Folk On The Dock
Event
Location:Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
Date:Friday 24 - Monday 27 August
Time:12pm - 7pm
Price:Free
Folk on the Dock returns to Royal Albert Dock Liverpool this August bank holiday as we celebrate 3 days of folk, roots and acoustic music from Friday 24 – Monday 27 August 2018.
Now in its third year, Folk on the Dock 2018 boasts ten stages and 200 artistes attracting music lovers and performers from all over the world. Also incorporating the Liverpool Shanty festival with music on boats around the water’s edge and the contemporary Dock Stage which is to be hosted by the legendary Janice Long.
The event will kick off with a SOLD OUT ticketed launch event with headline artist Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band on Friday 24th August, in the stunning Museum of Liverpool.
The Folk On The Dock full line-up is now revealed...
Grammy nominated lyricist and double Ivor Novello award winner Chris Difford, the co-founder of Squeeze, will be performing an acoustic set on Saturday 25 August. Difford has written some of the world’s most enduring and best loved songs, including Up The Junction, Cool For Cats, Labelled With Love and Tempted.
Daoirí Farrell, the winner of two BBC Folk Awards in 2017, will be flying in from Ireland to perform on Monday 27 August and is sure to draw crowds, having bagged The Horizon Award for Best Newcomer and Best Traditional Track last year.
Liverpool born singer-songwriter Robert Vincent will also be performing on Monday 27 August. He received the inaugural Emerging Artist Award from “Whispering” Bob Harris in 2016 and the UK Americana Music Association’s UK Album of The Year for 2018.
Following his debut album in 2013, he toured the UK supporting Paul Carrack, James Blunt, Squeeze and The Pretenders at the Royal Albert Hall.
Bringing international talent to Folk On The Dock on Monday 27 August is New Zealand based band Tiny Ruins, led by Hollie Fullbrook. Following her ‘Hurtling Through’ collaboration with The Clean's Hamish Kilgour, and ‘Dream Wave’ - a single recorded with film director David Lynch, Hollie returns with her spellbinding live band to bring a new set of songs to the Folk On The Dock audience. They'll be hot off the trails of a European tour and gearing up for their early 2019 release of a new album.
Blue Rose Code will arrive off the back of their critically acclaimed 2017 LP The Water Of Leith performing on Sunday 26 August. Having recently embarked on an expansive UK touring schedule that has included festivals such as Celtic Connections, Edinburgh Fringe, Looe, Summer Isles, Lindisfarne, Southern Fried and Underneath The Stars.
Brother and sister duo The Luck, performing on Sunday 26 August, will arrive with more than 1.5 million Spotify streams to their name and a debut album on the horizon. Working on the album, the pair enlisted the help of producer Paul Broucek (President of Music at Warner Brothers Pictures); three-time Grammy Award-winning engineer/mixer Ed Cherney (The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt); and Paul Hicks (Grammy Award winning musician, engineer and mixer, The Beatles).
Also taking to the stage on Sunday 26 August is Cardiff-based singer/songwriter Ivan Moult who returned in April with new album Longest Shadow, released via Bubblewrap Collective. Since releasing his debut EP, The Mine Canary in 2010, and his first album, Second Guessing in 2014, Moult has received praise from the likes of Folk Radio UK, BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson, BBC Radio Wales and more.
Gizmo Varillas will also play The Dock stage on Sunday 26 August, having released his second LP, Dreaming Of Better Days, this year. The album followed his 2017 debut El Dorado, which was critically acclaimed and ranked as one of the year’s Top 10 albums by Classic Pop magazine.
The line-up has been completed with a mix of established and emerging talent, including a host of exciting young acts with passionate, growing fanbases.
Don’t miss so many more amazing performances across Folk On The Dock’s ten stages in and around the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool and its iconic venues.
The full programme with all performances schedules and times will be announced very soon! Keep checking back with us @FolkOnTheDock @theAlbertDock #FolkOnTheDock
