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| Guildhall |  | Coffee Morning |  | The main event Show of Hands Steve Knightley and Phil Beer are widely acknowledged as the finest acoustic roots duo in England. Knightley, who writes most of their inspired material and Beer, a dazzling multi instrumentalist, have built up a huge following which has seen them sell out the Royal Albert Hall three times, headline major festivals from Glastonbury to WOMAD and playing all over the world, from Europe to America, Australia and India. Voted Best Live Act by the public at the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the jury is still out on just what kind of music they play. A genre defying mix of rock, roots, blues, country and trad, and often influenced by the music of other countries, it is played out on an array of instruments from slide guitar to fiddle, mandolin to South American cuatro. www.showofhands.co.uk | | White Lion |
Afternoon Concert 2-5 pm |  | Aspel Orchid is a singer-songwriter/artist. She mixes poetry, performance art, and antifolk-influenced songs written and played on both guitar and mountain dulcimer.
In electric settings she makes use of a loop pedal to layer her voice and instruments in order to produce soundscape backings for her songs, performance art and poetry.
In acoustic settings, she presents simpler, stripped-back versions of the above.
As well as her solo work, Aspel Orchid has played and performed as a member of Sleepwalk Something, and the Cambridge Free Improv Society, and often collaborates with Lycanthrope Oboe. www.myspace.com/aspelorchid |  | Mark Gwynne Jones Previously performing with such well known writers as John Cooper Clark, Mark Gwynne Jones fuses quick wit, dark humour, childhood memories and an unmistakable Northern accent to create spellbinding tales of plastic men, alien love, and cloned finger-eyes - his theatrical motions will mesmerise and dumbfound, and you will be left wondering what on earth just hit you. www.psychicbread.org/ |  | Bert Miller & The Animal Folk Totnes based Bert Miller formed a curious tribe of misfits with an unadulterated love for animals to create dark, eccentric and overall weird music about worms, rainbows and vermin. With the drum kit split between the band everyone can expect a bit of a stomp while Bert growls his words of wisdom like a man possessed. This band are not to be missed." |  | Catherine And The Owl - Praised for their eclectic and daring arrangements, Catherine And The Owl’s music is tainted with blood and melancholy, the songs are raw and filled with emotion –genuine, moving and often tainted with malice and desperation.
www.myspace.com/catherineandtheowl | | 5.30 pm |  | Eat The Rich Eat the Rich return to Bradninch with their loud, raucous and unashamed musical plundering of the best of roots topped up with original songs. Firmly part of the vibrant Devon music scene. Life served up in great music with dollops of passion. Feel it, live it - so come and see it! Subvert & Survive. www.lemonrock.com/eattherich | | 9 pm |  | Night Train This jazz quartet was formed by the well-known Torbay-based jazz saxophonist Brian Sage and the Exmouth-based pianist Paul Barnham two years ago. Drummer Jamie Smale and Torbay's popular bassist Nigel Pike helped complete the line up. Over the past two years, Night Train has performed extensively at jazz pubs, clubs and festivals, and tomorrow night sees the launch of the band's debut CD entitled The Journey. Their launch event was held at Michael Caines' Bar and Restaurant in Exeter. The new album features a mix of standards delivered in Night Train's distinctive style, plus ballads through to jazz funk and a couple of original tracks by Brian and Nigel. | | Castle | | | |  | Venezuela were formed 2 years ago and have been playing thought out the UK and Wales! At festivals, acoustic clubs, charity events and everywhere else in between, notably last year at Trowbridge festival and Farmageddon in the valleys of Wales. They write original material of edgy acoustic music, influenced strongly by world issues, touching lyrics and a belief in soulful songs. Venezuela are Bob Gallie and Martin Darlington. Bob is a regular player at the Acoustic club and gave an amazing performance at last year’s Festival and a very welcome supporter of the Festival and Bradninch events. |  | Julian Piper is an accomplished Blues slide guitarist, singer and raconteur, Julian has a unique music history that's seen him tour and record with American Blues masters Carey