Just under three weeks to go!

It's that time of the year again and things are all falling into place as Moira, John and the rest of the dedicated team put the final touches to the festival organisation.

Apart from the fantastic line up of music we have programmed, we have other good news: there will be showers at Didmarton this year! Our friends at OGRI have successfully negotiated with the land owners and come to an arrangement to allow us to drain into the airfield’s system without causing an environmental disaster! So, we can all keep clean this time around!

For the first time we are being sponsored by a couple of high profile music industry suppliers, the Santa Cruz Guitar Company and microphone manufacturer, audio-technica who have kindly made available some products to be given away in the first Didmarton Prize draw. Details appear in a separate press release on this website.

In order to support these generous people we are accommodating a trade stand for Santa Cruz and they will be displaying their fantastic guitars during the festival. There could well be a few wiz guitarists doing demonstrations as well. The prize draw guitar (a dreadnought Model “D”) will also be on display on the stand, take a look and buy a raffle ticket or two!

The microphone is the favourite for bands who prefer to use a single mic on stage and the best exponent of this technique and users of the audio-technica “AT4033”, the New Essex Bluegrass Band will be doing a “Single Mic” workshop explaining the secrets of getting the best out of this practise.

That and with bands like Mountain Heart, Chris Newman and Maire Ni Chathasaigh, Rabbi John, Carl Jones and Beverly Smith, A Band like Alice, The Scoville Units, The Carrivick Sisters etc, it’s going to be a fun weekend!

There are so many in attendance on the Friday that we have extended the programme to begin on main stage at 1pm on Friday so you will be getting even more for your money this year.

If you’ve been before, you know why Didmarton is Britain’s Premier Bluegrass festival and quickly turning into one of the South West’s favourite acoustic music festivals. If you haven’t been, you need to come and find out more!

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