More artists have been added to the line-up page including Sarah Savoy’s Hell-Raising Hayride, Blair Dunlop, Catherine Burke Band, Quinns Quinney, Inu, 4Square, Feral Beryl, Beth Johnstone. Make sure you take a look on the Line-up page
Category Archives: Just Booked
Just booked! BLAIR DUNLOP
BBC FOLK Award winner and former Hollywood actor Blair Dunlop is the latest addition to the Purbeck Folk festival. The 22-year-old scooped the prestigious BBC Horizon Award last year, for his first album Blight and Blossom.
Folk music is a family affair for Blair, whose dad is bass guitarist and founder of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, Ashley Hutchings, and whose mum is singer Judy Dunlop. This year saw Blair release the musically adventurous second album, House of Jacks – and will play Purbeck with his widely praised trio that includes BBC Folk Award nominee Katriona Gilmore on fiddle.
Just Booked! SALLY BARKER
Yes, the latest addition to our line-up is Sally Barker (as seen on The Voice).
Armed with a voice that makes grown men cry – and that includes her mentor Sir Tom Jones – star of BBC’s The Voice, Sally Barker is the latest addition to the bill at Purbeck Folk Festival.
With six solo albums to her name and a touring career that has seen her open for the likes of Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Richard Thompson and Fairport Convention, not to mention being a founding member of revered all-female folk outfit The Poozies (she left to start a family in 1996 and was replaced by Kate Rusby), Sally is no stranger to the music business.
But in the wake of her heart stopping performances on The Voice earlier this year that took her all the way to the final and consistently left all four judges with tears in their eyes, Sally is pursuing her musical career with renewed vigour and jumped at the chance to play at Purbeck alongside previously announced headliners Turin Brakes, Eddi Reader, Lloyd Cole, The South, Nizlopi, Chris Wood and Idlewild Acoustic.
“There I was, thinking what a fantastic line-up we had, all complete, no space left on the bill,” says Purbeck Folk Festival director Paul Burke. “Then out of the blue an email arrived from Sally Barker. I have loved her singing for a long, long time – and then voted for her on The Voice.
“We didn’t think twice, just emailed back: ‘You wuz robbed. Come and play at Purbeck!’ Booking Sally is the icing on the cake for this year’s Festival. Thrilled!”
Just booked – NIZLOPI
We are delighted to announce that Nizlopi will be joining us on the Friday night of Purbeck this year. Having split in 2010, five years after the runaway success of the platinum-selling, chart-topping The JCB Song , Nizlopi reformed last summer to play a few festivals and remembered they really liked being Nizlopi, which is why Luke Concannon and John Parker are playing more shows this year. We saw them at the Festival Organisers’ Conference showcase and they were just fantastic.
Just announced – TURIN BRAKES
Yes, Turin Brakes join the already epic Purbeck line-up for 2014. These guys were awesome at a little festival we saw them at last year and they will be perfect for Purbeck.
IDLEWILD ACOUSTIC to play Purbeck
YES – we at Purbeck camp are VERY excited to announce that RODDY WOOMBLE’s getting the old band back together… Idlewild Acoustic will be playing at Purbeck 2014. This is going to be awesome!!
This is not an April fool joke – this is actually happening! Yayayayaaaaaaayay!
Martha Tilston & the Scientists
Back by popular demand…
We are very pleased to welcome back Martha Tilston to Purbeck. This will be her third time. And this time she returns with her band The Scientists.
More fantastic music just booked…
Dan Whitehouse – Aimee Mckenzie – Sound of the Sirens – ODi
And the best of the local acts…
We’ve not had them for a while so we welcome back…
Tinderbox
Alex Roberts – doing a workshop too
Fearne
More amazing music…
Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo
CoCo & the Butterfields
Gren Bartley Band
John Langan Band
Caravan of Theives