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Back at last!!!

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We are delighted to announce that Castle Bytham Midsummer Festival is returning this year, on Saturday & Sunday 18 & 19th June. Bythams Music is once again involved, providing a diverse and exciting programme of music for all tastes. More details below.

There will also, of course, be a feast of fun for all the family throughout the weekend, with a host of other attractions including Saturday’s 5k Chase trail run, open village garage sales, and guided walks; on Sunday the famous bustling Streetmarket will be further enlivened by entertainer Bill Brookman‘s fun and games, not forgetting the Dog Show and Duck Race!

Other highlights of both days are the Real Ale and Gin Bars, delicious BBQ and veggie food options, and exciting flypasts by historic aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. (See the Festival’s own website for full details.)

A full programme of music

Acts appearing on Saturday 18 June will include The Box of Frogs Djembe Band, Mark Stevens, The Loungers, Richard Durrant, The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, The Smokestack Blues Band, Idle Hands, Uninvited Guests and Groove Cartell

On Sunday 19 June we once again showcase some of our local talent with performances by, among others, Corby Glen Dance Academy, The Ruth Dutton Singers, The Stringlers, Chloe Lorentzen, Figure of Eight and The Undefined

For fuller details, band biogs, social media links etc, click here

Bythams Music and Castle Bytham Midsummer Festival look forward to welcoming you back to St Martins Meadow, Castle Bytham, for a superb line-up of musical talent. Not forgetting all kinds of fun for all the family throughout the weekend!

See you there!

@midsummerfestival.co.uk

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2017 Midsummer Festival line-up announced

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CASTLE BYTHAM
MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL
17 & 18 JUNE 2017
MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENTS

Bythams Music is delighted to announce the first bands and performers booked for this year’s festival. Even bigger and better than ever, this musical and artistic feast is all part of the wider weekend Midsummer Festival programme.

Saturday June 17: 1.30pm – 11pm

To start the festival weekend we have a range of excellent local bands and solo artistes playing on the main Meadow Stage and also the Green (acoustic) stage at St Martin’s Field. Some you may have seen before, which is always great, but in true serendipitous spirit, there will be others who you won’t have heard of but are guaranteed to fall in love with….

_MG_5867_edit_LowResOn the Marquee stage:
The Tin Pigeons (left),
Uninvited Guests,
Jon Rogers’ Linesmen,
Will Purdue Band,
Los Cojones

_MG_5482_edit_LowResOn the Green stage:
Oakleas Rise,
Diamond Dac and Cap Gordy,
CJ Hatt,
David Lacey and Pembroke Tenneson (left)

Sunday June 18: 10.00am – 5.00pm

Screen Shot 2015-05-11 at 13.41.29On the Marquee Stage:
Rutland Big Band,
Ruby Doos,
Bythams School,
Swinstead Dance Academy

 

On the Green stage:
Sophie Hurst
and more acts to be announced.

We’ve got you covered!
And don’t forget, we now have our huge marquee, which means that bands and audience can all be under cover if, heaven forbid, it should rain! And if it is boiling hot (fingers crossed!) then we can all be in the shade. Either way, everyone wins!

Living history
Away from the main meadow site, and in keeping with the weekend’s medieval theme (primarily on Sunday), we will also have a wonderful array of historical re-enactors, including an alchemist, a bodger, touring theatre, a magician, archery, falconry, a coracle demonstration, lots of children’s activities and parade – and our very own knight in shining armour.

Hurdy gurdyAppropriate musical accompaniment will be by Tourdion, who will perform in the streets, entertaining visitors to the village’s ever-popular fair and street market on Sunday. In the village hall and two pubs – the Castle Inn and Fox and Hounds – the Lincolnshire Poachers will be performing. In the church, Village Voices, a local choir, will be singing their interpretations of medieval songs and music.

Watch this space!
Further bands and performers are still to be announced, so watch this space. Further details about the bands and the line-up will be in our special souvenir programme, which will be available just before the Festival. All timings are subject to change.

Can you help?
We are always looking for folks to come and help us put on the festival, so if you have a few hours spare before or over the weekend, do come and join in the fun.

Rutland Radio LogoBythams Music is very grateful to Rutland Radio for promoting this year’s music programme.

