Alnwick Music Festival goes Virtual

The organisers of the Alnwick Music Festival are unable to run the festival as normal this year due to the Pandemic and the banning of Mass Gatherings. 

However, you can still enjoy the festival virtually. It will be live streaming on their Facebook page over the weekend 7th-9th August with some great performers.

Festival Facebook

Festival Website

Fender Release New Additions to It’s Player Series

Fender Release New Additions to It’s Player Series

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) has announced that it has released new, highly anticipated additions to its Player Series line of electric guitars and basses. 

The Series now features reimagined Mustang®, Duo-Sonic™ Duo Sonic™ HS, Mustang® 90, and Mustang® PJ Bass models in 10 colours new to the Player Series, including Firemist Gold, Desert Sand, Aged Natural and Burgundy Mist Metallic. 

Available through local retailers and on Fender.com beginning today, each delivers the classic look, comfort and signature Fender sound that has helped shape popular music for over 74 years.

https://shop.fender.com/en-GB/start

Watch Joe Bonamassa & Eric Clapton - "Further On Up The Road" Live at The Royal Albert Hall

Joe Bonamassa & Eric Clapton - "Further On Up The Road" Live at The Royal Albert Hall

A space exploration fan, jazz artist Gregory Porter to sing for NASA launch

A space exploration fan, jazz artist Gregory Porter to sing for NASA launch

 

(Reuters) - Jazz artist Gregory Porter, whose new single “Concorde” is an ode to space exploration, is set to perform on Thursday as part of a ceremony marking the launch of NASA’s next generation rover that will search for signs of habitable conditions on Mars.

The Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter is scheduled to sing the Ray Charles version of “America The Beautiful” during the U.S. space agency’s broadcast of the countdown to the launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Porter said he will perform from his living room in Bakersfield, California because of the coronavirus pandemic. His record label said Porter was invited after NASA officials heard “Concorde.”

“I wrote the song when I was on an airplane thinking about the idea of ascension, both in the body but in the mind as well. Flying into the stratosphere,” Porter told Reuters. “And so, anyway, NASA caught wind of it and they were interested... in partnering in the release of the song and the release of the video.”

In the “Concorde” music video, Porter is dressed as an astronaut and appears opposite his young son, Demyan.

“When I’m floating around in the galaxy, hanging out with the stars, the sweetest thing to do is to come back down, to drop down to and to be on the soil and to be with your loved ones. And that’s what the song is about,” Porter said.

https://www.reuters.com/video/?videoId=OVCOVBSKD&jwsource=cl

Small Music Venues in England get £2.2m Emergency Tax Payer Funding

The BBC have reported that up to 150 small music venues in England will share £2.25m

emergency government funding intended stop them going to the wall after four months with no gigs.

It is the first slice of a £1.57bn arts relief fund to be allocated and follows warnings that many venues are at risk.

The Music Venues Trust welcomed the funding as "a short-term fix".

Earlier this month, 1,500 artists from Liam Gallagher and Dua Lipa to Sir Paul McCartney signed an open letter calling for support for the live music scene.

If 150 venues are helped, they would receive an average of £15,000 each. Some grants could be bigger, up to £80,000.

The MVT, which represents small venues, said the money was "very welcome and desperately needed as we wait to hear how the recently announced £1.57bn rescue package for the arts will be administered and distributed".

Chief executive Mark Davyd added: "This interim solution will provide a short-term fix for those venues identified as being in crisis but we urgently need information and guidance on when and how venues can access the larger fund, which is so vital to safeguarding their longer term futures."

Lincoln Drill Hall Gig Guide Facebook Group

Trah Lah!

There is now a Lincoln Drill Hall Gig Guide Facebook Group which, if you already haven’t joined you are very welcome so to do. 

Lincolmshire based welcome to directly share any videos or images of their act and, share notice of gigs at whatever Lincolnshire area venue they may be taking place. 

Check the group out at www.facebook.com/groups/DrillHallGigGuide

Keep Smiling and Stay Safe

R.I.P. Peter Green

Fleetwood Mac co-founder and influential blues rock guitarist Peter Green has died aged 73.

Solicitors acting on behalf of his family said in a statement: 

"It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep.

"A further statement will be provided in the coming days."

Green, from Bethnal Green in east London, formed Fleetwood Mac with drummer Mick Fleetwood in 1967.

They came together after Green's stint filling in for Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Green and Fleetwood then convinced John McVie to join the band as bass guitarist, in part by naming the band Fleetwood Mac.

He wrote the instantly recognisable instrumental track Albatross, which remains the band's only number one hit, plus two other early hits, Black Magic Woman and Oh Well. And it was under Green's direction that they produced their first three albums.

he band's debut album was released in 1968. Simply called Fleetwood Mac, but also known as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, it gained widespread acclaim and reached number four in the charts.

Dion Dimucci’s New Album ‘Blues With Friends’

Dion Dimucci’s New Album ‘Blues With Friends’

What a great album and what a great line up which goes to show what a legend Dion is in themusic business. The very last of the 50’s teenage heartthrobs, Dion gets it on with some of the greatest music legends around.

“I needed to round up the best guitarists and musicians alive and pick them from every generation, every variation of blues,” the singer explains. And he’s done just that. From Joe Bonamassa’s superb slide on opener Blues Comin’ On and Van Morrison’s vocals on I Got Nothin’

Just check out the track listing and be amazed…

01	Blues Comin' On	Feat Joe Bonamassa
02	Kickin' Child	Feat Joe Menza
03	Uptown Number 7	Feat Brian Setzer
04	Can't Over Again	Feat Jeff Beck
05	My Baby Loves To Boogie	Feat John Hammond
06	I Got Nothin'	Feat Van Morrison & Joe Louis Walker
07	Stumbling Blues	Feat Jimmy & Jerry Vivino
08	Bam Bang Boom	Feat Billy Gibbons
09	I Got The Cure	Feat Sonny Landreth
10	Song For Sam Cooke (Here In America)	Feat Paul Simon
11	What If I Told You	Feat Samantha Fish
12	Told You Once In August	Feat John Hammond & Rory Block
13	Way Down (I Won't Cry No More)	Feat Stevie Van Zandt
14	Hymn To Him	Feat Patti Scialfa & Bruce Springsteen

 

Here are Dion and Joe Bonamassa feeling Blues Comin’ On.

www.diondimucci.com

Sunday 2nd August: Iron Horse RanchHouse, Market Deeping, Riverside Party

Sunday 2nd August: Iron Horse RanchHouse, 

Market Deeping, Riverside Party

1pm - 3pm Frankly My Dear

3.30pm – 5.30pm: Last Minute Brigade

6pm – 8pm: Let There B/DC

 £5 per person entry (advanced booking)

£7.50 on the door (first come first serve as it is safe to do so)

 Due to the covid guidance we are required to manage crowds. When you book tickets we will allocate you a table number and arrival time (from 12 noon). The table will then be yours as long as you would like to stay. There is no obligation to buy food. 50% of door entry will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Please note this gig will be outside. If the weather takes a turn we will be unable to move it inside. All tables will be booked outside and guests are asked to follow the social distancing guidelines we will put in place.

TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS CALL 01778 346952 

 www.ironhorseranchhouse.co.uk

#LetTheMusicPlay

#LetTheMusicPlay