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THE OLD STATION POCKLINGTON JULY 16TH - 18TH 2015

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PLATFORM M USIC & COM EDY FESTIVAL IN THE OLD RAILWAY STATION

Dave Str eather Senior Manager, York & Hull 07802 176377 pocklington artscentre EAST YORKSHIRE’S PREMIER ARTS VENUE WELCOME TO THE 1ST PLATFORM MUSIC & COMEDY FESTIVAL

We hope you have a fantastic time with us and thoroughly enjoy all that is on offer. We believe that our line-up includes some of the finest artists around. It is an absolute dream-come-true for Pocklington Arts Centre to welcome Five times Grammy Award winner Mary Chapin Carpenter to the town on the opening night of our festival. With support from BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer Of The Year in 2014, Bella Hardy, it is sure to be a memorable evening. Friday is comedy night as the venue turns into Al Murray’s Summer Saloon with Chris Ramsey and Craig Campbell, complimented by house band Charley Farley Sunday Four. After the show ends stay a while and let your hair down with our party band East Coast Vagabonds. On Saturday we are delighted to present a full day of music with headlining the main stage – Platform 1 (excuse the pun!), preceded by a veritable feast of music by The Magic Numbers, The Shires, Stornoway, David Ford, Sam Griffiths and Buffalo Skinners. Platform 2 stage will feature local musicians Barcode Zebra, The Grand Old Uke of York - yes, you guessed it a 14 piece ukulele band plus Beth McCarthy, TE Morris and Dan Webster. We are grateful to Arts Council England for their financial support of this stage. We are also pleased to present Platform 3 stage outside which features young musicians from York’s Access To Music College. Please support them – you might spot the ‘next big thing’! Pocklington Arts Centre is a not-for-profit venue, in the heart of the town, presenting a diverse range of events including film, music, theatre, comedy and art exhibitions. Please check out our website for our year-round programme of events. Special thanks to Pocklington School for allowing us to use The Old Station, all the artists, PAC staff, volunteers,Brass Castle Brewery for organising the bars, sponsors and traders who together make this an unforgettable weekend.

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LINE-UP AT A GLANCE ARTIST TIME STAGE

SAM GRIFFITHS 1.00pm Platform 1 BUFFALO SKINNERS 1.35pm Platform 1 BETH MCCARTHY 2.10pm Platform 2 DAVID FORD 2.40pm Platform 1 TE MORRIS 3.25pm Platform 2 STORNOWAY 3.55pm Platform 1 DAN WEBSTER 4.50pm Platform 2 THE SHIRES 5.35pm Platform 1 THE GRAND OLE UKE OF YORK 6.30pm Platform 2 THE MAGIC NUMBERS 7.15pm Platform 1 BARCODE ZEBRA 8.15pm Platform 2 BELLOWHEAD 9.00pm Platform 1

*Times are approximate and subject to late change

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Bellowhead are widely praised for their stunning live shows and often acknowledged as one of the best live acts the UK has produced in recent years, wowing audiences in venues across the UK, Europe and North America and becoming a key fixture on the festival scene. In the process they’ve won BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Live Act an amazing 5 times, as well as Best Group twice. A blistering 11-piece band fusing folk, funk, rock, world, jazz, music hall and classical music, they have placed themselves at the cutting edge of the contemporary music scene while harnessing all the power and mystery of English and European musical traditions.

THE MAGIC NUMBERS THE SHIRES Two pairs of siblings, led by the The groundswell of interest in prodigiously talented lead singer country music in the UK is now and songwriter Romeo, who make officially unstoppable. But one of a beautiful sound emphasised by the acts helping to make country angelic three-part harmonies. The cooler than ever on this side of the vocal mix brings to mind the music of sixties harmony Atlantic aren’t from Tennessee or Texas, they’re from groups, but there are influences from all over the place Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. They look and sound flawlessly combined. With a great set of original songs, great, and they’re all set to take their country-influenced this band are busy mapping out a timeless musical music to the world. Step forward, The Shires. territory of their own.

STORNOWAY DAVID FORD In 2010 Stornoway alighted on David is a British musician who the UK music scene, eschewing first achieved prominence with academia and the dreaming spires the indie rock group Easyworld. As of their hometown Oxford, with their a solo artist, he has released four single ‘Zorbing’. They were set apart to date, two of which were by a gentle magnetism and lead singer Brian Briggs’ named “ of The Year” in both The Sunday Times “exceptional ear for that most distinctive of sounds – and Word Magazine. described him as the British pop melody”. Now in 2015 Stornoway have “unmissable… one of Britain’s best.” received glowing 4/5* reviews for their latest album Bonxie.

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Hull Office:Wilberforce Court, High Street, Hull HU1 1YJ York Office:Rowntree Wharf, Navigation Road, York YO1 9WE www.rollits.com THE BUFFALO SKINNERS and electronic dance hits will get those lovely little The Buffalo Skinners began life as a feet of yours tapping away or jiving (yes we did say busking band in 2010, channelling electronic dance hits)! They have big vocals, electronic their old folk and skiffle heroes to ukes and occasionally free ukuleles as they uke to Avicii, small crowds in Scarborough. 5 years The Coral, Queen, ACDC, Katy Perry, The Rolling Stones, and tens of thousands of miles later The Cure, Elvis and maybe some George Ezra! the band have earned themselves a sizeable group of fans in the UK, Europe and the west coast of America. In September 2014 The Buffalo Skinners were selected by BBC Introducing to play at Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park DAN WEBSTER with ELO and Blondie. Dan Webster is a seasoned English singer-songwriter. His music is influenced by sounds and story telling traditions of American and BARCODE ZEBRA British (in broadest sense), Barcode Zebra are a Yorkshire-based Americana and Rock and Roll. Americana UK described four-piece band who write and him as ‘A Hybrid of Damien Rice, and play original material – imagine the Tom McRae’. love-child of Tracy Chapman and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The band are already getting rave reviews from artists, promoters and venues and have supported the likes of David BETH MCCARTHY McAlmont, Chantel McGregor and Paul Carrack. Beth is a York based singer-songwriter who has been gigging with her acoustic guitar since mid 2010. Taking her influences from Ed Sheeran, Ellie T.E. MORRIS Goulding, Damien Rice and the lyrical T.E is an ambitious performer. Within stylings of Nizlopi, her style has been described as his band, Her Name is Calla, he acoustic pop with a slight ‘country-esque twang’. Beth leads through wild dynamics and plays a mix of her own songs, some poignant, some near-claustrophobic intensity. In 2014 catchy, all well-crafted, and cover versions in her own he performed in Channel 4’s BAFTA dynamic style. winning drama Southcliffe and in 2015 he contributed to the Yellow Bird charity compilation which features King Creosote, Dry the River, Andrew Bird and many more. SAM GRIFFITHS The “impossibly fresh-faced and prodigious talent now based in York” THE GRAND OLD UKE has had such recent praise as his “lyrics are descriptive, and tragically OF YORK relatable,”, and “plays with delicacy, The Grand Old Uke of York is sings with realism,” and with “songwriting chutzpah” Yorkshire’s most vibrant ukulele has transformed from the singer-songwriter with just collective. Funk, rock, soul, country an acoustic guitar to a singer backed by a super-tight, super-talented full band.

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