Name: Willow Festival 2013
Start: 2013-07-12
End: 2013-07-14
Location: The Embankment

Willow Festival 2013

Friday 12th to Sunday 14th July 2013
The Embankment, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 1EF, England MAP
FREE

Daily capacity: 60,000

Last updated: Fri 14th Jun 2013

Returning last year after a nine year hiatus the three day event attracted in excess of 50,000 visitors in 2012 and continues to be the city's premier arts event showcasing 123 live bands and many solo acts as well as comedy and street acts over seven staged areas.

Happening for three days from Friday 12th until Sunday 14th July to within the surroundings of the Embankment of the River Nene in Peterborough and entry to the site will be FREE - just as it was before.

Line-up

Friday:
Main Stage: A Story To Tell, Aladdinsane, Empress of Fur, Flashback Photograph, From the Sticks, Groove Cartel, Hooker, Ignition, Junk Puppets, The Balance, The Fleeting Minds, The Liquor And Poker Blues Band, The More I See, The 925's, Our Glorious Demonic Heist, Rocket 57', Symptom, Talanas, Tallawah, Untamed, Vendetta, and Zeb Rootz.
Acoustic Tent: David Reid, Identity Crisis, Lesley Curtis & Band, James Edmonds, 3 Days of Freedom, Andrew Cream

Saturday:
Main Stage: Backlash Blues Band, Burlesque, Camel Toe, Chris Watson Band, Federal Charm, Filthy Lucre, Finding Albert, Frances Wood, Freds House, GAD 80, God Monkey, Grounded, High Rollers, Lloyd Watson, Laurel Canyons, Latino Sound, Laurette Watson, Lets Meet Jesus, Lexie Green, Lunatrix, Magic Folk, Midnight Circus, The Deuce Coupe, The Guards, The Nuggets, Motor City Vipers, New Generation Crash and Burn, One Eyed Cats, Paolo Morena, Peachy Farmer, Pet Slimmers Of The Year, Rattleshack, Rocket Dogs, Shouting Signals, Silver Street, Smokescreen, Stone Kings, Stringfinger, Trouble With Tuesday, Tu Amore, The Guilty Ones, The Tunnel, Thumpermonkey, Wild Combination, and The Way Home Band.
Acoustic Tent: Faceless We Brave, Misty, Harry Seaton, Alice, HoneyWitch, My Cocoon, Meg McPartlin, Soloman Smith, Liza Marie & Friends, Denacious T, Aleatoric, Primakova, Isiah, Steve Bean

Sunday:
Main Stage: A Great Notion, The Deltaphonics, Bad Touch, Blackout UK, Black Hawk Down, Blue Print, BorderlineFire, Burning Codes, Children Of The Revolution, Djevera, Drive Angry, DestroyDC, Echoes of Floyd, Evarane, Fallen Breaks, The Floe, The Gangsters, Jakarta Club, King Kool, Show, Lamores, Lem & The White Fire, Leon, Lem and the white Fire, Let There B/DC, Lloyd Yates, The Jar Family, The Lightyears, Offshore Rivers, Phoenix Calling, Psyco Bombs, Radicus, Red Cow Down, Sacred Heart, Shake Hands Eric, SkyFight, Soft Tone Needle, Straw Bear, Tacoma Narrows bridge Disaster, Tower Of Cows, The Contrast, The Cornerstones, The Lamours, The Lightyears, The Logicals, The Lounge Crusade, We Are Fiction, and White Clouds & Gunfire.
Acoustic Tent: Grace Sarah, Chris Sampson, EnRoute, Soulweaver, Puss Brown

The festival is not a big name event and is focused on unsigned or new acts of all genres, although it often attracts bigger name artists too performing R&B, funk, soul, ska and more. So, if you're into live music of all genres, and put music above celebrity, this is an event you should love.

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The FREE family friendly event will also feature an extreme fairground, kids fair, comedy, art and crafts demonstrations, food village, alternative and exotic market, fair price bars and general silliness.

Camping

Camping will be available at a cost, although the festival itself is FREE. Details for camping to be announced in 2013.

For more information, see the Willow Festival website.

More information will be here when available.