BLACK DEER FESTIVAL takes place from 25th - 27th June - Here's who YOU need to see....
The Black Deer Festival is an independent award winning Americana and Country Music Festival held at Eridge Park, Kent from 25 - 27 June 2021 and ties in with the Summer Solstice weekend which is on the same date.
The music will be scattered throughout Black Deer’s spectacular outdoor setting, with sounds ranging from unforgettable sets on the Main Stage to heavier blues rock at the Roadhouse Stage plus the best in Live Fire BBQ cooking and everything ‘Americana’.
The diverse lineup this year includes;
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Frank Turner is an English punk and folk singer-songwriter. He began his career as the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, then embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005. In the studio and during live performances, Turner is accompanied by his backing band, The Sleeping Souls, which consists of Ben Lloyd (guitar, mandolin), Tarrant Anderson (bass), Matt Nasir (piano, mandolin) and Callum Green (drums).
To date, Turner has released eight solo albums, four rarities compilation albums, one retrospective "best of" album, one split album and five EPs. Turner's eighth studio album, No Man's Land, was released on 16 August 2019.
Frank is a prolific live performer with over 2400 live shows under his belt, his shows are energetic, fun fuelled and a great way to let your hair down at a festival.
https://www.instagram.com/frankturner
https://www.facebook.com/frankturnermusic
Imelda May
Imelda May is an Irish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Although known primarily as a singer, she also plays the bodhrán, guitar, bass guitar and tambourine. Described as "a unique vocal talent," May is known for her musical style of rockabilly revival and has also been compared to female jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday
https://www.instagram.com/imeldaofficial
https://www.facebook.com/ImeldaMayOfficial
Foy Vance
Foy Vance is an Irish musician and singer-songwriter signed to Gingerbread Man Records.
Vance has toured as a support act to British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and his music has been featured on numerous TV shows. In August 2013 he released his second full-length album, Joy of Nothing, which was produced by Irish producer and arranger Michael Keeney and was met with critical praise, being called "a gorgeous collection of open, uplifting songs, which showcase [Vance's] magnificent songwriting skills."
In May 2016, his third studio album The Wild Swan, produced and mixed by Jacquire King, was released and it was announced that Vance would support Elton John on selected tour dates in June and Josh Groban in July and August.
https://www.instagram.com/foyvance
https://www.facebook.com/foyvancemusic
Jake Bugg
Jake Bugg is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. His self-titled debut album, Jake Bugg, some of which was co-written with songwriter Iain Archer, was released in October 2012 and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. His second album, Shangri La, was released in November 2013 and his third, largely self-produced album On My One, in June 2016.
His fourth album Hearts That Strain, a largely acoustic effort, produced by Dan Auerbach, was released in September 2017.
https://www.instagram.com/jakebugg/
https://www.facebook.com/jakebugguk
Van Morrison
Van Morrison OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. His professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, he rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria".
His solo career began in 1967, under the pop-hit orientated guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl".
Morrison has a reputation for being at once stubborn, idiosyncratic, and "sublime". His live performances have been described as "transcendental" and "inspired".
His albums have performed well in Ireland and the UK, with more than 40 hitting the UK top 40. Eighteen of his albums have reached the top 40 in the US, twelve of them between 1997 and 2017.
https://www.facebook.com/vanmorrisonofficial
https://www.instagram.com/vanmorrisonofficial/
Saving Grace ft Robert Plant and Suzi Dian
Robert Plant CBE is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin from the late 1960s to the end of the 1970s. He developed a compelling image as the charismatic rock-and-roll front man, similar to those of contemporaries such as Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Roger Daltrey of the Who, Jim Morrison of the Doors, and Freddie Mercury of Queen.
With his mane of long blond hair and powerful, bare-chested appearance, Plant helped to create the "god of rock and roll" or "rock god" archetype. Although Led Zeppelin dissolved in 1980, Plant occasionally collaborated with Jimmy Page on various projects in later years, including forming a short-lived supergroup with Page and Jeff Beck in 1984, called the Honeydrippers.
In 2019, Plant formed a low key acoustic band called Saving Grace and performed support slots for Fairport Convention and Seth Lakeman.
https://www.instagram.com/robertplantofficial.
https://www.facebook.com/robertplant
So there you go, there are your festival headliners, I suggest you go forth and find out about any of the other bands and artists that you might not be as familiar with.
If you need a helping hand, may we suggest that you make a beeline for the following at the festival.
For ALL other information, head to blackdeerfestival.com
We’ll be there to capture the mood and some photographs of the performers, people and fabulous food, if you see us, please give us a HUGE smile!