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Bradford Roots Festival
A one-day, indoor Winter festival celebrating community spirit and joyful music
Banish your January blues with our one-day, indoor Winter get-together celebrating community spirit and joyful music. Packed with music, activities food, dancing and more, this is the ultimate feel-good festival that you just can’t miss.
Activities include:
- Five indoor performance stages with original folk, rock and acoustic music
- Open Mic slot (1.45pm -3pm) – please apply to take part here
- Poetry session hosted by Dawn Gorman
- Exploring Songwriting with Phil Cooper
- Wassail workshop followed by Children’s Parade leading into the foyer with morris dancing by Holt Morris
- Evening folk jam – The Transatlantic Sessions
- Family-friendly daytime with workshops, choirs, morris dancing, our big Wassail and children’s procession
- Creative zone with a craft session making folk-inspired wands and headbands between 11am – 3pm
- Little People Chill Zone & Nursing Area (11am – 3pm) – a quiet space for babies, toddlers and their grown-ups
- Food and drink from Meraki and Oak Oven Pizza
- Beer from Kettlesmith’s and cider from Honey’s
- A circus skills workshop from SASS Circus
- Ceilidh Workshops (2 x 40 mins workshops)
- Junk Percussion workshops (2 x 40 mins workshops)
- Mini Maker’s Market on the Mezzanine
- And much more!
Choose from an All Day ticket (11am – 10.30pm) or an Evening Session ticket (7pm – 10.30pm)
One free U12 ticket with every full paying adult day or evening session (£25 or £12)
The Transatlantic Sessions take place in the evening only.
Line Up Below. Please note programme is subject to change.
BAR STAGE
From 11.30am
M3G
Alex Maidment
Becky Lawrence
Jiggidy
Setondji
Sloe Jam
From 19:00
Adrian Long
Remy
The Sylvertones
JPQ Jon Pearce Quartet
MAIN STAGE
From 11.30am
Zone Club
Rock Choir
The Orchestra of Everything
Wassail Workshop with Clara Atkins (2.30pm) followed by a parade and morris dancing from Holt Morris. Children are welcome to join in the parade, which will start from the Creative Zone at 3pm.
Wiltshire Wailers
Aqaba
From 19:00
DG Solaris
Tariqa
Rivers of England
GOLDEN GUDGEON STAGE
From 11.30am
Terry Sheppard
Chris Yaan
Open Mic
Phil Cooper – Songwriting: Is It Witchcraft?
A Band named Brian
Poetry @ Roots
From 19:00
Visions of Dylan
Jackie and Felix Byrne
Edd Donovan and The Wandering Moles
WILD & WOOLLEY STAGE
From 11.30am
SASS Circus
Ceilidh Workshop (Two 40mins Workshops @ 12pm & 12.50pm)
Junk Percussion Workshop (Two 30mins Workshops @ 1.45pm & 2.30pm)
The Free Spirits
Kait Vox Quartet
Mighty Rooster
From 19:00
Butane Skies
Broccoli Boy
The Worried Men
TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS (in the Nestlé Room)
From 7pm
Brought to you by the people behind Frome’s regular folk jam, The aka Transatlantic Sessions in Frome’s Lamb and Fountain pub. A drop-in, improvised all-evening folk session in our Nestlé room where local musicians will play together. Bring an instrument if you want to join in.