Audlem Festival countdown

It's just over a week to the Audlem Festival, one of the most popular events of the village year. We hear that music fans are travelling to Audlem from all over the country.

Here's a foretaste of what's on offer in the first two days. It then gets even busier as we get into the Bank Holiday weekend building up to Carnival on Monday.

All eyes will be on the weather next week as the Festival will be all the better if the sun is shining and it's glorious late-May weather! The early signs from the longish-range forecasts are promising.

Thursday, 27th May[9:00pm – D&G
The Bridge Inn]
Flight505 bass player Al Dean, and keyboard player John Gunstone play some nicely arranged blues classics from the Big Blue House back catalogue.

[9:00pm – Duffey Boys
Lord Combermere]
Audlem's own will be helping to launch the festival with their own original songs and of course their own take on other people's songs. From Marley to Morrisey to The Jam to The Beatles and much much more. And a special guest!

Friday, 28th May[7:00pm – Audlem Saint James School Band
Audlem St James Church]
Audlem Saint James School Band will be showing their talents at the Church led by Karen Vaughan.

[8:00pm – Megan Lee
The Bridge Inn]
Beautiful young singer, with a maturity of voice far greater than her years. Singing blues, the shows and the hits, accompanied on acoustic guitar by Lee Bowen.

[9:00pm – Dave Nettleton
Lord Combermere]
Versatile musician, singer songwriter, at the cutting edge of nu-folk, following in the footsteps of Mumford and sons, Noah and the whale, and Johnny Flynn.

[9:30pm – Whiskeyhead
Shroppie Fly]
Whiskeyhead are a Stoke-on-Trent based blues band with a passion for blues from the 1950's, 60's and 70's distilled and performed in their own way. www.whiskeyhead.com

[9:30pm – Roydan Styles & Jason Johnston
The Bridge Inn]

Solo sets from Mancunian electro acoustic popsters Roydan Styles and Jason Johnston, both teaming up at the end for a touch of madness. Roydan has been compared to the likes of Roy Harper with a touch of Zappa madness, while Jason is an accomplished singer/songwriter in the vein of Damien Rice.

Check out the details by clicking on to the Audlem Festival website – there's a link just under the photo.

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