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BBC News
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
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The Longest Johns to headline Bristol Harbour Festival 2025
Folk band The Longest Johns will be the main act at their home city's biggest festival this band, who became famous for their viral video of 'Wellerman', a 150 year-old sea shanty, during the "Shanty Tok" craze of 2021, will headline the Bristol Harbour festival, which will run from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 July and is one of the country's largest free cultural Longest Johns will headline the Harbour View stage on the Sunday night after returning from a tour of North America and Europe. The free festival, founded more than 50 years ago, will also feature a large food market and multiple stages where many performers from the city will play live or stage theatre City Council leader Tony Dyer said: "The Bristol Harbour Festival is a true celebration of the city - its creativity, diversity, and rich musical talent."It's fantastic to see Bristol artists like The Longest Johns making a global impact and then bringing that success back home to share with festival audiences."
BBC News
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Towersey Festival organisers announce Found Festival line-up
The organisers behind one of the UK's longest-running independent festivals, which shut down last year, have announced the line-up for an all-new final Towersey Festival, which started in Oxfordshire 60 years ago, took place in first Found Festival will take place at the Claydon Estate, Buckingham, from 22 to 24 Mary Hodson said her team had a "deep-seated passion for curating unforgettable experiences", and had "inherited the art of bringing people together through music, culture and community". The 2,000-capacity event is focussing on Americana, folk, country, roots, blues, and world music inaugural festival includes Elles Bailey, The Longest Johns, Talisk, Breabach, and the London Afrobeat will also have a "comment and comedy" line-up featuring Angela Barnes, Robin Ince, David Eagle, and John Hegley. Co-director Joe Heap said: "Found Festival is about participation and discovery. "Our music programme is about head-turners, not headliners, and supports grassroots music that we know people are going to love but are yet to discover."We've kept the site purposely small so it's the perfect fit for families or those scared of going to bigger festivals, making it comfortable to explore the abundance of cultural activities on offer." You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
