Musicport Festival 2014
17th - 19th October - Whitby Pavilion Complex, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
www.musicportfestival.com Tel 01947 603475
Plans are well under way for this years Musicport Festival - voted Indoor Festival of the Year 2013 in the recently announced Fatea Awards.
With several headline acts still waiting to be confirmed there is already an impressive line-up taking shape – with full info below.
Artists confirmed so far include:
v Catrin Finch & Sekou Keita(Wales/Senegal)– stunning meeting of top Welsh harp player & master Senegalese kora player.
v The Crazy World of Arthur Brown –homecoming of the God Of Hellfire & Whitby's most famous son.
v AMINE & HAMZA(Tunisia) Celebrated worldwide as geniuses on their oriental instruments the oud and the kanun.
v Robyn Hitchcock from his days in The Soft Boys to his current cult status , one of the UK's great musical heroes
v Jesse Bannister's Play Out featuringZoe Rahman – new quartet led by Indo- jazz saxophonist Jesse, MOBO Award-winning pianist Zoe Rahman & Mercury Prize-nominated drummer Seb Rochford alongside Corrine Bailey Rae bassist Kenny Higgins.
v John Smith –guitar genius from Devon who is gaining mainstream recognition with his latest album Great Lakes
v Kathryn WilliamsMercury-nominated and with the voice of an angel Kathryn is a national treasure.
v PeruNIKA TRIO (Bulgaria) polyphonic harmonies that will astonish in their complexity and beauty.
v LUCY WARD BAND - award winning & cutting edge folk singer from Derby with her fine band
v NEW ROPE STRING BAND Once seen, never forgotten: an indefinable confusion of superb musicianship and side-splitting comic genius
v TANTZ – remarkable & energetic young klezmer band from Leeds
v TASHI LHUNPO MONKS (Tibet) – keeping alive the wonderful and impressive rituals of Tibetan culture
v MY SWEET PATOOTIE (Canada) – dazzling musicianship and entertaining stage show
v ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER – Sharp-tongued, high energy, social surrealist rebel poet and songwriter.
v O'HOOLEY & TIDOW powerful, thought provoking and deeply moving songs from acclaimed Yorkshire duo
v THE BEVVY SISTERS (Scotland) Mixing equal measures of sweetness and sass, grit and glamour, heartbreak and hilarity – cut with a dash of potent Scottish spirit
v VÄRLDENS BAND (SWEDEN) – exciting young multicultural band from Stockholm on first UK tour
http://www.musicportfestival.com/festival-info/2014.html
TICKETS ARE ALREADY SELLING WELL & THEY ARE CURRENTLY £85 (£80 concessions) for the full weekend.
Contact: 01947 603475
email: info@musicportfestival.com
Organiser Jim McLaughlin said "We've got some really exciting additions in the pipeline but already we feel we have a great line-up that will only get better in the coming months . Living up to last years event will be very hard but we're up for the challenge and hope to get a great crowd out for our launch event with Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba on 14th March at Whitby Pavilion who have been described in The Independent as "the best rock and roll band in the world"
Musicport is a not for profit community business promoting live music and music education on the Yorkshire coast.