The Great British R&B Festival 2022

MAIN VENUES PENDLE HIPPODROME

8pm Kyla Brox

Blues and soul become inextricably entwined in award-winning singer-songwriter, Kyla Brox, whose raw talent has seen her described as “the finest female blues singer of her generation.” Winner of the UK Blues Challenge 2018 and the European Blues Challenge 2019, voted Best

Female Vocalist in the 2019 European Blues Awards and semi-finalist in the International Blues Challenge 2019 and 2020, Kyla Brox is at the very top of the UK blues scene. Her voice; tender, urgent, gritty, blurring the distinction between pleasure and pain, mixed with the enchantingly fluent guitar work of Paul Farr, inspired bass playing of Danny Blomeley and in-the-pocket drumming of Mark Warburton, combine to make a unique and powerful, often joyous, always emotional experience. With thousands of albums sold and a constantly growing fanbase, Kyla Brox is widely regarded as one of the very best soul-blues singers the British Isles has ever produced.

9:30pm The Uptown All Star Big Band Joe Madden formed the Uptown Band in the 1960’s and has not stopped touring since. 2022 marks his 55th Anniversary of the band.

Joe and his Merry Band have been bluesing, boozing and rocking up the Pennine Valley through several generations, members of the band have major international and high-profile links. This set will blow you away with one of the areas most loved blues and soul funksters.

11pm Dr Feelgood Finishing off this year’s line-up at the Hippodrome are veteran pub rock R&B giants Dr Feelgood. Their brand of high energy, in your face rockin blues medicine has been addictive since the mid 1970’s and is still as potent today as it was then. If you’re feeling bad then let Dr Feelgood make you well.

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