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Andrew Marston with highlights from Bromsgrove Folk and Upton Blues festivals

• Bringing you highlights from last weekend's Bromsgrove Folk Festival.

• Returning to the town of festivals as Upton welcomes the Blues.

• Visiting Orchard Fest, organised by the team behind Bromsgrove's Puddle Party, raising money for local hospices.

2 hours

Music Played

  • The Indigo Kings

    Honey

  • Chikaya

    Castles

  • Robinson-Stone

    Take It Or Leave It

  • Lucy May Walker

    Self Destruction

  • Alex Valentine

    Sea Air

    • Struck Dumb.
  • Quantic

    Divergence

    • Tru Thoughts.
  • The Grimaldi Band

    Breathe

  • Emily Ewing

    Know This

  • Marcel Zidani

    Danny Boy

  • Ellen Louise

    Silver Linings

  • Mae Bradbury

    14 Days

  • Tale Lights

    Still Young

  • Res-Q

    Too Much Too Soon

  • Rachel By The Stream

    Call It Love

  • Lawrence Taylor

    Waiting For Your Love

    • DLM.
  • Years & Years

    Play (Live from Glastonbury 2019)

    • Polydor.
  • Years & Years

    King (Live from Glastonbury 2019)

    • Polydor.

Highlights: Bromsgrove Folk Festival

This was the 28th annual festival, organised by the team behind the Bromsgrove Folk Club, and took place at The Bowling Green on Shaw Lane in Stoke Prior.
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The team usually meet on the second and last Thursday of every month at the Catshill Club and say: "We pride ourselves on booking artists who entertain".
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As well as hosting live music, the festival also had a ukulele workshop, dance demonstrations and The World Dry Foam Flinging Championships.

19 - 21 July: Upton Blues Festival

This event has grown each year and is now one of the largest free-admission festivals in the region.
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Upton Blues has grown from a small gathering in a couple of pubs into a event that swamps the town with many thousands of music fans, two main stages, an acoustic stage and ten pubs creating more than 130 performances in three days.
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Following independent research commissioned by Malvern Hills District Council, the festival is said to contribute more than £800,000 to the local economy every year.

Features

  • In the Gig Guide: Details ofÌýBretFest near Evesham, Nozstock near Bromyard and the Upton Blues Festival.

Highlights: Orchard Fest, Bromsgrove

A music festival, in memory of a loving mum, returned to Bromsgrove last weekend.
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'Puddle Party presents Orchard Fest' raised funds for the Primrose and St Richard’s Hospices.
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It's took place at Puddle Wharf Farm on the Redditch Road.
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Dave Morgan launched the festival in memory of his wife Trish who passed away in 2011 from a brain tumour.
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Before she died, she was eager to raise funds for the Primrose Hospice for the help it gave her - and the first event took place in 2016.

Glastonbury highlights: Years and Years

Performing on the Pyramid stage was Olly Alexander and his band Years and Years - who have previously topped the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Sound Of list.
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Olly studied at Hereford College Of Arts and became the band's lead singer after meeting at a house party and was overheard singing in the shower!

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music at LakeFest, Eastnor Castle

Lakefest returns to Eastnor Deer Park in August this year and will be guaranteed to be even bigger and better than ever.

Kaiser Chiefs, Happy Mondays, The Pigeon Detectives, James and Sophie Ellis-Bextor are all on the line-up.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester will also have a tent at the festival, showcasing local talent from Herefordshire & Worcestershire.Ìý

For details of how to send your music in and to be considered for future events, visit bbc.in/hwcontact

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  • Sun 21 Jul 2019 18:00

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