Bakewell Acoustic Music Festival 13-15^th August 2010

On the Bakewell Showground in the heart of the Peak District

Free Camping and Caravanning for the Festival period

Set on the showground in the picturesque market town of Bakewell this music weekend will have acoustic bands representing all genres of music from Folk, Latin, Country and Bluegrass right through to Acoustic Jazz, Rock and Blues. As well as this enchanting ambiance there will be the finest local real ales and ciders and the chance to taste some of the best food produce from the North.
It's set to be a cultural treat in the heart of the beautiful peak district national park.
This is a 3 day festival starting from Friday 13th August lunchtime through to Sunday 15th afternoon featuring some of the finest acoustic/rock  music (from across the world (Crooked Fiddle from Australia, Gary Potter, Gypsy Fire ,John Reilly, Paul Young etc  ).

On Sunday 15th we are holding our first Acoustic Idol competition. This is going to be a fantastic event for the audience and all musicians looking for their break.

Live Music, Food, Real Ales, Workshops, Stalls and much much more!

Bakewell Acoustic Music Festival Promoters

The Bakewell Acoustic Music Festival has been founded by two like minded friends that have both been in the music industry throughout there lives. With a passion for all that is good from all forms of live music they have endeavoured to stage an event that will cross all genres and be a festival that will be embraced by all music lovers young and old.
The local community is in their forefront and to promote this they will be greatly discounting tickets to patrons with the local postcode.  

Stuart Carter-Smith

Stuart is a full time musician/guitarist in a band called Gypsy Fire. He has toured across the globe for 15 years with various projects but is now fully committed to his latest and most exciting project Gypsy Fire. Gypsy Fire has secured a much coveted recording/publishing deal set to be released early 2010 and has a 6 month release tour to follow.  He has also founded music festivals including “ The International Gypsy Guitar Festival, The Shakedown Rock n Roll festival, Coaley Music Festival” (to name a few ) over the last 10 years. Stuarts passion for acoustic music has led him to play with and meet some of the greatest musicians of our time and he is looking forward to (along with Jonathan) scheduling a truly world class line-up to descend on the town of Bakewell.  

Jonathan Rowlands

Having dedicated 40 years of his life to the music industry Jonathan's most notable achievements came from his time served in Artist Management –his first artist Jeff Beck, 2nd Rod Stewart ( 9 years ) then PR for Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Nancy Wilson, Nina Simone to name a few. He also had success with Record production, Song writing and the Producers workshop Studio followed. These projects included Artists like Tim Rose ( ‘Hey Joe’ ( yes Hendrix heard his version ) –‘Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew’ and music publishing around the world then Jeremy Lloyd (writer of ‘Allo! Allo!’ and ‘Are You Being Served’) moved into view and along with Jonathan they produced and published ‘Captain Beaky and His Band’ – not forgetting 'Hissing Sid'! and these are still selling on the internet to today www.captainbeaky.com .   Dickensworld (an Entertainment complex in Rochester) and Red Redemption (a learning games company with their soon to be launched game "Fate of the World" www.red-redemption.com (with his son Gobion)) and the Acoustic Festival all fulfil his "actively retired" time.