‘Putting NORTHAMPTON MUSIC 365 shoe town ‘Showcasing and celebrating the outstanding on the music culture of our town and county’ music map’ We seek to enhance the profile of Northampton through music. Each and every performance in the Northampton Music Festival has been sponsored by a local music enthusiast or a local business which makes the festival what it is. Festival Director : Graham Roberts Thank you for your support of this year’s festival. If you have an interest in working with us on next year’s festival please contact us on: [email protected] Festival Map Mon - Sat Listing MON 11th JUNE KING BILLY | Original Rock Band Night Umbrella & BBC Music TUES 12th JUNE Introducing GARIBALDI | Adam’s Jam (jazz, rock, blues) 8.00pm Abington Street KING BILLY | Rock Karaoke Jazz Guildhall Courtyard WED 13th JUNE MALT SHOVEL | The Electric Experience (Masters of classic blues rock) KARMANA | Sandeep Raval and friends perform live. Vegan Restaurant FIDDLERS | Giants of Emery 9pm CHARLES BRADLAUGH | Jazz and Blues Night. GPQ and guests. Free Entry KING BILLY | Live Rock Band HEADLANDS | 13 Taylor’d Country (country music) THURS 14th JUNE PICTUREDROME | Rock‘n’Roll Tea Dance (live band) 2pm. Free Entry. Salsa Northampton Market Platform Estrellas Live Band. 7.30pm Vintage Fair & George Row Street Food THE BLACK PRINCE | Showcase of local acoustic talent. Featuring Kieron Farrow, Corrine Lucy and others. 7.30pm DECO | Scaramouche Jones (play) 7.30pm Classical & Choral GARIBALDI | Little Bit Boy (chiptune dance) 8.00pm, Sane (rock/electronica) Main Stage All Saints Church Piazza Town Centre 10.00pm FIDDLERS | Andy T Karaoke 9pm KING BILLY | Live Rock Band THE MAILCOACH | Open Mic Night PRINCESS ALEXANDRA | Ben and Andy unplugged 8.00pm ALBION BREWERY | Just Friends (jazz duo) 8.30pm. Free Entry CHARLES BRADLAUGH | Have Guitars Will Travel part one THE CHURCH RESTAURANT | Music from John Richardson and Kirsty FRI 15th JUNE Main Stage THE BLACK PRINCE | Showcase of best local Indie bands. Featuring Market Square Candidates, The Keepers, The Boffins and others. 7.30pm LAMPLIGHTER | Century City + support & DJ. 8.30pm. Free Entry KING BILLY | Dead Frequency 8.30pm FIDDLERS | DJ Lee Brown 9pm DECO | Scaramouche Jones (play) 9.30pm Northampton is an historic town in the heart of England GARIBALDI | DJ OP1 8.00pm. Bronze Nazareth Wutang Clan Associate surrounded by ancient parklands and stately homes, one (hip hop) hour from London. THE MAILCOACH | Silver Smith (rock covers band) THE ABINGTON | Spanky’s Karaoke Night CHARLES BRADLAUGH | Have Guitars Will Travel part two Main Stage kindly sponsored by SAT 16th JUNE MARKET SQUARE | University of Northampton perform Mozart’s Requiem (rock and pop version) 9pm Stage Times KING BILLY | Stone Garden 9pm Stage Time Artist Sponsored by THE LAB | Live band ALBION BREWERY | CAVE Greg Cave from TRADarrr (folk rock) 9pm. 12 noon JAZZ COLOSSUS Richardsons Events Free Entry THE BLACK PRINCE | SBD Promotions presents Mellor, Kilamojo, Veins 13.00pm THR3E Hadlands and Dizzy Age. £4.50 online or £6.00 on door 14.00pm EXTREMELY DAN Hadlands PICTUREDROME | Have Guitars…Will Travel. Several live bands from late THE VIRTUOSI GUS BRASS afternoon 15.00pm Refcomm BAND BARRETT’S SNOOKER CLUB | Soul Mo Funk (soul band) 8.30pm SPINNEY HILL HALL | Northampton Rising Stars 16.00pm THAT JOE PAYNE Mark Dunmore THE ROMANY | live band GARIBALDI | Blood Moon (acoustic, alternative, folk) 8.00pm 17.00pm GINGER PIG MacIntyre Hudson Usup Rise Solo (acid jazz, trip hop, funk) 9.00pm, Burrowing Bees 10.30pm, 18.00pm MYSTIC CREW Richard Greener Kinship (trip hop, electronica, jazz) 11.30pm 19.00pm PURE GENIUS Mary Halsey FORTH COMING EVENTS // SIXFIELDS ROCK FESTIVAL 