03/08/2016
COMEDY COMING TO ALDEBURGH!
The Maverick team are set to present a weekend of comedy in Aldeburgh featuring maverick comedians ALEXEI SAYLE, STEWART LEE, BRIDGET CHRISTIE and festival favourite TINA C. More details on our EVENTS page
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06/07/2016
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED!
Maverick number nine was a wonderful experience and raised all our spirits in our time of need!
Yet again thanks go out to the Maverick team, the audience, their children & pets, the performers and finally to Easton Farm Park without whom we would be just another bunch of tents in a field. Oh and thanks to the weather gods for letting us dodge the rain while all around were getting drenched. Next year is the tenth anniversary so lets make that really special!
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21/06/2016
NOSHVILLE AT KINGS CROSS
We are excited to present THE MAVERICK TRAVELLING MEDICINE SHOW at London Kings Cross this Friday afternoon and all day Saturday as part of NOSHVILLE, a celebration of Americana tastes and sounds with food and drink brought to you by street food pioneers KERB FOOD. Get a FREE taste of some of the artists who will be performing at the Maverick Festival.
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30/03/2016
JIMMIE RODGERS TRIBUTE
The stars are lining up to help us celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Jimmie Rodgers Museum in Meridian, Mississippi. To be hosted by acclaimed JR interpreter, BRITT GULLY, SAM OUTLAW, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, RYAN COOK and JON LANGFORD are so far confirmed to perform a Jimmie Rodgers song on Friday night July 1st on the Peacock Stage accompanied by our house band, led by the illustrious BJ COLE. More names to follow.
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16/02/2016
FREE CD OFFER!
The Maverick BARNSTORMERS 2015 CD is now available! Recorded live in the Barn and featuring ROBYN HITCHCOCK, GAL HOLIDAY, HANNAH ALDRIDGE, SONIA LEiGH and many more. To get your FREE copy, simply purchase your festival tickets direct from us while stocks last. See TICKET page for more details.
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14/07/2015
Maverick 2016
The ninth Maverick Festival will take place at Easton Farm Park on July 1st 2nd & 3rd 2016. Save the date!
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08/07/2015
BATHING IN THE AFTERGLOW
Thanks to the performers, traders, crew and festival goers who came together to make Maverick Number Eight the biggest and best so far. Our community continues to grow but we are determined to preserve our small but perfectly formed festival just the way you like it. We look forward to welcoming old friends and new to next year“s event. The Maverick Team wish you all a great summer.
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26/06/2015
BILLY BRAGG
To ensure the best audience experience for Billy‘s appearance at Maverick we have moved him outside in the sunshine to the Sweet Home Alabama stage where he will now perform on Saturday at the earlier time of 5pm
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19/06/2015
ANOTHER ALABAMA SWEETHEART
SONIA LEIGH has written hits with Zac Brown and records for his label.
Catch her in the Barn on Friday night and again Saturday with the Yellowhammer Review, celebrating the musical heritage of Alabama.
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04/06/2015
WELCOME AN AMERICAN FOLK ICON
Tom Paley is truly an American folk icon and the last of his generation, a man who has played along Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, inspired Bob Dylan and taught banjo to Ry Cooder. Join him for music and memories on Maverick Saturday.
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18/05/2015
BELL TENT MEADOW FULL!
Attention all you glampers!
The bell tents are now sold out and we have limited availability in the tipi village so book now to avoid disappointment!
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17/04/2015
RETURN OF THE ROLLING REVUE!
Clubhouse Records returns to the Peacock stage on Friday night with a little help from Michter’s Whiskey to present a six hour ramble through an incredible night of Americana, Roots and Alt-country. Featuring Case Hardin, The Dreaming Spires, Don Gallardo and friends, The Rosellys and Paul McClure with special guests Simon Stanley-Ward and Emma Swift PLUS a complimentary taste of Kentucky ryes, bourbons and whiskeys form the South“s oldest distillery. Bottoms up!
