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Raglan Music Festival

Award winning Music Festival

About Me


Established in 2005, Raglan Music Festival has grown to be one of the most diverse, community led Music Festivals in the UK.
The photos shown below are just a small selection of some of the performances which took place at Raglan Festival 2007.
The 2007 Festival featured over forty performances at nine different venues with music styles ranging from Rock to Jazz, Blues, Folk, Indie, Classical & Choral. Children workshops help encourage an uptake in music and open jam sessions welcomed participation from all.
The Festival provides and annual bursary to pay for music lessons for local school children and actively promotes the performance of live music of all types.
Bands are currently being recruited for 2008. For more information contact [email protected] or send us a myspace message.
Geoff Downes joins welsh acoustic band Loose for a rendition of arguably his most famous composition 'Video Killed the Radio Star' originally performed by The Buggles. It was Performed at the Raglan Music Festival in June 2007 in the courtyard of The Ship public house. Twas a beautiful sunny day and this track got everyone buzzing. The music on the video is mostly the Buggles version with a snippet of Loose and Geoff to give you a flavour of the day. If you're looking for something to do in the summer of 2008 get down to Raglan!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/25/2006
Band Website: raglan-festival.org
Band Members:Raglan Music Festival is run by an elected Committee and is a not for profit Community Group. Any surplus at the end of the year is fed back into future festivals.
In December 2007 The Festival received an award for Best Overall Marketing Strategy for an Event in Monmouthshire.

Influences: Absinthe, Go-X, Accord, Govilon String Quartet, Allegria, Gwerinwyr Gwent, Back Alley Sally, Kris Radar, Beats Work, Hair, The BiG, Icon, Bitchpups, Isca Morrismen, Blaenavon Male voice Choir, Jonny Quick Band, Bungleflint, Key Buggle, Cambrensis, Koolkatz, Catherine Handley, Kozmik Drive, St Cadoc's Millennium Chimes, Loco AllStars, Chapter XIII, Loose, Chris Moreton, Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash, The Cliveden Set, Mavron Quartet, The Committee, MEL, The Core, Pedro, Cube, Phenom, Craig Bradbury, Primavera Saxophone Quartet, Dan Dunne, Raglan Light Orchestra, Dog Face Boys, Raglan School, Eddie Walker, SaidMike, Eluned Pearce, Saxology, EP, Sherbet Mandao, The Flying Shepherds, Soapbox, Frequent Flyers, Something Sultry, Frost at Midnight, Tom Fairnie, Gan-Aimn, The Mighty Pledge, Gethin Pearson, Usk Brass Band, Geoff Downes & John Wetton, Without Alex, Glow, Zephyr Band, Wishbone Ash, Asia, Buggles, Lounging About,
Sounds Like: View Map
Record Label: Not applicable
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Call for bands

Call for bands ... 2009 Bands wanted for 2009 Festival. Please supply the following information Name of band Sound samples (Myspace/website/MP3 files preferred) Average age of Band members if under ...
Posted by Raglan Music Festival on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:18:00 PST

Band Applications Closed for 2008

Many thanks to the 400+ bands who have contacted us to play at this year's Festival. We are now wading through the applications to select groups that reflect the multi-genre focus of the event.A short...
Posted by Raglan Music Festival on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:07:00 PST

Weve just won an award!

Woo hoo -  we've  just won an award,  "Best Overall Use of a Marketing Strategy" for an event or Festival in Monmouthshire. We've even got a snazzy tie pin and a fancy logo on our...
Posted by Raglan Music Festival on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:57:00 PST

Festival launches annual Bursary

An annual bursary worth more than £1,000 has been launched by Raglan Music Festival to fund the teaching of musical instruments to local school children. The award to be known as the Raglan Music Fest...
Posted by Raglan Music Festival on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:14:00 PST

Call for bands ... 2008

Bands wanted for 2008 Festival. Please supply the following information Name of band Sound samples (Myspace/website/MP3 files preferred) Average age of Band members if under eighteen Original material...
Posted by Raglan Music Festival on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:23:00 PST

Dates announced for 2008

6th - 8th June Make sure you make a note of it! Full details will appear on the official Raglan Festival site www.raglan-festival.org See ya all next year!...
Posted by Raglan Music Festival on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:54:00 PST

Another fabulous Festival .....

Not broken our duck yet! - another three sell out nights at the Beaufort ensured that Raglan Music Festival gets better and better each year. An estimated 3,500- 4000 people attended over 40 performan...
Posted by Raglan Music Festival on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:44:00 PST

Festival Tickets Now available

Tickets for the Festival Evening concerts are now available for secure online purchase at www.raglan-festival.org Please note that as all previous concerts have sold our well in advance we would recom...
Posted by Raglan Music Festival on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:59:00 PST