Next Saturday at the Festival

Next Saturday promises to be a great day at the Audlem Music & Arts Festival.

The programme has a full three pages of activity covers pretty well every genre of music, poetry and the first day of the Art exhibition.

The venues are the Scout & Guide Hall, Number Eleven Cheshire Street, Audlem Wharf and Audlem Mill, the Shroppie Fly, Lord Combermere and the Bridge Inn, plus Poets Corner outside the Methodist Church and the Art Exhibition at The Methodist Church Hall.

The music programme includes:

• Back Row, performing up at the Scout & Guide Hall – they have performed pretty well every year at the Festival
• Bickerton Youth, a gathering of young rural musicians from South Cheshire, at Number Eleven Cheshire Street
• Loud Mouth Women at the Wharf and Mill Shop, a cappella group and always Festival favourites
• Michelle Martin, singer songwriter at Number Eleven Cheshire Street
• Arms & Hearts, the venture of Steve Millar on the open air stage at the Shroppie Fly
• New Moon Fever, starring Billy Gibbons, at The Lord Combermere outdoor stage, and likely to be packed out for local character and favourite Billy
• The GC's at the Bridge Inn outdoor stage, a professional band from the Midlands
• 32.Red at the Shroppie Fly at 2.30pm, a new outfit taking venues by storm
• Garron Frith has toured with everyone and he's now in Audlem at The Lord C
• Chloe Hawes from Manchester is at Number Eleven Cheshire Street
• Oli Ng Band with a new line up is at the Bridge inn at 3.30pm and always popular
• Papa Funk at the Shroppie Fly are a groovy soul band and some of the hottest talent in the North West
• Last of the Dogs at The Lord C are a 3-piece rock band, a return to Audlem Festival
• USBs play at the Bridge Inn at 5.30pm playing vintage surf songs
• Russell Morgan plays at The Lord C at 7.00pm, a marriage of traditional acoustic folk, blues and soul
• La Mode are at the Bridge Inn from 7.30pm and are an Indie/Alternative rock band
• Flatlands & Garage Flowers at the Shroppie Fly are a folk band from Shropshire with a second EP due out shortly
• Jack & Kirsty Marshall are local favourites and perform at The Lord C from 9.00pm
• Sons of Clogger are a class act, a Festival favourite and play at the Bridge Inn at 9.30pm
• Heavy Weather, great Audlem favourites with Jim Kirkpatrick on at the Shroppie Fly at 10.00pm – what a way to round off the day.

One of this year's Festival features is a Great Day of Glorious Voices at St James' Church with Choral Music from 12noon until the evening on Saturday 28th May. The choral day features:

• The Cheshire Guitar Ensemble
• Stapeley Broad Lane School
• Loud Mouth Women
• The Funky Community Choir
• Nantwich Young Voices Choir
• Nantwich Voices
• and finishing with a 7.30pm concert by Audlem Voices.

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