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SOUTHSEA FOLK & ROOTS FESTIVAL is as usual, being held on on South Parade Pier, Southsea, over the August Bank Holiday - Friday 28th- Monday 31st August. We can now confirm three of the four main headline acts for the evening events... FRIDAY night's headliners are COLVIN QUARMBY. SATURDAY night's headliner is still to be confirmed, but we're keeping our fingers crossed for a great artiste who should confirm any day now. Watch this space! SUNDAY night's headliners are THE BAD SHEPHERDS. MONDAY night's headliners ( blues night) are MEMO GONZALEZ & THE BLUESCASTERS. Most of these artistes will be kown to festival go-ers-, but maybe not THE BAD SHEPHERDS - YET!!!! THE BAD SHEPHERDS are a superstar band playing punk songs in a folk style.. The members are... ADRIAN EDMONDSON (Vocals, ‘thrash mandolin’) Ade is best known as a comedian in The Young Ones, Bottom, and The Comic Strip Presents. Though he’s no stranger to the music world having played the Monsters of Rock and Reading Festivals with Bad News, the Hootenanny with Jools Holland, Hyde Park with The Who, and he’s toured with The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band. He’s also had a No 1 single with Cliff Richard! And as a director he made lots of music videos in the 80’s for the likes of The Pogues, Squeeze, Elvis Costello and 10,000 Maniacs. MAARTIN ALLCOCK (Twelve string guitar, bass, vocals) Maartin is a multi-instrumentalist originally from Manche ster, and is best known for playing guitar with Fairport Convention from ’85 to ’96, and for playing keyboards in Jethro Tull for four years. Maart has played on over 200 albums for people as diverse as Robert Plant, Cat Stevens, Beverley Craven, Judith Durham, Ralph McTell and Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Iwan! Besides the Bad Shepherds, Maart also currently plays for Swarb’s Lazarus and Beth Nielsen Chapman. TROY DONOCKLEY (Uillean pipes, cittern, whistles, vocals) Troy has built up a formidable reputation as both a Composer/Arranger/ Musician/Performer and as a leading virtuoso of the Uilleann Pipes. He’s released three critically acclaimed solo albums, is a member of Iona, and also finds time to record and tour with the likes of Maddy Prior (he has co-produced four albums), Barbara Dickson (produced two albums) Maire Brennan (Clannad), Midge Ure, Nightwish, Lesley Garrett , Roy Harper, Status Quo, Alan Stivell, Del Amitri and many more… ANDY DINAN (Fiddle) Andy won the All-Ireland Fiddle Championship… twice. He’s best known for playing with Toss the Feathers and Mike McGoldrick, but he’s also supported Dervish, Lunasa, Capercaillie and solo artists Martin Hayes and Liz Carroll. He recently performed at the Armagh Pipers Club Festival with Mike and Ian Fletcher with a new project involving Portugese, Brazilian and Irish music. MARK WOOLLEY (Bodhran, darabuka, cahon, whistles) Mark has played percussion and whistles for many years with Dan Plews, Saul Rose and Guy Flet cher as part of English folk band Dansaul. He’s also shared stage and studio time with the likes of Jon Boden, Keith Hancock, The Family Mahone and Stefan Hannigan. He currently also plays with Full House. Though a brilliant player, the real reason he was invited to join the Bad Shepherds was because of his surname - ‘Woolley’. (Our very own Shep Woolley is compering the Festival- so this should cause confusion!) More details on http://www.thebadshepherds.com -and check out www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWNitW01x0 Tickets on sale on the Festival website - www.southseafolkfestival.co.uk soon! Please be quick, especially for THE BAD SHEPHERDS - this is expected to sell out very quickly.... Cheers! John Roberts