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16/03/2015
Myth-Making at Maverick
This July marks the fiftieth anniversary of BOB DYLAN‘S infamous appearance at the Newport Folk Festival when he and his band plugged in and the audience tuned out. JOE BOYD later to become an acclaimed impresario, producer and record company chief was on the sound desk on that fateful day. Come meet Joe at Maverick and find out whether the audience really booed or cheered.
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18/02/2015
THE RETURN OF LARKIN POE!
Georgia sweethearts Rebecca and Megan will return to the festival this year with Larkin Poe
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19/01/2015
FIRST ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR 2015
First acts are announced for the eighth Maverick Festival. See our LINEUP page for details!
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17/12/2014
MERRY MAVERICK CHRISTMAS!
The Maverick Team would like to wish all festival fans a Merry Christmas!
(Don‘t forget that 2015 festival tickets are still available at 2014 prices until December 31st.)
Yee ha and yo ho ho!
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27/10/2014
THANKSGIVING DOWN ON THE FARM
Award-winning Canadian country princess MEAGHAN BLANCHARD and banjo supremo DAN WALSH will perform at the Maverick Thanksgiving Ranch Party on Friday November 21st with support from house band THE FOUNDING FATHERS aka THE KEVIN DUFFY BAND. Join us in the Moonshine Bar for tasty turkey treats and pumpkin pie. See our EVENTS page for more details and to book tickets.
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13/10/2014
Saved by the Belle
Our deepest thanks go out to Canadian singer LYNNE HANSON who filled it at the very last minute for Brigitte De Meyer when illness forced her to cancel her show in the Moonshine Bar on Friday. In a miraculous turn of events, Lynne had a night off from her own tour and generously stepped in when she heard of our dilemma. A great night was had by all and Lynne has made some new friends and fans in Suffolk.
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11/07/2014
2015
Next year the festival dates are 3rd, 4th and 5th July 2015 - which means that Saturday falls on Independence Day. Expect all sorts of suitable Maverick surprises!
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09/07/2014
MAVERICK SAYS THANK YOU AND SORRY.
Many thanks for coming to Maverick number seven! We finally got some rain after six dry years. Tents were dampened but our spirits were not as more people than ever joined us for the weekend. That was the good news but our trusty campers suffered - too few toilets, two of the shower stalls refused to function and to cap it all our ancient Victorian plumbing failed in the Farm Park bathrooms. WE APOLOGISE TO YOU ALL. We have already TREBLED our order for portable toilets next year, DOUBLED the shower capacity and are working with our hosts at Easton Farm Park to UPGRADE the infrastructure ahead of next year‘s event. Please bear with us. Cyder, ale and lager flowed from the bar, the food stalls kept us fed and the music moved our souls. Next year we WILL get it right.
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09/06/2014
MUSCLE SHOALS ROYALTY
We are delighted to announce that Muscle Shoals very own HANNAH ALDRIDGE will join the festival line-up to perform on Friday & Saturday night. She will also talk about our featured movie documentary MUSCLE SHOALS alongside veteran session man DAVID HOOD. She is well qualified - her father is the legendary song-writer, Alabama Hall of Famer, and Muscle Shoals side-man WALT ALDRIDGE.
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31/05/2014
FRIDAY NIGHT IS AMAUK NIGHT!
This year we invited the Americana Music Association UK to programme the Peacock Stage on Friday evening immediately after their conference. The legendary HANK WANGFORD will open proceedings in his inimitable fashion and introduce a lineup drawn from the best and brightest of the AMA membership, including acoustic foot-stompers RITA PAYNE, THE JAMIE FREEMAN AGREEMENT, ABI MOORE, Brighton quartet HOUSE OF HATS hailed by Q magazine as a “younger Crosby, Still and Nash” and country blues preachers THE GOAT ROPER RODEO BAND.
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09/05/2014
HOLLY WILLIAMS
The spirit of the great Hank Williams will be with us this year in the shape of his grand-daughter Holly Williams whose latest album is riding high in the Billboard charts.
Hank hails from Montgomery, Alabama where there is a museum dedicated to this iconic artist whose influence is still very much alive today not least at Maverick 2014.
