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International Roots & Acoustic Music Festival
29th June to 2nd July 2023
Tickets are now on sale for GTSF 2023, taking place from 29th June to 2nd July, again at our beautiful lakeside setting in Kirklington, Notts. We had great reviews of 2022 - including from RNR Magazine who say "excellent cast list...too many good performances to mention. It has become a great favourite and if you haven't been already, try it."
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Line-Up 2023
Here's the first of 2023's line-up of over 50 artists.
Raghu Dixit Project
Often hailed as India’s biggest cultural & musical export, Raghu Dixit’s unique brand of infectious, happy music transcends age, genre, and even language.
Saturday
Dog Show Sessions
An unmissable collaboration between West Country folk legends, Show of Hands, and Madrid-based Irish American roots quartet, Track Dogs. Six voices, fiddle, Cajon, trumpet, banjo, guitars, bass and mandolin.
Friday
Nine Below Zero
One of the most popular British Rhythm and Blues acts returns to headline Thursday Night Blues on the Lake Stage. "Superbly executed, highly infectious"
Record Collector
Thursday
Martin Harley Band
One of the UK's most celebrated blues musicians playing Thursday Night Blues with his band. “No doubt that he is a slide guitar master. He is the business” – Roots Magazine
Thursday
Tom Russell
From USA, journeyman singer, songwriter and ex-rancher known for chronicling the life of blue-collar America, and “should be on any list of great songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams”
Saturday
John Smith
Steeped in the lineage of British folk, one of the UK's finest guitarists and songwriters, his honey-on-gravel vocals have brought crowds the world over to pin-drop silence and rapturous applause. Playing as Trio and Solo.
Sunday
Track Dogs
A nice melting pot of styles, which have one thing in common: the groove. From Ireland, England and the USA and heading back to Southwell!
Friday
Hoth Brothers
USA's Hoth Brothers bring their folk/ country/ bluegrass music to Southwell "from the wilds of New Mexico, with a barbed lyrical punch"
Friday and Saturday
Veronica Sbergia & Max De Bernardi
The Italian duo finally make it to GTSF with their superb twist on country blues, ragtime and old time music from the US.
Thursday to Saturday
Bonfire Radicals
Birmingham's best kept musical secret. Vibrant and exciting, a musical blend of folk traditions full of originality and virtuosity
Saturday/Sunday
Gatehouse
Roscommon-based band Gatehouse are unashamedly trad and proud to present the music that has been the very heartbeat of their home turf – Connacht province of western Ireland – for generations
Friday
Winter Wilson
Everything that defines folk music and what makes it great, with an enviable reputations both as performers and songwriters
days TBC
Morton Valence
Intriguing alt-country duo from London who've been challenging categorisation for years, with an idiosyncratic songwriting style, very much informed by Americana, but with a heart and soul firmly rooted in the UK
day TBC
Becky Syson
When you hear Becky Syson perform live you'll understand why she's been described as 'Sublime Folk Rock'...
day TBC
