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Gretton Music Festival - taking place over the August Bank Holiday weekend, from Friday 22nd through Monday 25th August - is
Northamptonshire’s biggest community-based music festival. Now in its fi fth year, and sponsored by Seaton’s Solicitors, the organizers are delighted to announce that the following fabulous acts have been confi rmed to appear:

Stevie Jones and The Wildfi res - Friday 22nd August, 8pm at The Blue Bell

Free entry to see this leading Northants singer/songwriter who also performs powerful vocal covers of Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Rod Stewart.

Nick Pynn and Kate Daisy Grant - Saturday 23rd August, 7.30pm at Gretton Village Hall

Avant-folk masterpieces and emotive, quirky pop songs performed on toy, folk and even homemade instruments. Tickets are available
from Gretton Post Offi ce and cost £10 (£8 concessions).

Point-Blank - Saturday 23rd August, 8pm at Gretton Sports Club

This fi ve-piece band perform classics from the 50s through to modern-day anthems. Sing-along party tunes plus the latest rock and pop
infused dance-fl oor fi llers are guaranteed to see all ages boogie on down! Free admission.

Jive Honey: Hand Clappin’ Foot Stompin’ Funky Butts Live! - Sunday 24th August, 7.30pm Gretton Village Hall

A ten-piece soul band, with vocals, horn and rhythm section. Playing a mix of soul classics from Stax and Motown 60s through to the very
best of today’s tunes. Not to be missed (and defi nitely not to be confused with similarlynamed 80s cover act Jive Bunny). Tickets cost
£10 and are available from Gretton Post Offi ce.

Other confi rmed performances for Saturday 23rd August include Fabulous French at Lydia’s Coffee Shop at 11am, a fun event aimed at junior members of the audience; Market Harborough Ukulele Group, also at Lydia’s, 11.30am; and Millstone Grit, 12noon on The Village Green, an all-male vocal group singing an eclectic mix of sea shanties, vintage pop and folk songs.

For further details please visit www.grettonmusicfestival.com