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17/04/2014
ALABAMA COMES TO SUFFOLK
What do Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Paul SImon, Leon Russell and JJ Cale have in common? The answer is DAVID HOOD, bass player from the Muscle Shoals house band who is flying in from Alabama to introduce our exclusive festival screening of the MUSCLE SHOALS documentary. Come and meet the man who played on some of the most enduring hits in American music.
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11/04/2014
WARD THOMAS at Maverick
You heard them on Wogan now see them live at the festival. We are excited to welcome twin sisters Catherine and Lizzy WARD THOMAS to our lineup.
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29/03/2014
MARY GAUTHIER JOINS LINEUP
Louisiana native turned Nashville resident MARY GAUTHIER will make her only UK summer festival appearance at Maverick this year. With her classic back catalogue lauded by the likes of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits plus a brand new live album, we can‘t wait to hear her.
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06/02/2014
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
We are thrilled to announce that this year, thanks to our friends at the Alabama Tourism Department, we are proud to introduce a brand new outdoor stage to be known as the SWEET HOME ALABAMA stage. Same great Americana music and now on a fab new stage. Look out for an exclusive festival screening of the award-winning MUSCLE SHOALS documentary and check out KEITH RICHARDS and friends in the trailer on our home screen!
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01/11/2013
STEPHEN SIMMONS ADDED TO PUMPHOUSE LINEUP
Those whisky soaked Nashville nights have left their mark on the music of the Tennessee singer/songwriter Stephen Simmons, fuelling it with old-school twang and classic story-telling. Come feel his pain when he joins Luke Winslow King on Saturday November 9th at the Pumphouse in Aldeburgh.
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01/11/2013
STEPHEN SIMMONS ADDED TO PUMPHOUSE LINEUP
Those whisky soaked Nashville nights have left their mark on the music of the Tennessee singer/songwriter Stephen Simmons, fuelling it with old-school twang and classic story-telling. Come feel his pain when he joins Luke Winslow King on Saturday November 9th at the Pumphouse in Aldeburgh.
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21/10/2013
Cool Hand Luke
Luke Winslow-King and his trio bring their own unique sound steeped in the traditions of New Orleans and beyond. One not to be missed.
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17/10/2013
OTIS IS ON THE WAY
Festival favourite Otis Gibbs is on his way to Suffolk. This is the guy who SOLD OUT of CDs the night of his performance at Maverick in 2009 so do not miss this chance to see him up close and personal in the coolest venue in Suffolk. (We will have the heat on so it will not be too cool)
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18/09/2013
AUTUMN AT THE PUMPHOUSE
ISRAEL GRIPKA NASH will kick of our latest series of events on October 12th at the iconic Pumphouse in Aldeburgh, our spiritual home by the sea, with support from JOSH HARTY.
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03/09/2013
BUDDY MONDLOCK
BUDDY MONDLOCK TO PLAY HOUSE CONCERT AT HISTORIC WINGFIED COLLEGE
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10/07/2013
Maximum Maverick
Another festival is over and the legend grows with our sixth year of unbroken sunshine!
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02/07/2013
BJ COLE JOINS LINEUP
BJ Cole best known for his work with REM, Dolly Parton and Elton John will present a steel guitar master class in the Tack Room on Saturday afternoon and then join Dennis Ellsworth for his show in the Peacock Cafe.
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14/06/2013
STEPHEN KELLOGG
American troubadour Stephen Kellogg, former leader of Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, will make a raucous solo outing for his UK festival debut.
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29/05/2013
THE RAGGED STRING BAND
Festival favourites the Ragged String Band are back on the Farm!
After performing a unofficial barn-storming set in the Tack Room last year, East Anglia‘s answer to the The Old Crow Medicine will join the lineup on Saturday night.
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16/04/2013
FLYING BURRITOS‘ IAN DUNLOP
We are delighted to add to the festival programme the truly legendary GRAM PARSONS/FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS bass player IAN DUNLOP who will be in conversation with the Guardian‘s Tim Dowling.
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02/04/2013
OLD MAN LUEDECKE
OLD MAN LUEDECKE has joined the festival lineup. Canada‘s highest honour is the JUNO award and OLD MAN LUEDECKE has just been nominated for his THIRD! Catch him for his only UK festival appearance.
