Oysterband hint at Big Session revival

By Scott Williams | Published: Wed 15th Oct 2014

The Big Session 2015

Saturday 2nd to Sunday 3rd May 2015
Buxton Opera House, Water Street, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6XN, England MAP
from £23.50 to £29

After the last official The Big Session which was held at Catton Hall, Walton-on-Trent, South Derbyshire, from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th June 2012 there has been no news of the event returning - until now.

The event was organised by Oysterband who have published on their website, (here), the following statement:

"You may have noticed that we haven't run a Big Session Festival for a couple of years.
The reasons are several, but between the atrocious weather we experienced at Catton Hall and the fact that people's wages in UK, despite the "recovery", are still falling, now is a very risky time to launch a full-scale festival at a new site.

However....

....we had such great times, and public and artist reaction was so warm, we certainly haven't given up on the idea.

We've decided we need to start again with a shorter, simpler event, and see how far we can build it back up over time. We had a very successful evening at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill in September under the "Big Session" banner, with Oysterband, June Tabor and Sam Carter; so in 2015 --

Watch this space!

The Big Session grew out of the spirit of after-hours music sessions between artists and festival goers and started in 2005 at De Montfort Hall, before taking to the road and hosting a day at Devon's Beautiful Days Festival in 2011, with the Catton Hall event happening the following year.

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