May 22 - 23 - 24
May Spring Bank Holiday sees the return of THE BLUES FESTIVAL, now called Wild Boar Blues
Tickets Now on Sale
£20 Weekend
£5 Friday
£10 Saturday
£10 Sunday
£20 Camping Fri Sat Sun
or £10 for 1 night
Camping Spaces are limited so early booking is advised.
children under 16 free.
Day Tickets do not include camping
FRIDAY 22 The Big Band.... 17 piece Orchestra and full support at £5 only!
GLENN MILLER , DUKE ELLINGTON, COUNT BASEY and the inevitable BLUES BROTHERS. Areally good night out starting at 8pm... All evening in the Miners hall, 200 yards from Green valley site, where campers n marquees will be still going til late.
SATURDAY 23rd £10 All day through the UPPER CWMTWRCH village, and all day/evening at The Green Valley
Featuring.... the majestic 7 piece SWAMPGRASS, GLASS - MAHARAJA BLUES – RUMBLESTRUTTERS - BLUES TRAIN – ASTRO band - A Blues Talk from ANDREW BASLEY – JELLY ROLL JONES – Psychedelic blues from London based FUNKE & The Two TONE BABY - DELTA BREAKS and much more.
SUNDAY 24th May £15 ALL DAY / NIGHT Featuring.... SICKNOTE STEVE - blistering guitar riffs from LUKE DOHERTY band – SMOKE STACK LIGHTENING - The ELECTRIC REVELATORS – JOE KELLY and GUY MAILE are amongst the many bands
Swampgrass formed in January 2013 when 5 blues lovers got together to play a brand of blues that borrowed from several styles – swing, funk, country, bluegrass – while keeping things up-tempo with a dancing beat. A Swampgrass show generally starts at pace and maintains dancefloor intensity until the end. The occasional slow song finds its way in to the set – usually a grip and grind blues or soul scorcher – but the aim is to always entertain. |
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Maharaja Blues is the culmination of the flow of three talented rivers, Richard, Jonathan and Satinder as they merge with the great Mississippi, fusing the sound of the beating tabla with the euphoric slide blues and the fire of the harmonica. During 2011 the duo started to perform more frequently together and their sound was greatly received. In 2014 Jonathan became the third tributary to flow into the blues water of this musical river. |
Funke & The 2 Tone Baby - Kent-based mechanical alt-blues band Funke and the Two Tone Baby is the pseudonym of multi-instrumentalist Dan Turnbull. Described as creating ‘new, exciting and innovative music’ (R2 Magazine), in two years Funke has gone from pub gigs in Margate to performing 300+ shows and festivals across the UK and Europe. Combining effects pedals, beatboxing and grooving bass lines with traditional instrumentation, powerful vocals and relentless energy that provides tracks with a ‘distinctive and contemporary twist’ (Artree Magazine) and gets people ‘grooving like an apoplectic orang-utan’ (Sound of Confusion) Funke has appeared on Absolute Radio and has played as main support for Bob Log III, Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs, Treetop Flyers, Hazel O’Connor, Babar Luck, 3 Daft Monkeys, Eddie Spaghetti and TV Smith, alongside performing as a headline act at venues and festival stages throughout the UK. |
Andrew Bazeley - Keeping the old blues alive!
Delta Blues, Country blues, Bottleneck Blues.. whatever you want to call it: Andrew Bazeley is your man for playing it, singing it, talking about it, writing about it, teaching it. |
Sicknote Steve recreates the authentic sound of the original hobo bluesman. No technical trickery here -the authentic guitar paying skills and vocals of Sicknote Steve invoke the atmosphere of the Mississippi Delta as he slides and stomps his way through the Seasick songbook. |
Luke Doherty – Was born on 29th March 1994, in Newport, Gwent. He had an interest in music at a very young age. Although no one in his family play an instrument, he was determined to learn to play something, He instantly became hooked on blues, intently watching any blues musicians he could find on TV or DVD.
Luke met Eric Clapton when he was 9yrs old at the John Mayell 7Oth Birthday concert in Liverpool. |
Blues Train are based in and around darkest Buxton, high up in the Peak District of Derbyshire, their music is Rhythm n' Blues, just like it should be, no frills, straight between the eyes, low down, dirty and dangerous, with hints of those great British Blues bands of the 60's like the early Stones, Animals, Pirates, Downliners Sect and more recently Dr. Feelgood. They've been on the road for 25 yrs, this line-up for 12yrs. Many gigs under the belts of these Old Rockers, they've gigged at pubs, Blues clubs, Blues festivals all over Britain, some of these being, Colne, Burnley, Newark, Diggle, Dundee, Orkney, Golden Lion-Wales, Welsh Blues Festival and Tenby and almost the Himalayan Blues Festival!!!!!! They always give 100%, |
Smokestack Lightnin. South Wales Newest & most exciting twin lead guitar Electric Blues Band, playing mixture of classic blues rock covers and own material. Covers from BB King, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepher, Ollie Brown. |
The Electric Revelators have been going since 2004, we were originally called The Revelators but there were a couple of bands with the same name - so we added Electric! Simon Gregory and myself have been a constant in the band since 2007 and travelled and performed across the UK and Portugal! Since the start we have dedicated our sound to Delta & Chicago blues and toured with Jerry Donahue who joined The Electric Revelators in 2011 for The Robert Johnson Song Book Tour and who is still involved with us! |
The Delta Breaks are a covers band based in Cardiff, South Wales. Formed in 2013, they play iconic rock, soul and blues favourites. |
The Rumblestrutters are the authentic sound of the Prohibition era. The band vividly evoke the music of the 1920s and ‘30s, and have a reputation as one of the UK's premier roots bands, with highlights including stellar performances at Birmingham International Jazz Festival and Gloucester Blues Festival.
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Joe Kelly is a singer songwriter playing his own concoction of blues, folk and Americana. His songs are honest and raw and are laced with good hooks and soul soothing harmonica interludes.
It’s quite evident the works of Bob Dylan have taken a strong influence over the young twenty two year old from Newport.. |
Toriah Fontaine & Ric Rython - a Blues Jazz duo - vocals from the stunning Toriah Fontaine and piano from The Delta Breaks’s Ric Rython. Beautifully classic and fantastically powerful The former rail line RUNS FROM The Berrington hill Cwmtwrch to Cwmllynfell, the transformation over 5 years is amazing. All powered by solar and the real ale barn is made from the wood of the felled trees. An outdoor earth stage, huge big lodge tipi and Chinese marquees make this a delightful riverside walk as well as a camping site. Well worth a day out. We have 2 TAXI companies willing to do 8 seater return deals to the Site . |