Malvern music festival

Press, 11 February 1983, Page 7

Malvern music festival

A second Malvern Coun-try-Folk Music Festival will be held later this month at the Double ‘D’ Appaloosa Stud, the Whitcliffs Valley farm where John HoreGrenell lives.

The festival's organiser, Deirdre Grenell, said that after the success of last year’s country-folk festival, many people were keen to see it again.

This year 2500 tickets had been printed for the festival. There was already a lot of interest throughout the South Island, she said.

The festival begins at the Double ‘D’ stud 7 p.m. on Friday, February 18, and ends at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb-

ruary 20. The festival is billed to provide family entertainment. with special shows for children, plus music, crafts, workshops, camping facilities, barbecues, hot water, and a creche.

A wide variety of groups and artists have been secured. The bands include the Gypsy Mountain Pickers, formerly from the United States, Southbound, a bluegrass band, the Canterbury Bush Orchestra, including Phil Garland, Short 'n' Curly Remedy, Bo and Eddie (folk singers), and the Country Brothers from Dunedin. Soloists to line up included Sally O. from Alaska: Steve

Thomas, a poet; Dave Moore, a singer: Pat Grant, an Irish artist; Lynn Stoddard, a singer from Dunedin; Paul Marks, a former English folk singer who has made his home in Christchurch; and Lyn Clark, who supported Don McLean in Christchurch last year. Tickets to the festival are available at the Canterbury Environment Centre, the Farmyard Restaurant, and EMI record shops, in Christchurch, or by sending a stamped, addressed envelope to Double ‘D’ Enterprises. R.D. Coalgate. Tickets cost $l2 for the week-end. and $8 for a single day. Children are admitted free.’