Keep watching this space as we confirm our 2012 guests !!
Dyer:Cummings
Following a
lively ceilidh in the town hall in 2011 we just had to book
Dyer:Cummings again for 2012. They will be playing on our
opening night, in Dulverton Middle School hall! Dyer:Cummings are a lively young band who are guaranteed to give you a great start to the festival weekend.
Fable of the Bees
Hot News !We are more excited than very excited people to be able to tell you that we have been able to book 'Fable of the Bees' to headline our Saturday night concert. This top folk/rock band is headed up by Paul James of Blowzabella fame. Dig out those dancing shoes !!
Harry Skinner and Dave Saunders of the Producers
Will be playing on Sunday night at a venue
yet to be confirmed.
Carrivick Sisters
Twin sisters Laura and Charlotte play bluegrass with fantastic skill, including their own songs with spectacular harmonies. We are very excited that they are not only going to be playing a concert on Monday 4th June, but will be running a workshop as well :)
Farrago
Farrago play a unique
alternative-folk combination of acoustic guitar, melodica
and beautiful vocal melodies. They perform songs of
adventure; of loves sought and lost; and of the only thing
which seems certain - the unexpected. Rag
Morris
We are
delighted to be welcoming Rag back for their 3rd year at
Dulverton!! "...has acquired its own inimitable style over the last twenty five years - energetic, colourful, comic, a bit 'off-the-wall', certainly never boring and very rarely normal. We wear brilliantly coloured rag shirts and bells. Our repertoire comes from the dances of the Cotswold Hills and the wild Welsh Borders, and we dance with sticks, hankies, bare hands and plastic chickens, to the accompaniment of melodeons, accordions, whistles etc."
Get Singing Workshops with Phil de la Haye
Another very welcome returnee to our festival is
Phil de la Haye who has run singing workshops for us over the
last two years. The feedback has been phenomenal, with many of
you asking if Phil will be joining us again! So, we are
chuffed to bits that she has indeed agreed to come for 2012.Even if you have never considered yourself a singer, during the workshop you will find that you are not only singing well within a group of others, but you are singing harmonies with relative ease. Workshops include a wide variety of songs, and include some fantastic harmonies... they are thoroughly enjoyable and one of the unmissable events of the weekend.
Move over Gareth Malone, you have competition!
Melodeon workshops with Matt Swindlehurst.
Matt has played melodeon for over thirty years. He played for 1st Sedgley Morris Men for over ten years, led 'Scotch The Rumour' ceilidh band throughout the '90s and currently plays for West Somerset Morris. He has attended workshops led by, (amongst others), Pete Coe, John Kirkpatrick and Brian Peters, and will be passing on a host of tips to improve your playing and help you get the most out of your practice.
