Lancaster's Second Annual Music Festival, Friday Oct. 8th through Sunday Oct.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 13, 2010 -- Lancaster is one of Britain's best kept musical secrets. This is not an idle boast
but an observation.
The city has a highly diverse world class secular and non-secular music scene
supported by a large number of music locations (over 40), music organisations
(over 20) and musicians (well over 300 listed acts in the district) and has lain
relatively dormant and unknown for too long. This festival aims to put Lancaster
firmly on the music map both here and abroad. And in a most entertaining way.

Lancaster’s local music scene is bejewelled with superb acts both original and
cover, young and old. From award winning 60’s themed band Heroes of She, to
Barnbox Records prodigious staple of young bands (neo-folk from Ottersgear,
avant garde from Adventures of Loki) and Livewire Promotion’s rousing throng of
punk acts from near and far (Guilty Pleasures, A48) mixing in with more
traditional sounds from blues pianist Boogie Bill Roberts, the Latin sounds of
nationally touring Lava, trad jazz veterans The Sun Street Stompers, ripping rock
covers from Tin Pan Alley, international touring mod punk boogaloo from the

Convulsions, West Gallery choral music from Gladly Solemn to name but a very
few.
Local acts will be joined by internationally renowned performers such as award
winning modern jazz outfit from Tampa Bay, Florida Level 10, the genre breaking
classical work of the ThreeFifty Duo from New York, haunting avant-garde jazz
pop from Vienna’s Marina Zettl & Thomas Mauerhofer, Spanish flavoured rock
from Daze of Dawn and from Australia folk diva Marisa Yeaman.
The industry side of things will be taken up with open panel discussions held at
the Storey courtesy of Creative Lancashire’s Sound Bytes initiative. Expect some

big names in the music world sharing their expertise on the challenges of
performing live and also touring internationally. There will be a double decker bus
courtesy of Skiddle for musicians to be video interviewed and uploaded directly to
the web.
The festival reflects the city's diversity and is driven by locations, organisations
and the musicians who strive and survive here. The festival is run non-for-profit
by Lancaster's own music agency CME Artist Services and relies on local support,
not grants, so the event can be run each year, on its own terms and without fear
of funding running out.

Innumerable restaurants and cafes, a large number of real ale pubs (Mitchells of
Lancaster, George & Dragon, Penny Bank and Merchants ale festivals and trails),
plenty of night clubs (10), two theatres, and lots of accommodation to suit every
taste and every pocket. Farmer's markets, open air and covered. Transition Town
initiatives. Two universities, a castle, cathedral, canal, salmon river, a 30 mile
bay overlooked by the mountains of the Lake District, England's largest folly
situated on a landscaped Victorian park overlooking the whole lot. And the whole

lost only 3 miles from the beach. These are the reasons Lancaster is a superbly
unique festival location.

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