Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A big thank you on behalf of Hope House

Hope House has counted the money they collected on Sunday and it was a record £1,578. Its stall made £460 and with the donation of £1 for every adult weekend ticket sold from us, they're on course to beat last year's total of £5,396. Over the past four years we will have raised more than £20,000 for music therapy that helps the children communicate and express themselves. The hospice receives NO other funding for music therapy so every penny you help to raise is important. So thanks for your generosity - it will truly make a difference.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

End of Festival Survey

Well that's it for 2011! Thanks for making it such a great festival!

We hope you all made it back home safely and in good time.

Our end of festival survey is now online here

SHREWSBURY FOLK FESTIVAL 2011 SURVEY

Please take the time to complete this, we read and consider everything you write and it genuinely shapes how the festival is put together - PLUS we will randomly select one person to win a free ticket for the 2012 festival

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Live webcam feed





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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Site webcams

This year we have installed 4 cameras on the site and we have live feeds from these online right now

You can watch the site build this week, and we'll keep the feeds live so you can see what's happening on the site during the festival.

Online here

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Online Main Stage Broadcasts

If you are unable to make to the festival this year, then don't forget that we broadcast all our mainstage one concerts, live and free on the festival website

The mainstage one performance schedule is

FRIDAY 26th
19:35 Kepa Junkera Band
20:50 Cara Dillon
22:10 Bellowhead

SATURDAY 27th
12:45 The Wilsons
13:55 Jim Moray
14:45 John Tams & Barry Coope
16:00 17 Hippies

19:30 Martyn Joseph
20:35 Show of Hands
22:00 17 Hippies

SUNDAY 28th
12:30 Clog Fest
13:40 Chris Wood and Andy Cutting
14:50 Spiers and Boden
16:00 Gerry O'Connor

19:30 Chris Wood
20:45 The Sweetback Sisters
22:05 The Imagined Village

MONDAY 29th
13:00 Calan
14:15 Breabach
13:25 Johnny Dickinson
16:30 Oysterband and special guests

Live broadcasts will be on the festival website here

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Festival Beers for 2011

Our list of beers for 2011 is now complete - here you go, there are 47 of them in total.......good luck!

Hobsons
Twisted Spire
Hobsons Mild
Hobsons Best Bitter
Town Crier

Hook Norton
Hooky Bitter
Hooky Dark
Hooky Gold
Old Hooky
Haymaker

Pardoes
Entire
Original
Dark Swan
Bumblehole

Three Tunns
1642
xxx
Solstice
Clerics Cure
Old Scrooge

Salopian
Shropshire Gold
Darwins Origin
Hop Twister
Oracle
Lemondream

Enville
Enville Ale
Enville Ginger
Old Porter
Enville White
Nail Maker Mild
Pheonix

Ludlow
Ludlow Best Bitter
Ludlow Gold
Boiling Well

Wye Valley
Wye Valley Best Bitter
Butty Bach
H.P.A
Summer Sting
Dorothy Goodbodies

Woods

Shropshire Lass
Shropshire Lad
Quaff
Athletes Ale

Kirkby Lonsdale
Monumental
Jubilee
Ruskins
Radical

Timothy Taylors
Landlord
Taylors Best Bitter

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Programmes

The festival programmes have arrived, so if you ordered a programme when you purchased your festival tickets, then this should be delivered to you by the weekend.

One small change this year, every programme has a small pocket sized insert that has an at-a-glance 4 day schedule for the two main marquees, Sabrina and the dance marquee - hopefully this will make planning a little easier and mean you don't have to keep a programme with you at all times!


Saturday, August 06, 2011

Cecil Sharp Project - interviews from the songhouse

Great video piece from inside the Cecil Sharp Project songhouse from Bright Young Folk - interviews with all the artists, a glimpse at how the week was structured and how some of the songs came together.