Bradford Roots Music Festival ’24 SAT

A true feel-good weekend of local music

Join us at our for our iconic winter festival, where the Wiltshire Music Centre is filled with local bands and musicians over a weekend (Sat 20th and Sun 21st Jan). After the success of last year’s festival, Bradford Roots Music Festival is back bigger and better with a full weekend of events (55 bands),  activities, food and drink and four stages – the Main Stage, The Bar Stage, The Wild & Woolley and The Golden Gudgeon.

Roots is synonymous with community spirit, local talent and an inclusive atmosphere. Artists donate their time for free and all proceeds are shared between Zone Club, Wiltshire Music Centre Trust and Parkinson’s UK.

WHAT’S ON SAT 20 JAN

Please note, programme subject to change

BAR STAGE

11.15 Adrian Long

12.15 Lee Broderick

13.15 Richard Onyett

14.15 The Four Men

16.00 Phil Cooper

17.30 Caroline Radcliffe & Graham Dent Trio

18.30 Sian and Rob Colquhoun

19.30 MEG

20.30 Courting Ghosts Unplugged

MAIN STAGE

11.05 Zone Club

12.15 Beatroot Jazz

13.15 Crossing the Rockies

14.15 The Big Sing Wassail Singing Workshop with Clara Atkins and Jane Harris

16:00 Graham Dent Jazz Trio

17:00 Be Like Will

19:00 The Mighty Rooster

20:00 Frankisoul

21:00 The Corporations

GOLDEN GUDGEON STAGE

12.45 Daisy Chapman

13.45 Jol Rose

14.45 Open Mic with Terry Sheppard MC

16.30 Words & Ears with Dawn Gorman (see below for details)

17.15 El-y-Me

18.15 Ruby Darbyshire

19.15 Jackie & Felix Byrne

20.15 Ma Polaine’s Great Decline

WILD AND WOOLLEY STAGE

12.15 Mark Green’s Blues Band

13.15 Babois Eats The Lizard

14.15 Thieves

16.45 The LilyPetals

17.45 Foxymoron

18.45 Life in Mono

19.45 The Sunnies

21.00 Nothing Rhymes with Orange

FOR CHILDREN

From 11am – 2.30pm, children can create amazing head dresses with craft supremos Chrissie and Esther from Skylarks Creativity – then wear them in the Children’s Parade at 3.15pm

FOYER PARADE

15.15 – 16.00 Children’s Parade and Wassail with Holt Morris

WORDS AND EARS 

What a fabulous line-up we have for the new incarnation of Words & Ears at Bradford Roots Festival 2024 – Sat 20 Jan, when we’ll be hearing poetry from Deborah Harvey, Ruth Sharman, Jeff Phelps, Frances-Anne King, Linda Saunders, Eileen Anne Gordon, Christine Macfarlane and Dee Way. The event will be on the Golden Gudgeon stage at 16:30, with West Wilts Radio on hand to record us.

10pm Close

TICKET PRICES

Sat only ticket £22 / £12 (children under 12 go free with a paying adult)

Two day pass £32 / £17 U18s + students
(add both days to your basket for discount to apply)

SUNDAY 21 JAN

FIND OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING ON SUNDAY 21 JAN HERE

FURTHER LINKS

Read more about the festival in this preview by local music blog, Devizine