Argyllshire Advertiser – subscribe today for as little as 56 pence per week. Subscribe NowThe 39th Mid Argyll Music Festival kicked off on Saturday March 17 with chanter and piping contests at Ardrishaig Public Hall. The festival will then encourage budding poets with two sessions for in the poetry section for performers, judged by Luis Allan, who also judged at the Argyll Drama Festival. On Wednesday March 21 there will be performances from primary school pupils in the solo singing, duets and ensemble alongside ‘music is fun’ classes. Popular songs from the performances will take place in the evening.Secondary pupils will take to the stage on Thursday March 22 performing solo singing and duets joined later by performers in the piano classes. This year the music festival is delighted to welcome two groups … [Read more...] about Mid Argyll Music Festival comes to town