Bournefest announces the full line-up for this year’s event. Bournefest has welcomed some of the best in Blues, Rock & Roots to the stage since 2019.
Bournefest says: “We are excited to be back in Sittingbourne for another sensational lineup of National & International Acts that you won’t want to miss!”
Rockin’ Roots Events presents Bournefest 2025, which will be on Saturday 18th October 2025 at The Appleyard (The Bourne Music Club), Avenue Of Remembrance, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 4DE.
Doors will open at 2pm with food and drinks available.
Tickets are priced at £44.00 each (Price includes fees) and are on sale now – here
Speaking about the event, Promoter of Rockin Roots Events Mark Matthews enthuses:
“I am massively looking forward to hosting Bournefest 2025. Bournefest stands each year as a prominent fixture on our calendar for The Bourne Music Club. Each year delivering a lineup of exceptional national and international talent. This October marks 10 years since I started promoting live music and we are celebrating the occasion with an absolutely awesome schedule of events. Bournefest 2025 will feature a compelling lineup of quality talent.
We have from the USA, critically acclaimed Ally Venable headlining the event plus some southern rock ‘n soul from Hippies & Cowboys (Nashville). Representing the UK’s vibrant blues-rock scene are two highly regarded and much demanded bands in the form of Big Wolf Band and The Della Grants This is going to be BIG!!!”
Performing at Bournefest 2025:
Ally Venable:
Critically acclaimed Texas based blues rock guitarist and vocalist Ally Venable will release her highly anticipated new studio album ‘Money & Power’ via Ruf Records on Friday 18th April 2025.
Rules are there to be broken. Expectations are there to be defied. Glass ceilings are there to be shattered. Having spent the past decade carving out her own unique space in the male-dominated world of blues-rock, Ally Venable’s combative sixth album, ‘Money & Power‘, demands more of both – for herself, for women around the world, and for anyone else who thought they weren’t worthy of a seat at the table.
“‘Money & Power‘ is such a strong statement, especially for women,” says the award-winning Texas gunslinger of her Nashville-recorded new release, on which Ally’s crack-squad band is joined by A- list guests Shemekia Copeland and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram.
“All the songs on this album showcase the theme of what it truly means to be a force to be reckoned with. I want this record to wake people up,” continues Ally.
Money and power make the world go round. But in the right hands, music can be every bit as potent. Right now, on the heels of 2023’s acclaimed Real Gone – an album that hit #1 on the Billboard Blues Charts and was still in contention a year later – Ally is rated amongst the best young singer-songwriters in American roots, saluted by Total Guitar magazine in its poll of Top 100 Blues Guitarists.
Hippies & Cowboys:
Hippies And Cowboys are a rock ’n soul band, originating in Nashville TN. Bringing back a taste of southern rock, blues, and soul, it’s a sound that has defied the test of time. Inspiration comes from the likes of Sam and Dave, The Blues Brothers, Booker T & The MG’s, Otis Redding, and Marvin Gaye, to Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles, The Beatles, Tom Petty, The Rolling Stones and CCR.
Early tracks were recorded in the iconic studios of Muscle Shoals, Alabama: Fame, East Avalon, and Noise Block. This music was captured on the album ‘Live At Fox & Locke‘, and released on vinyl in October 2023.
The band huddled up at Purple House studio in Lieper’s Fork TN, later that same year. From those sessions sprang their first studio release, an EP of six songs called ‘Fork In The Road’, delivered to the world on vinyl, CD, & digital late 2024.
Big Wolf Band:
Formed in Birmingham in 2014, by acclaimed guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Jonathan Earp and bass player Mick Jeynes, explosive, dynamic, raw, emotional, and hardworking are just some of the words used to describe the Big Wolf Band. With Tim Jones on drums, Justin Johnson on guitar and Robin Fox on keys they form one formidable blues rock machine. Big Wolf Band are on the rise making the Top 5 of the best blues bands in the UK via the UK Blues Awards in 2023 and 2024, receiving multiple nominations in various categories. Big Wolf Band have cemented there place as one of the best live bands on the scene.
Big Wolf Band have garnered airplay from Paul Jones on his Radio 2 show, Planet Rock, HRH radio, FM radio across Europe, Australia and the USA and a wide range of international podcasts and internet radio stations. They have also had some amazing reviews of their albums across the globe. Big Wolf Band started their biggest headline tour in 2024 extensively touring the UK and Europe. ‘Rebel’s Journey‘, (review here) the third Big Wolf Band studio album was released worldwide on 19th April 2024 to much acclaim with multiple reviews to back this up and the album itself reached Number 1 in the Amazon Best Selling Blues Chart, Amazon Hot New Releases and most recently Number 1 in the IBBA chart for May 2024. Several tracks being added to Joe Bonamassa’s Spotify Playlist “Cutting Edge Blues” and “Ultimate Blues Rock”. They are still touring extensively across the UK.
UK Blues Band of the Year Finalist 2024
UK Blues Band of the Year Finalist 2023
UK Blues Challenge Finalist 2022
Multiple Award Nominees in 2023 and 2024 UK Blues Federation Blues Awards
The Della Grants:
The Della Grants are an English band whose self-penned songs seamlessly bridge the gaps between Blues, Rock, and Americana.
Since their inception in 2014 The Della Grants have made a name for themselves among industry professionals and fellow musicians alike; for their song writing ability and on-stage performances.
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