21st-22nd July 20.00pm THE JETS Giles Fuchs TWINFEST 26th-29th July www.northamptonmusicfestival.co.uk www.northamptonmusicfestival.co.uk Jazz Classical & Choral Guildhall Courtyard All Saints Church Piazza Northampton has played host to more musicians from New Northamptonshire Music and Performance Arts Trust on the Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, than any other town or city in Kettering Road has 22,000 music students and 300 music the UK, outside of London. teachers. Jazz Stage Classical Stage kindly sponsored by kindly sponsored by Stage Times Stage Times Stage Time Artist Sponsored by Stage Time Artist Sponsored by 13.00pm THE COOL JAZZ COLLECTIVE Sol Central 12.30pm ZINGARESQUE (NMPAT) Albert Abbott Motors THE VIRTUOSI GUS BRASS 14.00pm GRUPO Kingsley Health & Beauty 13.15pm Jeffery West BAND 15.00pm KOMODO QUARTET Tony Farrow 14.15pm MUSICALITY First 4 Blinds 16.00pm IVOR JOHNSON Julia Beckett 15.15pm THE FRUTONES CHOIR Rotary Beckett 17.00pm ELEVATION QUINTET Sol Central 16.15pm NORTHAMPTON SINGS! Michael Eyton-Jones NORTHAMPTON MALE VOICE 18.00pm JAZZ COLOSSUS Far Heath Studios 17.15pm Bob Andrews CHOIR www.northamptonmusicfestival.co.uk www.northamptonmusicfestival.co.uk BBC Music Introducing The Platform Abington Street George Row BBC Music Introducing Stage. The Northampton University Stage. Northampton Music Festival proudly present BBC Music Introducing artists The Platform proudly presents a selection of its finest university musicians. from all over Northamptonshire. BBC Radio Northampton’s Lal Muttock will be Please come along and enjoy live performances and refreshments at the hosting live performances on Abington Street. beautifully renovated headquarters of the University of Northampton Students Union. It is open to all! Northampton Music Festival are delighted to welcome Performance times 12pm – 3pm the new Waterside Campus to the town centre. Interval Performance times 12pm – 7pm Northampton Ukulele Group and Friends // Performance times 3pm - 4pm Umbrella Fair Abington Street Arts and Music Festival on the Racecourse August 2018. Abington Street Stage kindly sponsored by Gallone’s Ice Cream The Umbrella Fair is Northampton’s arts and music community festival held every August on the Racecourse. Northampton Music Festival are delighted to be featuring such an exciting range of diverse and multi cultural performances on Abington Street. www.umbrellafair.org.uk Performance times 4pm – 7pm www.northamptonmusicfestival.co.uk ROCK ADVERT Big Thanks Sincere thanks to our festival Our sincere thanks to everyone over the past 11 years, too numerous to mention, who has helped us to create and develop this festival. Thank you to all our sponsors, supporters and volunteers, including those who have kindly sponsored the festival after this programme has gone to print! Thanks also to Jacky Davis who organised SPONSORS the many stalls on Market Square and David Jackson for his promotional work in the local press. We are delighted to have the University of Northampton involved with the festival and wish to express our appreciated for their artistic and marketing input. We thank the Northampton Beer Festival and Northampton Carnival for their help in promoting this festival and for sharing our vision of enhancing the profile of the town through music. We also thank our local music venues for what they do, week in and week out, and for their support of this year’s festival. Very special thanks to all of you out there for coming along and making this festival as special as it is! 2019…join us? If you would like to help us develop the festival next year then please contact us on [email protected] ‘Putting shoe town on the music map’ .