Bellowhead to headline revived Bristol Folk Festival

Bellowhead will headline Bristol Folk Festival which is being revived, after a gap of 32 years.

Bellowhead have been named as the first of three headline acts for next year's event which is the idea of music promoters Jan Ayers and Steve Parkhouse. The multi award-winning 11 piece folk juggernaut will bring the three day Bank Holiday festival to a flamboyant finale.

Frontman Jon Boden said, "Bellowhead are delighted to have been asked to headline and programme the main stage music for May Day at the Bristol Folk Festival. With some festivals sadly disappearing in the current climate it's great to see this one making a comeback after 32 years and we'll be giving it all our support."

Co-organizer Jan Ayers added, "It's a real coup to get one of the biggest – in every sense-names in acoustic music to top the bill on the final day of what will be a bumper 'back again' Bristol Folk Festival."

Organisers hope the event will have major acts, ceilidhs, workshops, sessions, singalongs, family-friendly entertainment and local performers. And he said that as it was over the May Bank Holiday there would be Maypoles, mummers and Morris dancers. Plus street parades, buskers, circus entertainers, poetry, story telling, a market and stalls, and bars, food, and posh loos.

The event will take place over three days indoors at the city's Colston Hall during the May Day Bank Holiday weekend running from Friday 29th April to Sunday 1st May 2011.

Seth Lakeman, has agreed to be patron. It is hoped that up to 3,000 people will come along from Bristol and around the country. There will be something going on from 10am to midnight each day. One of the stages will be named in memory of the much-loved folk musician Fred Wedlock, who died in March this year.

Early bird adult tickets are priced at £60 for the three days. Children under 5's free of charge, and children aged 6-16 will require a concession ticket priced at £50. A family tickets (2 adults + 2 kids) are priced at £190. To buy tickets, click here.

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