What a Sunday next week at the Festival

Audlem Online continues its day by day preview of next weekend's Audlem Arts & Music Festival by looking at next Sunday's offerings. After concentrating on the Public Hall and the pubs for the Friday and Saturday, there's an even wider choice of venues on Sunday for your enjoyment. Blues Alley gets underway with Audlem's own local singer/song writers, the Duffy Boys playing at 1.00pm. It's the perfect opportunity to lie back on the grass outside the Church and listen to the music from across the road in the legendary Blues Alley. Next on, at 2.30pm, is Tim Disney and Donny Johnson, who have been very popular at the Festival over the last few years.

Down the road, on the open-air stage outside the Methodist Church, Mad Dog, one of the wildest, bluest and talented bands on the circuit is performing at 3.30pm. This is not to be missed! They are followed at 5.00pm by Heavy Weather playing a varied set of heavy blues including many of Jim Kirkpatrick's own numbers from his recent album.

The Day Star Theatre takes to the stage outside the Shroppie Fly at 4.00pm – this talented theatre group is always popular while later inside the Shroppie, it's the ever popular 'With Bob On Our Side', a respected Dylan tribute band playing acoustic numbers and cranked up electric rock at 9.00pm.

The Lord Combermere on Sunday features Tom Doughty, an acoustic slide guitarist making his Audlem Festival debut at 6.00pm while at 7.30pm, Tim Disney & Donny Johnson, fresh from their Blues Alley performance, will also be great entertainment at the Combermere. They opened up for Slack Alice in February in Audlem and are soon off to all the major blues festivals. The Combermere has as its third act of the day Twin Frets, two North West guitar maestros with the excellent vocals of Vernon Fuller.

And if that selection isn't enough, the St James' School Choir & Band is playing in St James Church at 7.30pm. This is the real future of Audlem's musical heritage and the Festival is proud to play host to them. There's sure to be many proud parents, grandparents, friends and, we hope, many others supporting them.

Sunday at the Audlem Festival is going to be quite a day.

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