Sodbury Festival

TWELVE HOURS OF MUSIC AT SODBURY FESTIVAL 2022

A 12-hour extravaganza featuring local musicians, bands and performers is promised at the Sodbury Fest taking place on Saturday July 2. The festival also promises beer, cider, gin and food to make the music go with a swing. The music starts at 11 am at Chipping Sodbury Rugby Club in The Ridings, Chipping Sodbury and goes right through to 11 pm with original music and cover versions for all to enjoy. It is a one-day revival of the successful Chipping Sodbury Beer & Music Festival run for many years by the Rotary Club of Yate, who have now handed it over to the Rugby Club. Events could not be held in recent years due to Covid-19. Nick Cragg, of Country Property, who is the festival music co-ordinator and will be MC on the day, said: “From a local singer-songwriter performing her debut album through a steel band providing Caribbean influences to an evening of rock anthems it is promising to be a brilliant day with something for everyone.

“It will be great to get everyone back together again at this local event after a few years when music events had to be cancelled. We are welcoming local food and drink producers and there will be a souvenir brochure of the event for people to buy.” First on at 11 am will be 16-year-old Yasmine K-D and her musicians. Her brand of alternative pop indie and electronic music features on her debut album The Thread, which is scheduled for release in August. Her self-penned songs about life as a teenager in today’s world is a chance to catch a future star.

At Noon local four-piece band Decanter, led by Alex Tyler will take to the stage followed at 1pm by Room 6, a female-fronted band entertaining with pop covers that you might find on your Spotify playlist. Covers band, The Peppercorns take to the stage at 2pm with their stripped-down acoustic versions of crowd pleasers from Rod Stewart, Oasis, The Killers, Oasis, Bon Jovi and many more. Guitarist Simon J Lucas and vocalist Paul Verstraeten are regular performers around Bristol and released their covers album “Under The Covers” in 2007.

From 3pm there will be a carnival atmosphere with the 15-piece Bristol-based Community Steel Band and they make way at 4pm for the first set from Jazz Funk band Freeze. At 5pm the festival switches to dance with Street Cred, a local troupe that recently moved their rehearsals to Chipping Sodbury, before Freeze return to the stage for their second set.

From 7pm the FooPhonics bring the music of the Foo Fighters and Stereophonics to the festival. The band, who have 10 years of gigging under their belt, were previously known as Dockside.

From 8pm For The Record, regular performers who know how to get a party started will perform covers from the 1970s to the present day and at 9.30pm Liquor & Poker will be rocking out with everyone’s favourites to complete the evening+.

Tickets have gone on sale at www.ticketsource.co.uk/sodfest2022.