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The House of Fairy Tales presents the Hoedown Stage

Sat 11 – Sun 12 September 2010 / 12 noon - 8.30pm

Hoedown Stage @ Oxo Tower Wharf

Photo: Nigel Bewley

Saturday 11 September

The Magpie's Nest presents A Field Trip in Folk

Under the banner of 'New Folk, Old Folk, No Folk', BBC Folk Club 2010 award-winners The Magpie's Nest takes us on a specimen hunt, cataloguing our way through time, space and sound, gathering the finest articles of melody and modality! Indexing up a pickle shop's-worth of folk music fashions from the sacred to the profane, the sackcloth to the spandex, the atavistic to the knicker elastic and the vernacular to the avuncular. Bring nets, cassettes, straw hats and the extended family for a right old forage.

12pm Manifesto DJs Alberto & Todd Hart

1pm Dogan Mehmet Anglo-Turkish gypsy-punk

2pm Uiscedwr British contemporary folk trio

3pm Sam Lee and the Gillie Boys English folk with
a hint of 70’s kraut-rock, disco and bluegrass

4pm Cath and Phil Tyler American balladry

5pm Jigjaw all-singing, all-dancing quartet

6pm Princes in the Tower Baroque folk rock

6.30pm Perunika Bulgarian acappella group

7pm Walsh and Pound banjo and harmonica wizards

7.40pm Ustad Haji Ameer Khan & The Khan Brothers
traditional Qawaali

Sunday 12 September

Swamp Rock presents A Musical Gumbo

A special menu of Meaty, Beaty Jambalaya from Louisiana, Hot and Spicy Chilli from the Deep South, Eels and Mash from the badlands of Essex, Sweet Buskers' Jam from Old London Town, Soulful Chicken Soup and Latkes from Eastern Europe, with a pinch of this and a dash of that. A delicious fun day of world music and dance by the Oxo Tower.

12pm Ice Cold Idiots

12.30pm Alonim Israeli Dancers Spanish-style and Yemenite
dance, with the Southgate Belly Dancers

1pm Severed Limb rockabilly/skiffle

2pm DJs Flying Home and Lil' Queenie

2.30pm Hopkele Klezmer ceilidh with caller Ilana Cravitz

3.30pm DJs Flying Home and Lil' Queenie

3.50pm East Of Ealing eclectic fiddle-driven global mix

4.45pm DJs Flying Home and Lil' Queenie

5.05pm Kremlinaires Soviet Swing and Bolshevik Boogie!

6.15pm DJs Flying Home and Lil' Queenie

6.30pm Suzie Wheller Zydeco dance workshop

7.15pm Elvis Fontenot & The Sugarbees
European Zydeco band of the year 2006 & 2009

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Last 2 years I was at home one weekend feeling terribly lonely and therefore went for a stroll along the river thames and stumbled onto the cajun stage at the festival - it was the best time of my life my lonliness turned into an intoxication of excitment and adrenalin, thanks to festival providers. The music and dance was familiar to me and with the free cajun and zydeco workshop it was heaven however the festival did not feature cajun in 2009 I had heard, so I did not venture to the festival at all.
This dance is not very well known as jive and the other dances so it is a lovely discovery to loads of people and creats a fabuous atmosphere. I urge anyone who has not done this dance to be there at least enjoy the soulful live band.

By Evash on Mon 28 June 2010

Hi
In my view its a fantastic festival - introducing so much culture !! I adore Cajun and Zydeco music but its also a great opportunity to try out other dance forms and music. The craft sounds great too - in fact there is so much to get involved in and see it almost becomes a dilemma !! Thank you for all the talent involved and so much time and energy put into this wonderful festival and thank you to the sponsors.
Best wishes
Eileen

By eileen snee on Thu 2 September 2010

Try and catch the Ice Cold Idiots at noon on Sunday on the Hoedown Stage.
ICI are 3, incredibly talented thirteen year olds playing a mix of their own material and classic rock.
Over the summer they have performed much talked about sets at Latitude,Port Eliot and Camp Bestival,earning themselves a top Times review.
Don’t miss them…...

By andy on Mon 6 September 2010