Scott Wainwright, Ian Bartholomew

Scott Wainwright is certainly a blues musician to be reckoned with; hailing from the Yorkshire Delta, he is someone who can rummage around his soul to give us real authenticity just like bluesmen of yore. But I doubt even greats such as Robert Johnson could have pulled a bit of beatboxing out of their battered hats in the easy manner of Wainwright. For this is a fella who really manages to enhance his live stuff with elements of folk, gospel and country and even a bit of Captain Beefheart when the mood takes him. He's a great raconteur too, down to earth and funny with it.

'Bluesman Scott Wainwright is a one-man tour de force with great slide-guitar, harmonica and rasping vocals and his between-song banter, including how he invented hip-hop on his allotment is a riot'. NE Volume

Opening for Scott will be Ian Bartholomew who is a member of Teesside based folk band Peg Powler. They released their debut album, Northern Lines in July 2016 and it was described by Bob Fischer on BBC Tees as - 'beautifully dark and twisted folk music with a macabre streak a mile wide