The Great British R&B Festival 2024

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SATURDAY 24TH AUGUST

9:30pm - 10:30pm Chantel McGregor The Blues came calling first for Chantel McGregor, but Rock was always waiting around the corner. Well it would be, wouldn’t it? Coming from the deep south, it was inevitable, but living in the deep south of a major Yorkshire City, there’s a gritty hard edge to life! A female guitar prodigy, Chantel was told by a major label that she had a “great voice, but girls don’t play guitar like that!” Wisely ignoring their comments, she enrolled at the Leeds College of Music and became the first student in the college’s history, to achieve a 100% pass mark at BTEC, with 18 distinctions. Chantel then pursued further education and left with a First Class Honours degree in Popular Music and a coveted prize, the college’s Musician of the Year award. After years of touring and festival appearances, Chantel returned with a vengeance with ten new songs that not only salute contemporary rock, but show her gradual transition from conventional Blues to a harder, bigger, and bolder rock sound with progressive influences.

11:00pm - 12:00am Dom Martin & Band Dom Martin is a multi-award winning Irish guitarist, hailed by many as the successor to the legendary blues/rock artists Rory Gallagher and fellow Belfast man Gary Moore. Dom has won multiple awards for his acoustic work with a 2019 European award, UK awards in 2020/2021/2022 and as a result is now an inductee in the UK Blues Hall of Fame. He is equally adept on electric with his power trio, having won the UK Blues Awards Best Instrumentalist Award 2022 & 2023. The trio is always an extremely popular addition to any blues/rock festival and we can’t wait to welcome them back to Colne after an incredible performance in 2023.

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