The Castle Bytham Midsummer Festival 2017 is being supported by the Big Lottery Fund through its Celebrate! programme:

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A superb weekend!

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The Festival arena from the hill
The Festival arena from the hill

Well, that’s it for another year! The Castle Bytham Midsummer Festival was bigger and better than ever. The weather was kind to us (having been dreadful earlier in the week) and we got the site set up in the dry.

Speaking of dry, the Music and Beer Festival on Saturday went really well, selling out all of the guest beers and cider as well as almost every other drop of liquid that could be squeezed out of the village!

Sunday, fair day, was a beautiful day. There was a constant stream of visitors, many of whom lingered to sit in the warm sunshine and listen to the excellent range of music as it alternated between our two stages on St Martins’ Field.

We also managed to fit in a very last-minute late-morning concert at St James’ Church, by special request. Our provision of such a special venue at very short notice was much appreciated by the performers (a group of students from The Purcell School) and their mixed programme of classical music and sultry jazz was rapturously received by the audience.

A wide variety of new and well-established musical acts performed over the weekend. It was great to welcome back several favourite old friends again, some with new or expanded line-ups, as well as see and hear performers who hadn’t played the Bythams before.

We made loads of good contacts and we’re sure we’ll be hearing great things from many of the talented newcomers, some whose skill and stage presence belied their youth. We look forward to welcoming them – and you – back in future. See you next year!

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Exciting late addition

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We have a very exciting late addition to our music programme for Castle Bytham Midsummer Festival this Sunday. We are delighted to be able to welcome IMPULSE, an International Outreach Training programme for 16–18 year olds at The Purcell School, Britain’s oldest specialist music school.

IMPULSE - The Lincolnshire Team
IMPULSE – The Lincolnshire Team

The Lincolnshire Team, led by Sam, the runner-up in Young Drummer of the Year, include dazzling classical musicians who have performed in London venues such as the Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms), Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall, and the fabulous rising stars ‘The Delegates’, a Jazz/Funk/Soul band whose lead singer Alice is an International Jazz Festival participant.

IMPULSE’s Lincolnshire Team will perform
in concert at St James’s Church, Castle Bytham, 11am Sunday 19 June (timing t.b.c.)

As with the rest of the festival, admission is free of charge (though the church is always very grateful for donations!)

This project is supported by Lincolnshire Music Education Hub led by the award-winning Lincolnshire Music Service, funded by the Department for Education through Arts Council England. (The Hub unites around 22 organisations to achieve the highest-quality music opportunities for children and young people across Lincolnshire.)

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preview our Midsummer lineup

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Following the success of 2015, Bythams Music is now pleased to announce the first bands and performers for this year’s Midsummer festival in what promises to be a real musical feast!

Saturday June 18   1.00pm – 11pm

To start the festival week-end we have some brilliant local bands onstage in St Martin’s Field, Castle Bytham… some of these you may already have seen before, which is always great, but in true serendipitous spirit, there are others of whom you have never heard, but then you fall in love with…

On the Main stage

Lexie Green Band, The Fedz, Bianca and the Top Cats, Originals Band, Uninvited Guests…

On the Acoustic stage

Irene Rae, Robert King, Lil’ Ian Goodsman, Guitarmanjan…

Sunday June 19   11.00am – 5.00pm

On the day of the long-established Castle Bytham Midsummer Fair the music continues on both of our stages in St Martin’s Field. The acts confirmed so far include…

On the Main stage

Rutland Big Band, The Tin Pigeons, Pennyless,
Bythams School, Swinstead Dance Academy…

On the Acoustic stage

Pembroke Tenneson, HMS Welland…

And don’t forget we now have our huge marquee, which means that bands and audience can all be under cover if, heaven forbid, it should rain! And if it is boiling hot, as we hope, then we can all be in the shade. Either way, everyone wins!

Line-ups and timings are subject to change. Look out for further details about the bands here and on our Facebook page. Detailed timings and band write-ups will appear in our special souvenir programme, which will be available just before the Festival.

We are always looking for folks to come and help us put on the festival, so if you have a few hours spare before or over the week-end, do come and join in the fun.

Patrick Candler
Chairman, Bythams Music
07876 806646