Jersey Folklore Festival

Jersey Folklore Festival
Jersey Folklore Festival
Genre	Folk music, rock, comedy
Dates	30 June, 1 July 2012 (weekend)
Location(s)	Jersey, Channel Islands
Years active	2012 "Folklore festival announced by Jersey Live organisers". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2013-03-21.</ref>
Website	http://www.folklorejersey.org.uk/

Jersey Folklore Festival is a music festival held in Saint Helier, Jersey. The venue is People's Park, with a possible capacity of 5,000 people, and two stages. A main stage situated inside a large marquee, and the smaller Agapanthus Stage which is named after the Agapanthus flowers which grow in the park.

History[]

The plan for this festival was announced after a different annual Jersey folk music festival called Grassroots came to an end, due to financial issues.^[1]^[2]

The 2013 festival was cancelled due to a lack of funding from Jersey's Tourism Development Fund and timing of permission to hold the event in St Peter.^[3]

2012[]

The 2012 event took place on 30 June to 1 July. 2,000 people attended over the weekend.^[4] The following acts performed on two stages;

Main Stage[]

Van Morrison Saturday night headliner^[5]
Ray Davies Sunday night headline act^[6]
Joan Armatrading^[7]
Nouvelle Vague
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Rodriguez
Badly Drawn Boy^[8]
Finley Quaye
Wanda Jackson
Jake Bugg
Lloyd Yates

Agapanthus Stage[]

John Cooper Clarke
John Shuttleworth
Edward Aczel
Stanley Forbes
The Recks
Ashiki
Rick Jones (musician)
Frankie Davies (musician)
Badlabecques (folk band performing in Jèrriais)^[9]
BBC Radio Jersey Live Show^[10]

References[]

^ "Folklore festival announced by Jersey Live organisers". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "Jersey Grassroots festival organisers leave £114k debts". Bbc.co.uk. 2011-10-12. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "'No backing' blamed for festival failure « This Is Jersey". Thisisjersey.com. 2013-03-16. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "Jersey's first Folklore festival attracts 2,000 people". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-07-02. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "Jersey Folklore festival confirms Van Morrison". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "Ray Davies confirmed for Jersey Folklore Festival". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "Joan Armatrading confirmed for new Jersey folk festival". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "Jersey Folklore festival confirms three new acts". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2012-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "BBC Introducing is live from two Jersey festivals". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

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[autogenerated1-1] "Folklore festival announced by Jersey Live organisers". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

[2] "Jersey Grassroots festival organisers leave £114k debts". Bbc.co.uk. 2011-10-12. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

[3] "'No backing' blamed for festival failure « This Is Jersey". Thisisjersey.com. 2013-03-16. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

[4] "Jersey's first Folklore festival attracts 2,000 people". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-07-02. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

[5] "Jersey Folklore festival confirms Van Morrison". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

[6] "Ray Davies confirmed for Jersey Folklore Festival". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

[7] "Joan Armatrading confirmed for new Jersey folk festival". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

[8] "Jersey Folklore festival confirms three new acts". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

[9] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2012-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[10] "BBC Introducing is live from two Jersey festivals". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

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