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Musicport Festival 2015
Musicport 2015: Friday - Sunday October 16-18th. Opens 6pm on the Friday and ends 11pm Sunday in Whitby Pavilion, North Yorkshire, UK.
Established in 2000
to promote live music and music education in
Being held in the Pavilion at one of the UK’s most beautiful and charming seaside resorts of Whitby, North Yorkshire, with an abundance of quality places to eat, drink and stay, makes for a truly unique festival.
Musicport will also be hosting The Yorkshire Gig Guide Grassroots Awards on the Friday of the festival featuring several Yorkshire acts on the North Sea Stage.
Workshops, comedy and film programmes will be confirmed very soon.
2015 Acts appearing include
Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band
Fanfara Tirana meets Transglobal Underground
(Albania/UK) Varldens Band, (Sweden) Afrikan Boy, (Nigeria) Dub Colossus (Ethiopia), Terry Hall, Frigg (Finland) Tromboranga Salsa Orquesta (Spain), The Demon Barbers XL , Duke Special, Najmar Akhtar,(India/UK) The Kora Band (USA) The Hut People with Jess Morgan,
Cajun Roosters
Ben Rogers, Paul Armfield, Emma and The Professor, Richard De Soussa, Will McNicol And Luke Selby, A Firm Of Poets, Ribbon Road, Maalstroom (Netherlands), and Naomi Bedford & Paul Simmonds. Keith James (The Songs of Nick Drake), O'Hooley &Tidow, and Blue Rose Code.(Scotland), Ngawang Lodup,
Emily Portman Trio
Yussef Ahmed, Frumptarn Guggan Band with to name but a few.
“The festival has really changed my perspective on World Music; opening my eyes to the vast spectrum of musical acts the genre encompasses, and also how contemporary it has become. For a music festival that offers captivating music, exciting new cultural experiences… it looks like Musicport is the place to be”.
Yorkshire Coast Gigs
For more info please visit:
Website: http://www.musicportfestival.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MusicportFest
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Musicport/105231492841288