we seek to enhance the profile of northampton through music

We seek to enhance the profile of Northampton through music. Each and every performance in the Northampton Music Festival has been sponsored by a local music enthusiast or a local business which makes the festival what it is.

Thank you for your support of this year’s festival. If you have an interest in working with us on next year’s festival

please contact us on:

[email protected]

Festival Director : Graham Roberts

‘Putting shoe town on the music map’

NORTHAMPTON MUSIC 365

‘Showcasing and celebrating the outstanding music culture of our town and county’

Northampton Market

Festival Map

Classical & ChoralAll Saints Church Piazza

Vintage Fair &Street Food

PlatformGeorge Row

Mon - Sat Listing

MON 11th JUNEKING BILLY | Original Rock Band Night

TUES 12th JUNEGARIBALDI | Adam’s Jam (jazz, rock, blues) 8.00pmKING BILLY | Rock Karaoke

WED 13th JUNEMALT SHOVEL | The Electric Experience (Masters of classic blues rock) KARMANA | Sandeep Raval and friends perform live. Vegan RestaurantFIDDLERS | Giants of Emery 9pmCHARLES BRADLAUGH | Jazz and Blues Night. GPQ and guests. Free EntryKING BILLY | Live Rock BandHEADLANDS | 13 Taylor’d Country (country music)

THURS 14th JUNEPICTUREDROME | Rock‘n’Roll Tea Dance (live band) 2pm. Free Entry. Salsa Estrellas Live Band. 7.30pmTHE BLACK PRINCE | Showcase of local acoustic talent. Featuring Kieron Farrow, Corrine Lucy and others. 7.30pmDECO | Scaramouche Jones (play) 7.30pmGARIBALDI | Little Bit Boy (chiptune dance) 8.00pm, Sane (rock/electronica) 10.00pmFIDDLERS | Andy T Karaoke 9pmKING BILLY | Live Rock BandTHE MAILCOACH | Open Mic NightPRINCESS ALEXANDRA | Ben and Andy unplugged 8.00pmALBION BREWERY | Just Friends (jazz duo) 8.30pm. Free EntryCHARLES BRADLAUGH | Have Guitars Will Travel part oneTHE CHURCH RESTAURANT | Music from John Richardson and Kirsty

Main StageTown Centre

Abington Street

JazzGuildhall Courtyard

Umbrella &BBC Music Introducing

Main Stage

Stage Times

www.northamptonmusicfestival.co.uk

Northampton is an historic town in the heart of England surrounded by ancient parklands and stately homes, one

hour from London.

FRI 15th JUNETHE BLACK PRINCE | Showcase of best local Indie bands. Featuring Candidates, The Keepers, The Boffins and others. 7.30pmLAMPLIGHTER | Century City + support & DJ. 8.30pm. Free EntryKING BILLY | Dead Frequency 8.30pmFIDDLERS | DJ Lee Brown 9pmDECO | Scaramouche Jones (play) 9.30pmGARIBALDI | DJ OP1 8.00pm. Bronze Nazareth Wutang Clan Associate (hip hop)THE MAILCOACH | Silver Smith (rock covers band)THE ABINGTON | Spanky’s Karaoke NightCHARLES BRADLAUGH | Have Guitars Will Travel part two

SAT 16th JUNEMARKET SQUARE | University of Northampton perform Mozart’s Requiem (rock and pop version) 9pmKING BILLY | Stone Garden 9pmTHE LAB | Live bandALBION BREWERY | CAVE Greg Cave from TRADarrr (folk rock) 9pm. Free EntryTHE BLACK PRINCE | SBD Promotions presents Mellor, Kilamojo, Veins and Dizzy Age. £4.50 online or £6.00 on doorPICTUREDROME | Have Guitars…Will Travel. Several live bands from late afternoon BARRETT’S SNOOKER CLUB | Soul Mo Funk (soul band) 8.30pmSPINNEY HILL HALL | Northampton Rising StarsTHE ROMANY | live bandGARIBALDI | Blood Moon (acoustic, alternative, folk) 8.00pmUsup Rise Solo (acid jazz, trip hop, funk) 9.00pm, Burrowing Bees 10.30pm, Kinship (trip hop, electronica, jazz) 11.30pm


