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Hi Everyone Welcome to the new look Ullapool Guitar
Festival Web Site Ullapool Guitar Festival 10th, 11th and 12th of October 2008
This
is just an update to let you know that the final line up for this
year’s festival is as follows:- Andy
Fairweather-Lowe with Dave Bronze, Peter
Rowan, Stefan Grossman, Bob Brozman, Clive Carroll, Don Ross
and Andy McKee, Hugh
Burns, Gareth Pearson, Johnny Dickinson, John Goldie, Nigel
Clark, Allan
Neave, Adam Bulley and Chas Mackenzie, Jon Buck, Iain
Forbes, Paul
Buckley, John Smith, Tristan Seume and Swing
Guitars. Concert
programme Friday night start
1900hrs Hugh
Burns Gareth Pearson New
Album Launch with John Goldie Saturday afternoon start
1300hrs Adam
Bulley and Chas Mackenzie Don
Ross and Andy McKee Saturday Evening start
1900hrs Stefan Grossman Clive
Carroll Andy
Fairweather-Lowe with Dave
Bronze Sunday Afternoon start
1300hrs Nigel
Clark Allan
Neave Bob
Brozman Sunday Evening start
1900hrs Jon
Buck Johnny Dickinson Peter
Rowan Artists listed as performing but not mentioned in the
concert programme will be appearing in either workshops, which will
take place in the Macphail Centre ( details to follow) or the
Festival Club which will take place in the Arch Inn, West Shore
Street, Ullapool, club starts at midnight on each night of the
Festival. Weekend tickets are still available at £90 each which
allows entry to all concerts and the Festival
club. Individual concert tickets are now on sale at £20 each,
please make cheques payable to the Ullapool Guitar Festival and send
them to me at West House, West Argyle Street, Ullapool, Ross-shire
IV26 2TY Please note that if you purchase individual concert tickets, entry to the Festival club will cost £5 per person, entry to the Festival Club will be restricted to persons wearing a valid wristband from that day’s concert/s. Adrian Legg has asked me to
let everyone know that he is playing on Monday,
August 18, 2008 Edinburgh,
UK Fringe
Festival, Acoustic Music Centre @ St. Bride's, 0131 346
1405 My contact details are on the web site, please
remember to hit your refresh button if you go on to the site. I will
be posting some new pictures and guitar related videos on the
gallery page as soon as I get a chance. Any problems or questions just give me a
shout. Best regards Richard
Update 5th of August Ullapool Guitar Festival 10th-12th October 2008
Hi everyone Apologies for the recent roaring silence but I’m afraid a few personal things came up and I had to focus on them for a while.
Ok a general roundup; Festival weekend tickets are now on sale at a cost of £90 per person which entitles the individual to entry to all 5 concerts (in the Macphail Centre) and three Festival clubs (at The Arch Inn) To make stewarding easier all concerts will require the ticket holder to wear/display a Festival wristband. Depending on availability, some individual concert tickets will go on sale in due course. Concert audience capacity is restricted to 250 seats, so if you want to see some of these guys up close, then don’t hang about and get your weekend tickets bought ASAP. Line up details can be seen on www.ullapoolguitarfestival.com The Festival clubs will take place in The Arch Inn, 11 West Shore Street, Ullapool, Ross-shire, IV26 2UR tel 01854 612454. (So if you don’t want to stagger too far at the end of the night. I know they have some rooms left and would prefer to sell them to people attending the Festival, that way there are no worries about noise etc). The concert room in the Arch is quite small and intimate and so entry will be restricted to persons wearing appropriately coloured Festival wristbands. Festival weekend ticket holders- free entry to the Festival Clubs. Persons attending individual concerts will have to pay a nominal charge at the door, to gain entry to the Festival Club. Payment for weekend tickets Please make cheques payable to the Ullapool Guitar Festival and send them to me at West House, West Argyle Street , Ullapool, Ross shire IV26 2TY . I am sorry but we can’t accept payment by credit card. Programme Some of the artists are still sorting out itineraries and so the actual concert running orders will be posted on the web site as soon as they are finalised. Workshops Will cost adults £10 per head per workshop attended. School age children free. Workshop contents details to follow. But I can tell you that John Smith will be running a song writing workshop. Also that Tristan Seume is taking some time off from his teaching commitments at The Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford (ACM) to help with these years workshops.
Accommodation list. The Arch Inn tel 01854 612454 The Caledonian Hotel 01854 612306 The Ceilidh Place tel 01854 612103 The Royal Hotel tel 01854 612181 The Argyll Hotel tel 01854 612422 The Ferry Boat Inn 01854 612366 Ladysmith house 01854 613286 Check out www.ullapool.co.uk or www.ullapool.com for more info on accommodation. 10th March 2008 Just to let everyone know that Bob Brozman(resophonic guitar specialist)and Mr Pete Rowan will be appearing at the 2008 Ullapool Guitar Festival. Please check these guys out on google as they are both wonderful musicians!!!So along with Stefan Grossman,Don Ross and Andy McKee, Clive Carroll, Gareth Pearson,Johnny Dickinson, John Goldie along with the welcome return of Hugh Burns it looks like we have a wonderful line up in the making. Ullapool Guitar Festival have also acquired a new sponsor in the shape of P3 Music who have launched a new web site www.italkguitar.com so check out this link; it has some great stuff on there!!! Still in negotiations about the Festival Club but we have a fall back and no matter what happens it will take place. If you need specific information just email me. Best regards Richard
UPDATE 29th January 2008 I hope you have all recovered from the holidays and new year festivities. We ran a New Year Ceilidh in the Ullapool Village hall on the 31st and raised quite a bit of money for the Festival!!! It all helps. A huge thank you to all the helpers, your time and effort was much appreciated. Anyway this is just to confirm that there will be a Festival in 2008; dates the 10th, 11th and 12th of October.So please put those dates in your diary now!!! We have a new venue!! all concerts will take place in the very comfortable Macphail centre, there will be a bar and it has a very efficient air extractor system so we don't overheat!!!! I am still examining the options for the venue for the late night festival club but I will confirm that later. So far I have Stefan Grossman,Don Ross and Andy McKee (stick their names into google and have a look at some of the video clips they have on the internet, you won't be disappointed) Clive Carroll, Gareth Pearson, Johnny Dickinson and John Goldie are also confirmed along with the welcome return of Hugh Burns. I'm still working on my wish list and will confirm names as and when I get artists booked. Best regards Richard Lindsay
Well that's it over for another year!!! I hope those who attended had a great time!!! apart from a couple of members of the public who took a little bit of the shine off the event for me, I had a great time and fealt that musically this one was probably one of the best Festivals so far. Many many thanks to all the volunteers who assisted throughout the Festival. Also a big thanks to Limelight for wonderful sound and vision. I'm also pleased to report that Rebecca Fjelle has offered to assist us in finding a sponsor for the Ullapool Guitar Festival., she has just launched a new company doing this kind of work and she has some rather tasty photos taken during the festival on her own web site www.arterial-media.co.uk which is well worth checking out. I'm also pleased to tell you that a Mr Antony Bowring has gifted £500 towards the cost of next years festival if we manage to raise enough money to put the event on. So many thanks to him for that financial support!!! So if it all goes to plan the Ullapool Festival will take place 10th,11th and 12th of October 2008.
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