mo 6 Jul 2009 |

Yesterday at the last day of the
Maverick Festival
in Easton the Young Zulu Warriors Gospel Choir
received a startlingly fulsome welcome as they got on stage by
walking through the audience singing and trilling in that great
African way.
Maverick this year was again a wonderful,
incredibly easy going affair that
MUST
happen
again and let's hope that next year Suffolk Coastal
doesn't require the half
dozen security (and a dog!), they are totally inappropriate, the
only faux pas we saw was
Brigitte DeMeyer
asking the little girl in the front row whether she was four
when in fact she's five. The little girl was so annoyed
she refused to clap ... or it might have been embarrassment.
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su 5 Jul 2009 |

At
Maverick
yesterday Al Perkins
got a knocked down by a double decker driving sound from his
Telecaster, the Haley Sisters did a Kate Rusby (beautiful
voices/northern accents) in a roasting hot Tack Room,
Brigitte DeMeyer
was just brilliant B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T and everybody's favourite
drummer Brady Blade could make good vibeing an Olympic event. This is a gospel song but you can
dance to it - Al Perkins
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sa 4 Jul 2009
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At
the first night of Maverick we got to see cowboy hats, American
Drew Nelson enjoyably doing an American moody minor key thing
whilst not wearing shoes, Tasmanian Ange Boxall looking like a
slimmer Xena in that headband and with a tasty band, and Two
Fingers of Firewater who have got more confident, a bit rockier
and bit showbizier (nothing wrong with that, two people playing
one guitar and the brief appearance of
a trombone) since last year. Decent beers, musical
instrument stall and an easy atmosphere mean we can't wait for
tomorrow when hopefully we can get a signal from Orange to
update Twitter.

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th 2 Jul 2009 |
The
2009 Maverick
Festival starts tomorrow
and our cats are looking forward to the Hayley Sisters because
they sounded dead good on the wireless last year and to Alana
Levandoski because they've been practising her last name.
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th 21 May 2009 |
We're looking forward to Charlie Dore
and Hank Wangford at this year's
Maverick in Easton.
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mo 30 Mar 2009 |
Admittedly
more than a bit of a ways off
but Cajun quartet
The Magnolia Sisters are
playing
Norwich
Arts Centre 15 July. This
year
Maverick in
Easton is the
first weekend in July so maybe
they'll still be round for that? |
th 13 Nov 2008 |
As we very much hoped Paul Spencer is
planning another
Maverick Festival for Easton
next year. Can't wait!
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su 31 Aug 2008 |
Judging
by all the people who wanted to be photographed with
Devon Sproule after her
set she was undoubtedly the hit of
Maverick. Built in the same slight manner
as
Miss Olga
she has a rewardingly mobile face and everything is just so
straight forward, loved it. Concerns some of
Easton may have had about the festival surely have been
proved unfounded, the only disorder we saw were little boys
kidnapping empty plastic glasses to get the deposit back!
The festival HAS to happen again next year.
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sa 30 Aug 2008 |
This afternoon
we saw Ed Sheeran in the audience for BJ Cole's steel guitar
workshop, as we expected the Redlands Palomino Co. impressed, more
cowboy hats, more
steel guitars and now
beards ... but what were Ocean
West doing hidden away on the back of an old army truck? All
the band can sing but
Sarah Lucy Dole
has a voice right on the money. It's going to be crowded
(and hot) in the shed tonight for the top acts.
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Cowboy hats and
steel guitars last night at the Maverick
Festival and Devon Sproule tonight ... can't wait!
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fr 29 Aug 2008 |
Looking strangely familiar the
main stage is up at
Easton Farm Park for this
weekend's nearly sold out
Maverick Festival. Showtime starts at
seven this evening and ends with a mid-morning Gospel brunch on
the Sunday. Stephen Foster will be broadcasting live from
the Fest on Radio
Suffolk tomorrow morning,
Radio Cambridge is expected as is the Serbian correspondent
of the World Service (alt country is v big in Serbia apparently)
and BJ Cole will be
giving a pedal steel guitar workshop. It's just gotta be a
good 'un! |
tu 29 Jul 2008 |
You can schlep to
Halesworth to see
Geno Washington and the
Maverick Festival is back on at Easton Farm
Park but slimmed down to a thousand alt country enthusiasts. |
we 16 Jul 2008 |
August's planned Maverick
Festival has been refused a license at Easton
Farm Park by Suffolk Coastal District Council. |
th 17 Apr 2008 |
Apparently
Paul Spencer the promoter of the
Maverick Festival at Easton
Farm Park is talking about an audience of 5,000 for the three
days.
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sa 8 Mar 2008
 |
We've found a provisional bill for August's
altcountry-americana-newtradition festival at
Easton Farm Park. Three stages,
topping Sam Baker doing his only UK date, Special Ed & The
Shortbus seem to be a bluegrass cross between Madness and
Orkestra del Sol, and there's a good sprinkling of pedal
steel guitars including the
Redlands Palomino Company who despite coming
from a large town
near Chelmsford sound like the real thing. |
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we 27 Feb 2008 |
Strong rumours about a bluegrass
festival to be held on
Easton Farm Park at the end of August,
the weekend after the bank holiday ... |
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