There are not many singers whose intense performances can evoke a proposal of marriage but that's just what happened to singer-songwriter Tom Baxter, when he played a gig in Ireland. This year the folk singer returns to his Cornish roots to play for us at Port Eliot and we can't wait to see what happens…
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Fisherman’s Friends stormed into the public conscience earlier this year when they signed a million pound record deal with Universal Music after being discovered playing in their local pub in Port Isaac, Cornwall, by record producer, Rupert Christie, while he was on holiday.
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Mercury Prize-winning Talvin Singh is an accomplished tabla player, electronic musician, producer and DJ with a unique sound that fuses classical Indian music with drum and bass. Don’t miss the rare opportunity to watch him improvising live on the tabla to a screening of the epic ambient documentary Forest of Bliss in the Round Room, while Geoff Dyer reads from his latest novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi.
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Ralfe Band, whose music has been described as "an inspired set of star-gazing psychedelia" (Metro), has released two studio albums - Swords (2005) and Attic Thieves (2008). Their latest offering is the soundtrack to The Mighty Boosh director Paul King’s latest feature film, Bunny and The Bull (2009), which they’ll be playing live to a screening of the film in the Caught by The River tent.
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Having experienced the extreme highs and lows of the Britpop era with his Mercury-nominated band The Auteurs, Luke Haines is certainly well qualified to write a controversial memoir about the period. In his book Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall (2009), Luke labels Oasis a ‘comedy band’ and The Verve ‘useless prog rockers’, but is also refreshingly honest and insightful when discussing his own band’s troubles and fall from the limelight.
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Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan's critically praised debut album The End Of History received a Mercury nomination in 2007. His follow-up, The Shadow of an Empire was released this February to great acclaim, confirming his reputation as both maverick genius and one of the most talented contemporary singer-songwriters around, likened to Bob Dylan by some.
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Hailing from very different corners of the earth, Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara are both successful artists in their own right. Justin is a renowned British producer and rock guitarist who plays in Robert Plant’s band; Juldeh is a Gambian a master of the riti (or nyanyeru), which he learnt from his blind father. Their collaboration, fusing roots music, rock and Afro beats to delicious effect, has received great acclaim in recent years.
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Sam Carter is a singer-songwriter and finger-style guitarist whose insightful lyrics and playing style belie his young years. Winner of the Horizon Award for best newcomer at the 2010 BBC Folk Awards, Sam will be playing some of his haunting acoustic numbers for us this summer.
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With influences from the Beach Boys to Jules Verne and "just about everything we've seen, heard, touched and tasted", The Leisure Society's sound is as eclectic as the range of instruments they play, including ukulele, flute, glockenspiel and thumb piano. Their luscious melodies will be seeing out our lazy Sunday afternoon at Caught By The River this year.
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With the crackle of fireworks and the thrill of the fairground, former frontman of Kinky Machine and Rialto, Louis Eliot returns to Port Eliot, with his brilliant band The Embers – glowing red hot and threatening to burn the barn roof off…
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