Jaipur Kawa Brass Band and Mighty Zulu Nation join Bellowhead, Demon Barber Roadshow plus more at Scarborough Fair

Musicport@Scarborough Fair announces the finest in folk and world music at Europe’s largest open air theatre 
Scarborough Open Air Theatre Sunday 14th August 2011, Tickets on sale NOW https://soat-secure.ticketline.co.uk

Today Scarborough Open Air Theatre proudly announces further esteemed acts to perform at Musicport@Scarborough Fair bringing together a folk and world music line-up to rival any other in the UK.  will join the already sensational bill featuring Bellowhead, Demon Barber Roadshow, Jim Moray plus much more on Sunday 14th August. Tickets onsale now at https://soat-secure.ticketline.co.uk

On Sunday 14th August Scarborough Fair will be a festival of folk and world music, bringing some of the mosttalented acts in folk and world music scene to a spectacular stage and embracing the historic summer fair. Foundedin the 13th Century, Scarborough Fair attracted thousands of tradesmen, buyers, sellers and pleasure-seekers to the British seaside town and today we announce further acts with a host of household names to wet any music fan’s appetite.

Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos are the London based high energy band storming the music circuit and leaving audiences breathless, elated and eager for more. Having picked up the award for Channel 4’s Evo Music Rooms in 2010, they have become best known for raising every spectator to their feet with ‘Balkan Gypsy Punk’. The band’s fusion of African, Latin and Middle Easter beats is guaranteed to blow the minds of all.

Having performed at Musicport back in 2005 alongside Bellowhead, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band will offer their unique sound of the brass and drum. Bringing the most talented musicians from the best local band of India’s Rajasthan,blending popular themes from Bollywood films, traditional Indian music and a distinctive Gypsy sound, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band will astound fairgoers with individual and unexpected sounds.

South Africa’s Mighty Zulu Nation bring their talented and spectacular performers to provide a vibrant spectacle.Their amazing voices, brilliant harmony and powerful dance sequences delight audiences creating a truly memorable experience for all onlookers.

Becoming something of a Musicport institution, Hull’s The Hut People will join the bill securing Musicport as the leader in supporting and encouraging local talent. Famed for receiving one of the best reactions ever witnessed at Musicport in previous years, this performance is one not to be missed. Another long time patron of Musicport,Robert Maseko Acoustic will be accompanied by guitarist Otis Tabasenge, he'll play the distinctive Congolese music he has become renowned for. Brilliant Sura Susso will also appear in what is set to be another astonishing solo set accompanied by the African harp and playing what has been described as a 5* show in R2, “brimming with imagination and delivered with virtuosic authority”.

Whisky Dogs are the Bridlington based Americana family band. Dad Pete, Mum Janey & teenage daughter Polly (who will play some of the meanest mandolin this side of the Atlantic) are always a big hit with audiences.The young band Sail Pattern mix sea shanties with a plethora of musical influences to the greatest effect and are deemed for success with wondrous reports already emerging off the back of their live performances.

Headlining the festival will be 5-times winners of 'BEST LIVE GROUP' BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Bellowhead.Formed in 2004 by renowned duo John Spiers (melodeon, concertina) and Jon Boden (vocals, fiddle), this 11-piecebig band fuses an exceptional amount of individual musical talent into something unique and truly uplifting.Bellowhead honour centuries of English musical tradition while at the same time constantly press forward into thefuture and they are sure to round off the day in fantastically customary style!

Jim Moray is a 27 year old singer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer who has created startlingly contemporary recordings of England’s traditional songs which have been described as the most significantdevelopment in folk music in the last 30 years.

English folk powerhouse The Demon Barbers, another winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for BEST LIVE BAND, team up with some of England's most exciting young traditional dancers to create a high energy music anddance spectacular to form the Demon Barber Roadshow. Bringing traditional English music and dance onto the main stages at festivals and arts centres, The Demon Barber Roadshow is not just a band. Their performance include a pair of Morris dancers, a five-man rapper team who pivot and somersault around the stage, a beatboxer accompanied by clogdancing for a show stopping climax.

Groundbreaking Scottish mavericks Shooglenifty push the word 'traditional' to its limits with their unique blend ofdance vibes and roots music. Genuinely genre defying, they have been described as everything from “acid croft” to “hypnofolkadelia”. Journalists may compete for words to describe, but all agree they are virtually impossible not to dance to and one of the best live bands of their genre around.

Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick will bring a startlingly intense reunion from this legendary, ground-breaking duo. Known as the ‘Godfather of Folk’, Carthy is a fitting addition to the bill as the key to Simon and Garfunkel’s legendaryre-mastering of the traditional ‘Scarborough Fair’ balled. All the old skills will be demonstrated with a new collection of traditional songs and instrumentals. For more than 40 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music's greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures.

Since being awarded BBC Radio “Yorkshire Songwriter of the Year” in August 2006 Anna Shannon has been forginga steady path into the folk singer songwriter scene, appearing at numerous venues and festivals including Whitby,Fylde, Wimbourne, Otley, Dent, Holmfirth, Cleckheaton and Beverly, where she has captivated her audiences with her original songs, covering a vast range of subjects.

Wearing their musical influence like a badge of pride, The Duncan McFarlane Band proudly proclaim on the backcover of their second album, All Rogues & Villains, “We class our music as Folk-Rock”. The unreconstructed sixpiecefrom Yorkshire make no bones about or excuses for their desire to produce memorable, attractive and Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tambolinos Jaipur Kawa Brass Band Mighty Zulu Nation danceable folk-fuelled rock that offers a knowing nod to the 70s masters. “Essentially this is solid, energetic English electric folk, full of pumping riffs and loads of energy”, fRoots.

Scarborough Open Air Theatre is proud to play host to a season of some of the most diverse and exuberant musicevents spanning across the months of July, August and September and firmly securing this spectacular venue as themust-visit musical destination of the summer. After a stunning refurbishment in 2010, a succession of stellar performances are herein planned to ruffle the Yorkshire Moors with something a little special and thus the Scarborough Open Air Theatre is reborn.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Scarborough Fair takes place Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th August at Scarborough Open Air Theatre and doors open at 12 noon.

Musicport tickets are priced at £25 and are on sale now.

Beached Festival tickets are priced at £15 and are on sale now