The Great British R&B Festival 2024

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7:00pm – 8:00pm The Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience Acclaimed singer Pat Fulgoni

returns with this top-notch 5-piece blues band already with European blues festival dates under their belts and equally at home in UK clubs, venues and festivals. Indeed Pat has sung across many styles including major dance floor collaborations with the likes of

festival headlining acts Camo & Krooked, Zion Train, Technimatic, London Elektricity and Murdock. But it’s truly magical when he sings the blues especially when backed by the stunning musicianship of his band featuring Jacob Beckwith on guitar, Rory Wells on bass, Sam Bolt on keys and Zebedee Sylvester on drums. Expect soaring soulful vocals over vibey guitar and piano-orientated blues. Blues In Britain magazine are quite right to say its “a blues rock set to cherish… Pat and co just do them so well”. 8:30pm – 9:30pm Jo Carley & The Old Dry Skulls Blues, skiffle, calypso and rockabilly with a creepy vaudeville twist, it’s music that makes people wanna shake their bones!

This trio are known for their unique live show, transporting the audience to a bygone era when witches and black magic were rife. Their songs

tell stories of deals with the devil, demons in love, witchdoctors, zombies, ghosts, ghouls, journeys to the deepest jungles and other exotic adventures which are told using sweet melodies and syncopated sounds. Backed by her song-writing partner and husband the Zombie-like Tim Carley, who churns out blues-tinged rhythms on an old archtop guitar, kick drum and rattlin’ shoe, with fellow fiend James Le Huray providing the final ingredients of the spell, in the shape of double bass and banjo.

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