Didmarton Bluegrass Festival 2012

Now in its 24th year, Didmarton Bluegrass Festival, held annually at the Kemble Airfield site, in Gloucestershire is a bluegrass and acoustic music festival. Attracting the top names from the UK and international bluegrass scenes, the event takes place between Thursday 30th August and Sunday 2nd September 2012.

Line-up

The Davidson Stage

Thursday Night: Damien O'Kane.

Friday Night: The Great Western Revellers, The Slowdown Boys, Bill Smarme & The Buziness, The Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys, The Down County Boys.
Friday Afternoon: The Knockdown Boys, Ghost Town Showdown, Stomping Dave Allen, Cedar Hill.

Saturday Night: Land's End, Miranda Sykes Trio, Peter Rowan, Flats & Sharps, Cedar Hill.
Saturday Afternoon: Monroe's Revenge, North Atlantic Trio, Home Territory, Sons Of Navarone, Peter Rowan.

Sunday Afternoon: The Woodberrys, North Drive, Cedar Hill

Ogri Stage

Friday Night: Appalachia, James Froud & The Red River Band, Sweet Dixie Dreams, Anna Ryder.
Friday Afternoon: The Conway Mountain Bluegrass Band, Wooden Horse, Moonshine Creek, Cowbaby, The Allen Family Band.

Saturday Night: Vera Van Heeringen, Andrian Ngram's Jazz Dawgs, Kevin Brown's Shackdusters, Kidnap Alice, The Coal Porters.
Saturday Afternoon: Jenny Crook & Andy Cresswell Davis, The A & E Old Time Band, Bob Phillips And The Dylan Rythm Band, Hatful Of Rain, Katrina Gilmore & Jamie Roberts.

Sunday Afternoon: Prairie Dog, The Fiasco Brothers.

Tickets

An adult full weekend ticket (inc. camping) is priced at £70, a two day Saturday & Sunday ticket (inc. camping) is priced at £65. Adult day tickets (all with no camping) are priced at £30 for Friday £37.50 for all day Saturday, and Saturday night only (after 5pm) £32.50, Sunday all day is priced at £25. The Thursday concert is priced at £15. Additional nights camping (per person/per night) is £7. Children aged under 14 are admitted free. To buy tickets click here.

Other attractions

The festival offers a range of musical styles that also embraces blues, jazz, folk and everything acoustically in-between, packing in around 35 artists, during nine scheduled concerts along with instrument and dance workshops, bonfires, banjos and a biker run bar that never seems to close.

Didmarton also offers a raffle, displays, workshops, concerts, dance displays, instrumental seminars, the tuition tent, a wide range of traders and quality catering.

Camping

A full weekend ticket permits you to camp on site from Friday morning until noon on Monday of the festival weekend and has facilities and showers. Arrival on site is permitted from Wednesday afternoon. Additional nights (Wednesday and Thursday) are subject to a surcharge.

Please note that all the site facilities will be operational from Wednesday afternoon until Monday morning. The bar will be open from Thursday through to Sunday night.

More information will be here when available.

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