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Live Performance
Jazz Swing
The Daisy Bowlers are quirky and fun vintage band performing songs from the Charleston to Jive with 3 part vocal harmony, ukulele, double bass and guitar.
Everywhere The Daisy Bowlers perform people start to film them and take photos. They call their friends and hold the phone up so that they can hear. Something special happens with their natural banter, real wooden strung instruments who have stories of their own, sweet vocal harmonies, lyrics to make you laugh and cry and mellifluent voices that carry the tune on its way.
The Daisy Bowlers have brought this magic to weddings, anniversaries, birthday parties, pubs, restaurants and theatres. They are particularly well matched with a glass of Pimms or a nicely brewed cup of tea with a large slice of moist carrot cake. Bunting optional.
Rather than drifting towards becoming another commercially driven, ticketed event, the team of volunteer organisers has doggedly held fast to the original grass roots, access-for-all ethos, and so the festival has retained its unique, eclectic and idiosyncratic atmosphere.
Music has the power to make us all feel part of something bigger than ourselves, while nurturing a true sense of community and local pride. The pastoral, village fete atmosphere of the Library Gardens and the bustling, waterfront location of Old Leigh are both fundamental to the spirit of the weekend, and offer a natural, unpretentious welcome to visitors in their thousands.
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A century ago, Essex proved fertile ground for the first wave of folk song collectors like Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan-Williams, and perhaps some of this legacy persists in our local traditional music scene.
While Southend and the ‘Thames Delta’ are probably best known for the blues and pub-rock bands of the 60s and 70s, as well as today’s local heroes, it has always supported a flourishing folk and acoustic music scene and has in recent years seen poetry and storytelling take to the stages, along with traditional dance sides and a truly special procession.
The Leigh Folk Festival is fantastic, it’s free and it’s all our own. And what’s more we have more mud than Glastonbury… but only when the tide is out!
Location : Library Gardens (main stage)
Various Venues,
Leigh-on-Sea,
Essex,
England,
SS9 2.
