SHREWKFEST
2022
WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE LAST FULL WEEKEND OF JULY 2022
FROM FRIDAY 29th TO SUNDAY
31st JULY 2022
at
Eastridge Farm, Habberley near Shrewsbury, England, UK. SY5 0TP
A limited number of tickets are still available until we reach max capacity
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as we can only have a set number of people on site
due to Licensing and Insurance reasons and we sold out last time ...
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We are very excited to announce that
our
Friday Night
headline act will
be the brilliant
PETER
MOSS
"THE PEOPLE'S
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Peter has been playing the ukulele since his 8th birthday.
After mastering the basics, Peter’s father introduced him to his
mentor, Ray Bernard, from whom he learned solo chord melody.
From that moment on, Peter became
focused on this style.
He was also influenced by the recordings of Roy Smeck from
the USA and this is evident in his
concert material.
Peter was the first person to perform
the William Tell Overture on ukulele at the wee age of 12,
winning a national competition against seasoned players! A proud
moment for his dad, for sure!
Peter spent 30 years exploring other
instruments as well and contributing to various recording
projects.
Returning exclusively to his first love,
around about 2013, his performance skills and his audience grew
exponentially!
He and his ukuleles toured
America
and Canada,
have been on BBC Radio and Television
and then in 2016-2019 he
engaged in a worldwide tour appearing at the Sunshine
Coast
Festival (twice),
Newcastleand
Melbourne ukulele festivals in
Australia, New Zealand,
and the infamous "Ukulele Festival of
Scotland”
(twice)
His concerts are engaging, many
facetted, including humorous as well as intense material.
Always one with his audience, he is at home on the stage.
His workshops are varied and always enjoyable for all levels of
experience. Some quotes:-
I’ve attended
several of Peter’s workshops and seen him perform numerous
times.
He’s really rather excellent and makes learning/playing such
fun.
I’d heartily recommend anyone to grab the chance to see him at a
festival or workshop! – Christine M
I’ve been on several of Peter’s fun
workshops and concerts. He is not only a really nice friendly
guy but also a superb teacher,
his lessons always well structured and supported with take home
materials, and if you haven’t heard Peter playing live in
concert
then you really must if you can. I’m sure he must be one of the
top performers in the world. No exaggeration. Oh and no I’m not
his dad or his agent.
Just a really good friend and that friendship began with the
ukulele. David B
I met Peter last
year at the ukulele retreat in the Forest
of Dean
and immediately felt I could learn and improve my playing from
his workshop and teaching.
One soon realises how much more a uke can give. His energy and
enthusiasm are infectious and his style of playing legendary.
Cherylene D-B.
In my humble opinion, after seeing you
in action in Florida where I live and in Italy at a ukefest,
your talent, teaching skills and sense of humour is the perfect
combination that would be a big hit at any venue. You rock!!!!
Audrey M.
Some examples of
Peter Performing live:-
https://youtu.be/j89MJzc_6N8
https://youtu.be/gcTohSOvLio
https://youtu.be/UQEJxyeL4aQ
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We
are also very excited to announce that our Saturday Night headline act
will be the amazing Opera-lele.
http://www.facebook.com/operalele
http://www.youtube.com/operalele
http://www.opera-lele.co.uk/
The award-winning Opera-lele has rapidly established
itself as one of the most innovative and exciting new acts in
the world.
Opera-lele is a unique comedy music act specializing in
performing music from opera and musical theatre accompanied by
the emotionally powerful yet understated twang of their
ukuleles!
Having
trained as singers at the Royal
College of Music and
Goldsmiths
College in London,
George Bartle and Amanda Harkett have
gone on individually to forge careers for themselves
as
entertainers of the highest calibre.
In 2016, Opera-lele burst onto the music scene with a
Main Stage festival performance.
The audience was stunned and
excited by what they saw and heard.
Opera-lele received a
standing ovation and were described by many as the hit of the
festival.
Since then, Opera-lele has been
collecting standing ovations at festivals, theatres, churches
and even castles across the UK and overseas.
They
have toured extensively around the
UK
with their critically acclaimed full-length theatre show 'Access
All Arias'
and were voted 'Breakthrough Ukulele
Artist' by the readers of UKE Magazine in 2017.
Some quotes:-
“Opera-lele brought the house down with their clever and
thoroughly entertaining show! Simply brilliant.”
Matthew Wetmore, director, Halesworth Arts Festival
“Opera-lele is like nothing you’ve seen before.
Brilliantly funny and supremely talented. Bravo!”
Camilla Hastings, The Queen’s Hall Theatre
"Audience members and artists alike actually begged for
them to return.
Opera-lele is truly one of the best acts in the
ukulele world."
Mary Agnes Krell, director, A Grand Northern
Ukulele Festival
"Vocal virtuosos Opera-lele stole the show for me with a
heartwarmingly funny
yet totally professional performance that
brought the house down."
Christine Turner, UKE Magazine
“A solid, brilliant, well rehearsed, well written, smart,
funny, charming, professional
and incredibly well performed
show.”
Mike Hind, International Ukulele Soloist.
Also appearing on Friday is the fantastic A.D. Cooke
Girls
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Wigan’s own ‘Northern girl’ A.D.
Cooke is a singer/songwriter and vocal coach.