and Lurrie Bell, Eddie Kirkland, Lazy Lester, Phil Guy, Lowll Fulson and many more. In 2009 he appeared at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Club In Clarksdale Mississippi and broadcast live on the legendary King Biscuit Radio Show Helena Arkansas. |  | “Uncle Jam” have arisen like a Funk Zombie from the ashes of the “Harlem Trainspotters” – the now defunct Exeter band with the infamous reputation. The band has been shaking down party-goers since 1992 and has a wealth of funky experience in the world of entertainment. With their potent mix of self-written tunes interspersed with funk classics they will enrapture audiences with their true love of what they do. |  | Wind-up Lloyd are a four piece guitar band hailing from Bradninch. Songs about love, bitterness, self reflection and the real lives and times of us! Songs about everyone and songs about no-one. April 2009 saw Bryn return from Uni in Southampton for the Easter, which gave us the chance to record 3 new songs at the great 'Bunker' studio in Dunkeswell – their CD will be available very soon. | | | |  |
Thorvertones are veterans of innumerable bands, they first got together in 2007 in the picturesque Devon village of Thorverton. Since then, they've concentrated on helping people to party and have steadily built up a reputation for delivering a raucously good time wherever and whenever they play. They may not knock out all the tunes you'd expect to hear - but they'll play a lot of songs you know and love and didn't realize you needed to hear.
| | | | | Street Events | | | Street Theatre with - Bradninch Players Street theatre serving up tragedy, pathos and sex in unexpected but not unfamiliar forms. The organizers of the Sidmouth Festival have shown interest in Simon's Tytherleigh’s hilarious production of Romeo and Juliet which was one of the highlights of last year’s Bradninch Music Festival and the performers are hoping to get invited to perform this at Sidmouth. Following the success of The Red Barrows and Romeo and Juliet, there will be a similarly ‘off-the-wall’ production at this year’s music festival. As usual the content will be a closely guarded secret revealed only at 12 noon | | | Dance projects |  | Puppetree . Brian and Alison Davey have been performing with their puppets for over thirty years. They met at Art College and have built up a successful career with their beautifully crafted puppets ranging from exquisite marionettes to everyone’s favourite, Punch and Judy. Brian started performing with Punch and Judy shows for their three daughters, and soon local schools and organisations booked him for various events. Nowadays the puppeteers work together, performing at many venues, from fayres and fetes to big corporate occasions, entertaining all ages with fun-filled shows and a wide repertoire using an ever-changing puppet troupe of glove, rod and string puppets. They travel from their home near Lyme Regis to places all around the U.K and overseas. www.puppetree.co.uk | | St Disen's Hall |  | The Joyce Gang are an Anglo/Irish roots band based in England. They have established a fine reputation throughout the British Isles with their stirring live performances, excellent recordings and regular national and local airplay. They have taken audiences by storm at festivals from Sidmouth to Edinburgh and at venues from Derry to Stuttgart. The songs and tunes in their extensive repertoire are all self-penned and draw on a dizzying variety of styles from traditional irish to modern jazz, covering most musical genres in between, all blended to create the distinctive and uplifting sound that is unique to The Joyce Gang Also performing wil be some of the regular club acts | | St Disen's Church |  | The Summer Classical Concert The town’s own talented players present a programme of music from the 17th to the 20th century including Mozart, Chopin, Debussy and others, Local artists perform a varied concert of classical music. | 1 Millway 11 am - 5 pm | | | Caroline's Chill Zone Caroline will be running a stall with clothes, hand made wrist warmers, jewellary, star lanterns, handmade mirrors and more. There will be facepainting and hair braiding within the stall too.
Meghann Cross will be performing a fire spinning act throughout Saturday & Sunday in the garden, starting with ordinary non-fire poi outside the guildhall on Saturday at 12pm.
1 Millway will be a place to relax, drink tea, paint the kid's faces and marvel at a first class fire performer.
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