Billy Bragg, and The Men They Couldn't Hang to headline Galtres

Billy Bragg, and The Men They Couldn't Hang have been revealed as the co-headliners who join the previously announced Seth Lakeman on Sunday at Galtres Festival.



Billy Bragg has for more than 30 years expertly married folk, punk, poetry and politics in his unrelentingly brilliant and powerful music. Unafraid of courting controversy, Billy has sided with a number of grass roots political movements while being an unashamedly outspoken opponent of fascism, racism, bigotry, sexism and homophobia.

Billy Bragg co-headlines with The Men They Couldn't Hang, back for a second time to Galtres, by popular demand, after playing a brilliant set last year just before the Levellers. "We had to stop them doing an encore so we could keep to schedule, but the crowd was going mad for more," explained festival director James Houston. "It was a tremendous show which equalled any band we've seen at Galtres. So we just had to have them back again."

Sunday night's other headliner Seth Lakeman headlines a day of folk and roots music running on the Oxman stage, and was announced in December. Headliners for Friday and Saturday at Galtres have still to be announced, but Martin Stephenson, Hope & Social, Littlemores, Virginia MacNaughton, Boss Caine, Jamie Brewer, Jon Gomm, Aelfen, James Cudworth, Sarah Horn, David McCaffrey and Roger Davies, have already been announced. For the line-up details as available please click here..

Festival organisers have booked more big names this year than ever before for the annual festival which takes place in Crayke, near York, to add to the 100 or so bands and artists performing over the August bank holiday weekend. The Galtres festival started out as a beer and cider festival that included local based musicians and has gone through a change over the last couple of years and is now considered more of a music festival that has some great locally produced beers/ciders on sale.

The family friendly festival will be taking place over three days this year on August bank holiday weekend, from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th August once again at Crayke, near York, Yorkshire.

An adult ticket is priced at £90, child (aged 5 -17 years) tickets are priced at £35, a family ticket (2 adults and up to three children) is priced at £250. Day tickets are priced at £50 for adults. Please note that prices will go up each month. To buy tickets, click here.

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