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This
year's Cropredy Festival will be a special event - it's 25
years since the first official festival was held in the village
of Cropredy near Banbury in Oxfordshire.
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| Thronging
crowds at Cropredy Festival 2002. |
Cropredy
Festival gathers people from all around the world for one of the
largest folk rock events in the UK. In fact, over 20,000 people
are expected to descend on Cropredy this year.
The
small Oxfordshire village has a population of 680. This often swells
to over 20,000 during the three day festival.
As
the festival site is located beside a river and a canal, many people
arrive by narrowboat and others camp in the surrounding fields.
See for here
for accommodation details and here for pub
details.
Where
do the bands perform?
The
concert field is the main field. The stage is at the bottom of the
field and around the edges of the field are the stalls.
On
the other side are the bar stalls where you can buy real ales served
in the open air.
Programme
for Cropredy:
Thursday
August 7, 2003
Click
on the bands' pictures to read their biograhies and background information.
| Time |
Performers |
Biogs |
| 16:30 |
Colvin
Quarmby |
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| 17:50 |
Meet
on the Ledge |
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| 19:10 |
Trevor
Burton Band |
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| 21:00 |
Lindisfarne |
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Friday
August 8, 2003
Compere
is Keith Donnelly
Headlining
is Procol Harum who will be playing music from their new CD, The
Wells on Fire. Also on the bill is The Bucket Boys with Tim Renwick
on guitar and singer/songwriter David Hughes.
Saturday
August 9, 2003
Compere
is Bob Fox
| Time |
Performers |
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| 12:30
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Richard
Digance |
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| 13:45 |
Al
Hodge & The Mechanics |
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| 15:00 |
The
Hush |
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| 16:35 |
Old
Blind Dogs |
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| 18:10 |
Albert
Lee |
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| 19:45 |
Dennis
Locorriere |
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| 21:00 |
Fairport
Convention with Dave Swarbrick and special guests
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Fairport
Convention will be playing for three hours. Special guest ex-Fairporter
Dave Swarbrick will be premiering his new CD Swarbrick Plays Swarbrick.
Fairport
will be joined by Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Maartin Allcock,
Beryl Marriott, Kevin Dempsey and Mike Burnham.
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