Stage Time Artist Sponsored by

12 noon JAZZ COLOSSUS Richardsons Events

13.00pm THR3E Hadlands

14.00pm EXTREMELY DAN Hadlands

15.00pmTHE VIRTUOSI GUS BRASS

BAND Refcomm

16.00pm THAT JOE PAYNE Mark Dunmore

17.00pm GINGER PIG MacIntyre Hudson

18.00pm MYSTIC CREW Richard Greener

19.00pm PURE GENIUS Mary Halsey

20.00pm THE JETS Giles Fuchs

Main Stagekindly sponsored by

FORTH COMING EVENTS // SIXFIELDS ROCK FESTIVAL 21st-22nd JulyTWINFEST 26th-29th July

Market Square


13.00pm THE COOL JAZZ COLLECTIVE Sol Central

14.00pm GRUPO Kingsley Health & Beauty

15.00pm KOMODO QUARTET Tony Farrow

16.00pm IVOR JOHNSON Julia Beckett

17.00pm ELEVATION QUINTET Sol Central

18.00pm JAZZ COLOSSUS Far Heath Studios

Stage Times


Jazz

Northampton has played host to more musicians from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, than any other town or city in

the UK, outside of London.

Jazz Stagekindly sponsored by

Classical & Choral


12.30pm ZINGARESQUE (NMPAT) Albert Abbott Motors

13.15pmTHE VIRTUOSI GUS BRASS

BANDJeffery West

14.15pm MUSICALITY First 4 Blinds

15.15pm THE FRUTONES CHOIR Rotary Beckett

16.15pm NORTHAMPTON SINGS! Michael Eyton-Jones

17.15pmNORTHAMPTON MALE VOICE

CHOIRBob Andrews

Stage Times


Northamptonshire Music and Performance Arts Trust on the Kettering Road has 22,000 music students and 300 music

teachers.

Classical Stagekindly sponsored by

Guildhall Courtyard All Saints Church Piazza

BBC Music Introducing Stage.

Northampton Music Festival proudly present BBC Music Introducing artists from all over Northamptonshire. BBC Radio Northampton’s Lal Muttock will be hosting live performances on Abington Street.

Performance times 12pm – 3pm

BBC Music IntroducingAbington Street

Arts and Music Festival on the Racecourse August 2018.

The Platform

The Northampton University Stage.

The Umbrella Fair is Northampton’s arts and music community festival held every August on the Racecourse. Northampton Music Festival are delighted to be featuring such an exciting range of diverse and multi cultural performances on Abington Street. www.umbrellafair.org.uk


The Platform proudly presents a selection of its finest university musicians. Please come along and enjoy live performances and refreshments at the beautifully renovated headquarters of the University of Northampton Students Union. It is open to all! Northampton Music Festival are delighted to welcome the new Waterside Campus to the town centre.


Umbrella FairAbington Street

George Row


Abington Street Stagekindly sponsored by

Gallone’s Ice Cream

IntervalNorthampton Ukulele Group and Friends // Performance times 3pm - 4pm

ROCK ADVERT

Big ThanksOur sincere thanks to everyone over the past 11 years, too numerous to mention, who has helped us to create and develop this festival. Thank you to all our sponsors, supporters and volunteers, including those who have kindly sponsored the festival after this programme has gone to print! Thanks also to Jacky Davis who organised the many stalls on Market Square and David Jackson for his promotional work in the local press.

We are delighted to have the University of Northampton involved with the festival and wish to express our appreciated for their artistic and marketing input. We thank the Northampton Beer Festival and Northampton Carnival for their help in promoting this festival and for sharing our vision of enhancing the profile of the town through music.

We also thank our local music venues for what they do, week in and week out, and for their support of this year’s festival. Very special thanks to all of you out there for coming along and making this festival as special as it is! 2019…join us?

If you would like to help us develop the festival next year then please contact us on [email protected]

‘Putting shoe town on the music map’

SPONSORSSincere thanks to our festival

we seek to enhance the profile of northampton through music

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