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06/03/2013
MINDY SMITH ADDED
Mindy Smith joins the festival lineup. This former winner of the AMA Best New Artist award will bring her trio to perform at Maverick on Saturday night.
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31/01/2013
CLUBHOUSE IN THE HOUSE!
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH CLUBHOUSE RECORDS, WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT SOME OF THE UK‘S VERY BEST, HOME-GROWN AMERICANA PERFORMERS
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21/01/2013
NEIL INNES JOINS LINEUP
NEIL INNES WILL BRING HIS UNIQUE, PYTHONESQUE TAKE ON AMERICANA TO THE FESTIVAL!
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07/01/2013
MAVERICK VALENTINE
Joins us for a Valentine celebration on FRIDAY 15TH FEBRUARY at the Pumphouse in Aldeburgh with festival faves The VAGABAND and THE HENRY BROTHERS.
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24/12/2012
MERRY CHRISTMAS
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO OUR WONDERFUL MAVERICK COMMUNITY.
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28/10/2012
IT‘S PARTY TIME!
Our second annual Thanksgiving Ranch Party is set for Saturday November 24th. A night of great music, food and refreshments lays ahead courtesy of THE BACKYARD DEVILS, DENNIS ELLSWORTH and THE BLACK FEATHERS.
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05/10/2012
LATE LINE-UP ADDITION
Bob Harris favourite CHRIS PUREKA has been added to our Maverick night at the Halesworth Arts Festival.
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12/09/2012
HALESWORTH ARTS FESTIVAL
This year we have been invited to curate a night at the prestigious Halesworth Arts Festival so carrying the Maverick torch, we are proud to present the legendary ALICE GERRARD and BEVERLY SMITH playing Old Time Appalachian-style, the acclaimed singer/songwriter/poet GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV and West Coast country rockers BLAME SALLY. Watch out for their videos right here on our home page.
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24/08/2012
MADISON VIOLET CANCELLED
We are very sad to report that a family illness has prevented Madison Violet from leaving their native Canada. We wish them well and apologise to all their disappointed fans.
We are pleased to report however, that the Maverick team has pulled out all the stops and instead can bring you the wonderful ARLENES along with festival superstar BROOKS WILLIAMS plus, as advertised, the RAGGED STRING BAND so the show will go on!
A full refund is also available for anyone who would prefer it.
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21/06/2012
Steve Arlene
Steve from the Arlenes will be mc‘ing in the Barn Stage on Saturday.
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18/06/2012
Toy Hearts Broken!
The Toy Hearts have broken ours! Scheduling snafus mean Maverick veterans the Toy Hearts will not make the event this year.
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28/05/2012
FESTIVAL FILM ANNOUNCED!
Tom Weber‘s film “TROUBADOUR BLUES“ will debut at Maverick followed by a discussion with Nashville singer/songwriter AMY SPEACE who appears in the film and will perform live in the Peacock Cafe.
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21/05/2012
Sadie - gone but not forgotten!
Elizabeth McGovern and band will not be joining us again this year because of an unexpected conflict with her filming schedule.
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04/05/2012
A Taste of New Orleans
SInger/songwriter GRAYSON CAPPS comes from the Crescent City to add some gumbo to the mix.
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19/04/2012
THE MOONSHINE BAR
New stage added serving icy mint juleps and sizzling Delta blues.
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21/03/2012
ROCKINGBIRDS ARE GO!
Veteran alt country pioneers will make rare landing at this years festival.
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15/03/2012
GRETCHEN PETERS JOINS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS!
Nashville singer songwriter and Grammy nominee GRETCHEN PETERS will join the festival lineup to help us celebrate our fifth birthday.
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26/02/2012
LATEST LINEUP
Its true - RICH HALL really is coming back.
By special request, he will present the Otis Lee Crenshaw Hoedown Party on Saturday night in the Barn. Book early to avoid disappointment!
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23/01/2012
Maverick at the Crown
Thanks to all who attended the Maverick at the Crown on Saturday night.
The event was SOLD OUT!
Please check our EVENTS page for details on how to book for our show with BRIGITTE DE MEYER and friends on Feb 10th
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