The excellent The London Roots Festival grows bigger and better for 2018
The London Roots Festival 24th October - 18th November (formerly The London Folk & Roots Festival) is now in it’s fifth year. It’s grown from doing 6 shows in the first year to 32 in 2017 year across various size venues such as The Palladium, Bush Hall, Union Chapel, Shepherds Bush Empire, Oslo and many more. Growing from strength to strength each year, 2018 promises to be bigger and better than ever.
This year's great line-up includes:-
- Tom Baxter
- Blind Boys Of Alabama
- Joshua Burnside
- Callaghan
- Bruce Cockburn
- Fisherman's Friends
- Finbar Furey
- Jake Morrell
- Lindisfarne
- Over The Rhine
- Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys
- John Smith
- Sound Of The Sirens
- Trampled By Turtles
- Robert Vincent
In 2014 David Messer having promoted roots music for a number of years through DMP UK, decided to start a festival to give a platform for new and up and coming artists to play with known and established artists and to bring the best in roots music to London under one banner. So he teamed up with his friends at National Promotion company Kilimanjaro Live and created the The London Folk & Roots Festival, a multi venue event over two weeks in Oct/Nov.
It’s grown from doing 6 shows in the first year to 32 last year across various size venues such as The Palladium, Bush Hall, Union Chapel, Shepherds Bush Empire, Oslo and many more.
They have changed the name this year as they feel that folk comes under roots and they have an eclectic mix of folk, country, Americana, blues, singer songwriters and world music. We are very pleased here at LCM that this festival, is becoming a great part of London’s musical calendar.
If you are interesting in playing at the festival please send your info to david@dmpuk.com.