On August Bank Holiday Monday the Acoustic Stage will become home to the Cream Instrument Cable Stage. It is presented by 2B Productions Ltd, The Chord Company and the Den, Keighley in association with the Great British R&B Festival and Pendle Leisure Trust.

The aim is to give you great sound quality and the best quality live blues based acts from the UK in a great sounding room. We are bringing hi-fi quality sound to live performance for the first time.

The afternoon session will feature great acoustic based acts and will continue to be part of the pledge badge scheme. From 7.30 the stage becomes ticket only as we feature full band sets by the Robin Hoare Band from Sheffield, the Charlie White Project from Manchester and Billy Martin Jnr in the name of great sound and cross border cooperation. There will also be featured guest spots from some of the best musicians the UK has to offer. Get your ticket booked and get down there to find out just who they are…you may be surprised! Tickets are £7 and available from the Festival Box Office – 01282 661234. Numbers are strictly limited and this event will sell out before the weekend.

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The Robin Hoare Band

Robin Hoare is entering a vibrant phase in his career with the release of his new album “A Time and Place”. His songs tell it how it is about today’s world from the credit crisis to online gambling addiction. As well as being a contemporary blues story teller, Robin is one of the most distinctive blues guitarists working today. This is blues to help you get down not to get you down.

www.robinhoare.com

The Charlie White Project

Charlie and the band play a set of hard-core dependable blues, with a highly personal twist. There’s no fat on a Charlie White gig and nothing peripheral or insignificant, just quality playing with feeling. They present prime cuts of finest quality electric blues with funky breaks from his excellent rhythm section. Charlie will also be wielding his dobro for a solo set of his own acoustic/folk blues material.

www.thecharliewhiteproject.com

Billy Martin Junior

Acoustic Roots Poet Mr Billy Martin Junior will take to the stage with a set of his original soulful, blues storytelling, wry humour and a voice of rare power and character. Under his off stage name, Martin Bragger is a highly respected songwriter and noted contributor of songs to Tony Christie’s critically acclaimed Townsend Records release “Made in Sheffield”. That album was produced by another noted Sheffielder Richard Hawley. Go to a Billy Martin Junior gig and you may see grown men cry! Rest assured, you’ll see them laugh too. Pure, rare class.

www.myspace.com/billymartinjnr