Hebden Bridge Blues Festival '12

The second Hebden Bridge Blues Festival will run over three days from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd June 2012. The Bank Holiday is one week later in 2012 due to the Queen's Jubilee, hence the dates being in June.

Line-up

Headliners Todd Sharpville, Marcus Bonfanti, Paddy Milner, Ben Pooole and Mitch Laddie are joined by the Revelators, Crosscut Saw, Hooson and several dozen others. Also returning is the 'Women of the Blues' night. Cherry Lee Mewis, Jenna Hooson, Lucy Zirins and others will be firing up the audience on their exclusive Sunday 3rd night at the Picture House. Forty bands playing at eight venues all within a quarter of a mile of each other.

Friday 1st June

Blue Horizons Stage: The Revelators, The Ben Poole Band, Paddy Maguire, Midnight Jam Session.

Saturday 2nd June

Blue Horizons Stage: Rabbit Foot, Babajack, Angelo Palladino, Diamond Dac, Texas Rose, Mitch Laddie, Paddy Maguire Midnight Jam Session.

Main Stage: George Lindsay Bues, Lewis Hamilton and The Boogie Brothers, Russ Tippins, Bare Bones Boogie Band, The Todd Sharpville Band.

Sunday 3rd June

Blue Horizons Stage: Tom Attah, Dave Arcari, Poplar Jake, Fran McGillvray, Crosscut Saw, Marcus Bonfanti and Paddy Milner, Paddy Maguire Midnight Jam Session.

Main Stage: Binsness Bluesboys, Rhythm Zoo, Idle Hands, Lucy Zirins, Hooson, Cherry Lee Mewis.

Tickets

Tickets from £10 Friday to £55 Weekend. To buy tickets, click here.

More info

The hubs of the festival will be the Picture House and the bar@rplace in the centre of Hebden Bridge which will also run the popular Midnight Jam Sessions where some of the artists who have played elsewhere during the day get the chance to play together and make a little blues history.

The Festival manages a mix of well established high profile talent with new artists playing new material. This policy has brought a lot of national interest and several thousand visitors are expected to flock to the town over the week-end.

Free events

The festival also spreads across town with half a dozen local pubs and bars putting on blues bands and solo artists with free admission.

Accommodation

This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the area.

More information will be here when available.