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Preview: Big Gorgeous Festival
Best known for laying down the foundations for the sonic maelstrom that is the John E Vistic Experience, dapper Dan Clibery has put together a frankly splendid event that will (with your help) raise a boat load of money for cancer research. Here’s the skinny: “Big Gorgeous is a one-day festival with an eclectic mix of music, performance, food and drink. We have an amazing location in the heart of Bristol: Windsor Terrace is a listed Georgian terrace situated on the side of the Avon Gorge in front of Clifton Suspension bridge. We have a great bill of local & national bands and musicians including: Big Boss Man (a hip Hammond hybrid of 60’s and 70’s drenched R’n’B, Funk, Latin, Jazz, Soul and Pop); Katey Brooks (an unbelievable singer-songwriter and Indie Award nominee); Bristol Ensemble (A quintet from the City’s only professional orchestra), Baila La Cumbia (Bristol’s finest Cumbia and Latin purveyors, guaranteed to get you moving!) and Ilu Axe Samba (one of Europe’s top Samba-Reggae groups)”. Yep, that’s a damn god line-up, but Dan has really gone to town with this as in addition… “We have a whole site Bollywood Dance Workshop, a performance from Bristol Capoeira, a great selection of fantastic food and drink traders and exciting kids’ activities”.
This isn’t just another festival though, as the whole impetuous is to make sense of a traumatic event and turn it in to something positive: “My Dad passed away from cancer just over a year ago and this has motivated me to organise this event. All proceeds will be going to Cancer Research UK. We’re losing far too many wonderful people to this terrible disease. My dad was a talented musician; bringing people together for excellent music and good times is something my dad would have loved. So, having worked in Bristol as a musician and music educator over the last 20 years, a festival to raise money and awareness for a Cancer Research charity seemed like the natural choice and a positive way to respond to this horrible time”. There can’t be any other finer way of spending an afternoon in early August, so round up your friends & family and get there early – dance, eat, drink and be merry.
It’s all happening on Saturday 6th August – details here.
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