Teenage Cancer Trust Live

Hot on the heels of its 2007 debut, the Teenage Cancer Trust sessions take the stage in the Wold Top Performance Marquee on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

EVERY DAY 6 YOUNG PEOPLE DISCOVER THEY HAVE CANCER - 2,100 PER YEAR !

TCT is a London based charity which raises money by various means to build specialist wards attached to NHS hospitals to accommodate teenagers and young people suffering with cancer. Supporters of the Trust include Roger Daltrey, Mark Knopfler and Fairport Convention. Its many fund-raising events have involved the likes of The Who, Kaiser Chiefs, and Arctic Monkeys - they do however rely greatly on regional fund raising groups for support.

Programmed by Hunsley Acoustic Music, (a very big thank you to Will Richardson for the tireless work!), All the artists donate their time and energy for free to raise money for this very worthy cause. The artists are the best of regional, unsigned talent. Join us for an afternoon of great music and camaraderie – and leave a small (or large!) donation in the collection buckets too. The aim is to promote awareness of the need for a TCT ward at the new Castle Hill Cancer Hospital in nearby Cottingham. Currently all Hull and East Riding patients use facilities at St James Hospital Leeds.

Artists confirmed to date include:

Charlie Daykin, Hall Brothers, Graham Hodge, The Neumes, The Durbevilles, Nick Stubbs, Union Central, Stony Paul Liddell, Shaun T Hunter Band, Jess Bannister, Mean Eyed Cat.

The programme to date.... (the programme is subject to confirmation in due course)

 

Saturday 21st June 2008
Time Artists Venue
1pm-1.45pm The Durbervilles Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
2pm-2.45pm The Hall Brothers and John Carey Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
3pm-3.45pm Graham Hodge Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
4pm-4.45 The Neumes Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
5pm-5.45 Charlie Daykin and Michelle Plum Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
  TBC Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
6pm-6.45 Nick Stubbs Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
     
Sunday 22nd June
Time Artists Venue
1pm-1.45pm Union Central Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
2pm-2.45pm Stony Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
3pm-3.45pm Paul Liddell Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
4pm-4.45pm Shaun T Hunter Band Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
5pm-5.45pm Jess Bannister Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee
6pm-6.45pm Mean Eyed Cat Festival Village - Wold Top Marquee

 


STONY Eleven years of constant touring, recording and performing has seen the acoustic-based duo's reputation as songwriters, and as one of the hottest live acts on the new-acoustic music scene develop and mature. Stony's mixture of often driving piano and acoustic guitar, combined with beautiful vocal harmonies has a very distinctive and original live sound.

THE HALL BROTHERS generally fall into the singer-songwriter category, with high-quality, intelligent songs performed with a largely acoustic backing and are well-known for their wide-ranging musical styles and themes. Their songs deal with everything from love to politics without ever getting too earnest! An acoustic rock act.

THE NEUMES are a mostly very young female band playing some unusual self-penned material on a variety of instruments. With a unique fusion of pop, jazz, folk and rock, sisters Charlotte, Emily and Eleanor, who front the five-piece outfit, show a maturity well beyond their years.

GRAHAM HODGE, solo acoustic guitarist & singer, Graham has been playing since the 60's. He also plays with band Gabriel and is currently recording his first solo album.

PAUL LIDDELL At only 25 years old, Paul is already somewhat a veteran of the acoustic music world, having released two solo albums and an EP with his band ‘Delphians'. Over the years Paul has been playing, he has been courted by many record labels including RCA, Independiente, and EMI, but has remained independent and unsigned throughout. He feels working independently gives an artist great freedom and control over their music.

SHAUN T HUNTER Born in Helensburgh, Scotland, he began playing music at eleven years old Inheriting his Uncles record collections his first love affair with a record was upon hearing 'Tea For The Tillerman' by Cat Stevens, early Beatles records, The Temptations and The Eagles 'Hotel California' would bellow out for days, interspersed with lots of indoor football, courtesy of a tennis ball, in a small council house dining room. He'd always been a songwriter, always had an affinity for great songs, great writers and always marvelled that no matter how contemporary you endeavour to sound you are only left with 'the song'...this was where his first engagement with the organic acoustic scene grew. ' Real songs ' played by ' real people ' for ' real people '...music and the spoken word appreciated with a congruous silence, erupting only after a song or piece is finished, no false promises of shadowy A&R figures looming in the background, no talk of 'how do we market this'...only of the elation and sharing of someone's expression and performance in an age where he honestly believes, we have in large droves become desensitised, there remains something pure and intangible, something, without sounding trite, quite magical... where music is its own reward.