After 10 years as part of Royston Arts Festival it’s time for a change of focus for Royston MusicFest.
The old format is working less well now with a diminishing number of venues and consequently fewer deliberate visitors. So, this year the focus will be on other ways of providing music starting with an Opening Night Concert for Royston Arts Festival on Friday 19th September.
We are very excited to announce that both Tin Giants and Bird In The Belly have agreed to play at that concert. The former, a 6-piece band, are in some demand for folk festivals this year as news spreads of their brilliant instrumental and vocal virtuosity, whilst the latter, despite three critically acclaimed and wonderful albums are still a bit ‘under the radar’ at a national folk level, so now is a great time to catch them whilst you can.
Early bird tickets for this concert are now available at the stunningly low price of just £12 in the beautiful surrounds and amazing acoustic environment of Royston Parish Church. See poster at top right or below on mobiles. More information on Royston Arts Festival can be found HERE.
The Unicorn Folk website is a not-for-profit service for folk fans predominantly in the Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Essex & Herts region and UK folk musicians more generally and will be supporting the publicity for this concert. It carries on the tradition of the free Unicorn Magazine which had a 3,000 print run last distributed to folk clubs, libraries and other public outlets in 2020.
If you like music, of any kind, try listening to FILBY’S FOLK on Royston Radio on Sundays at 6pm. There is a surprisingly wide range of ‘music’ that now comes under the ‘folk’ umbrella and nearer the date of the arts festival the show will feature music from some of the artists taking part.
There may be other events as part of Royston MusicFest this year and if you are a local performer looking for a platform for your music then do get in touch and we will assess whether we can provide an opportunity of one sort or another for you. Contact: carlfilby@roystonmusicfest.uk.