During her career she has
performed with The Drifters,
Big Country, Edwin Star, Dr. Feelgood, The Sweet,
The Grumbleweeds, The Real Thing, and many famous comedians
including Peter Kay, Frank Carson,
Stan Boardman, Bernard Manning
and Billy Pierce,
to name but a few
Accompanying her with their
beautiful harmonies
are fellow band members:
Le-Anne Jones on mandolin and celtic whistle
and Netty Hunter on ukulele and melodica.
A.D.’s songs are about life, love,
fun and happy times,
with a bit of humour and cynicism thrown in for good measure!
She has released two original
music albums:
‘Northern Girl’ and ‘Flying’
A brand new album will be launched soon...
Her music is available on:
amazon, itunes, cd baby and spotify.
She regularly performs at music and ukulele festivals
in and around the UK.
For more info visit
www.adcooke.co.uk
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Returning by popular demand 'Not Quite Dead Yet'
will be keeping us all entertained and dancing until close of
play on Saturday night!
NQDY started in
2015 when 3 Old Punks from the
West Midlands
discovered they had ukuleles that they never played.
It started out as a bit of fun to entertain ourselves but has
now escalated somewhat!
We started playing just Punk songs but now just play songs we
like. We started practicing in a conservatory but grew pretty
quickly so ended up in the local pub.
We were joined by a friend who had a double bass, another friend
who played guitar and another friend of a friend turned up with
a saxophone and later an aerophone!
There are now about twenty people in the band (no-one is
actually sure how many) because if you turn up with a uke you’re
in!
We have now started to write our
own songs which we are hoping to record at the end of the year
and are gigging around the
West Midlands.
Punk and Ska are probably our main influences, but as more
people joined, more ideas for songs came too.
Not quite Dead Yet have been
described as “a tin of Punk Rock Sardines spilling onto the
stage”
Our main aim is still to
entertain ourselves - fortunately people seem to like us too!
Our motto is "This is not a Band it’s a Support Group!"
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can help
FOR ALL ENQUIRIES PLEASE PHONE
07596 794613
Here's our
Main Stage line-up for 2022 (there may be a few adjustments
but this should be pretty accurate)
Peter
Moss, Opera-Lele, A.D. Cooke Girls, The Hedge Inspectors, The Galloping
Alligators, Marc Gallagher,
Ma Machetes,
Ukulele Club Liverpool, Phillipa
Leigh, Hullabaloo, Only Ukes, Hamish Currie, Ukulele Fusion,
Only Ukes, The GadZukeys and The Koswecans will be making their
Shrewkfest debut in 2022
and we'll be
welcoming back
Twiddlers, Nick Hill, Charlie Beer, Ukulele Jukebox, 2Ukes, Matthew
Quilliam, Not Quite Dead Yet and Lightly Twned
FRIDAY 29th
MAIN STAGE
12:00 Meet &
Greet
13:00 Meet &
Greet
14:00 Meet &
Greet
14:30 Marc
Gallagher
15:30
Twiddlers
16:30 Nick
Hill
17:30 A.D.
COOKE
18:30 Charlie
Beer
19:30 Ukulele
Jukebox
20:30 PETER
MOSS
22:00 The
Koswecans
SATURDAY 30th
MAIN STAGE
11.30 The
Galloping Alligators
12.30
Phillipa Leigh
13:30 The Mad
Axe Murderers
14:30
GadZukeys
15:30 Ukulele
Club of Liverpool
16:30
Hullabaloo
17:30 2Ukes
18:30 The Ma
Machetes
19:30 Matthew
Quilliam
20:30
OPERA-LELE
22:00 NOT
QUITE DEAD YET
SUNDAY 31st
MAIN STAGE
11:30 Ukulele
Fusion
12:30 Only
Ukes
13:30 The
Hedge Inspectors
14:30 Lightly
Twned
15:30 Shropshire Ukulele Massive
16:30 GRAND
FINALE followed by "The Wind-Down" jam session
FOR ALL ENQUIRIES PLEASE PHONE 07596 794613
The
line-up on our second stage 'The Paddocks Marquee' is nearly complete:
Here's our (mostly) complete Paddocks
Stage line-up for 2022
(there may be a few adjustments
but this should be pretty accurate)
ABukuleles,
Pear Town Ukes, The Mayor Of Dorkshire, Sydney F Smith,
and
Just Us
(Recycled Teenagers)
will be making their
Shrewkfest debut in 2022
and we'll be
welcoming back
Cool And Uke, Shifnal Ukes,
Bridgnorth Ukulele Club, BruceAndUke, and High & Mighty
FRIDAY 29th
15.00 |
Sydney
F. Smith |
16:15 |
Available for jamming |
17.30 |
Available for jamming |
18.45 |
Cool
And Uke |
19.45 |
Available for jamming |
SATURDAY
30th
12:00 |
Bruce
And Uke |
13:15 |
High &
Mighty |
14:30 |
Pear
Town Ukes |
15:45 |
Shifnal Ukes |
17:00 |
Just Us
(Recycled Teenagers) |
18.00 |
Available for jamming |
SUNDAY 31st
12:00 |
The
Mayor Of Dorkshire |
13:15 |
Bridgnorth Ukulele Club |
14:30 |
AB
Ukulele Band |
15.30 |
Available for jamming |
(Paddocks Stage Marquee will be available for
Jamming/Busking when there is no act performing)
WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING
FOR SPONSORS - email us on
info@shroprock.co.uk if you
can help
FOR ALL ENQUIRIES PLEASE PHONE
07596 794613
Here's some photos from Shrewkfest 2019
(loads more photos on our face book page
here)
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