Sweeps Festival Music Schedule
Sweeps Festival Music Schedule
Sweeps Festival Music Schedule
Sweeps Festival Music Schedule
Sweeps Festival Music Schedule
A guide to all the great bands and musical acts performing at this year's Rochester Sweeps Festival.
Here's your guide to all the great bands and musical acts that will be headlining this year's Rochester Sweeps Festival.
The Headliners:
Click on this link for their biographies.
Check out the Sweeps Festival music schedule below to find out who is playing where and when during the weekend!
Gordon House Hotel: Pre Festival event with Sur Les Docks (WR), 9pm;
Rising Sun: HogEye Men (TF), 7.30pm;
10.45am - Guildhall Museum Forecourt: The Mayor of Medway will officially open the festival, which will be followed by a dance showcase.
11am
Castle Gardens Stage: Ravella Bridge (FR)
Crown Stage: Songwriters' Den on the Road (S)
Boley Hill Stage: Mokum (CF)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Fire & Ice (1915) (TF)
Eastgate Quarter Stage: The Bounty Hounds (C)
11.30am
Boley Hill Stage: Paul Corcoran (S)
Cathedral Crypt (Ithamar Chapel): The Ashen Keys (IF)
12pm
Castle Gardens Stage: The Fabulous Fezheads (TD)
Boley Hill Stage: Silver Darlings (TF)
Eastgate Quarter Stage: Lemon & Paice (IF)
12.15pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: The Caramellos (CF)
12.30pm
Eagle Tavern: Skinners Rats (TF)
Coopers Arms: Ian Petrie & Sue Hudson (WR)
1pm
Castle Gardens Stage: The Old Country Crows (WR)
Eastgate Quarter Stage: The Beard Conspiracy (WR)
Boley Stage: Kitka (TD) (to 1.15pm)
Ye Arrow: Homemade Jam;
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: The Treehuggers (S)
The Granville: Tangled Elbow (WR)
Gordon House Hotel: The Bounty Hounds (C)
1.15pm
Boley Hill Stage: Raven Drummers (P)
1.30pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Jonica Love (S)
Rising Sun: Luna Barge (IF)
2pm
Boley Stage: Kitka (TD); (1.50pm)
Oliver's Bar & Restaurant: Rosie Eade Folk Pixie (S)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: CJ & Dave Reay (CF)
2.15pm
Castle Gardens Stage: The Lowly Strung (B)
Boley Stage: Fire & Ice (1915) (TF)
Cathedral Crypt (Ithamar Chapel): Mokum (CF)
Eastgate Quarter Stage: Richie Triangle (IF)
2.45pm
Boley Hill Stage: The Treehuggers (S)
3pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Paul Corcoran (S)
Three Sheets to the Wind: Raven Drummers (P)
3.15pm
Castle Gardens Stage: Silver Darlings (TF)
Boley Stage: The Caramellos (CF)
Rising Sun: Stuart ‘Sweetchunks’ Blakeledge (FC)
3.35pm
Eastgate Quarter Stage: Pretending People (FC)
3.45pm
Boley Stage: Lemon & Paice (IF)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Fire & Ice (1915) (TF)
4pm
Castle Gardens Stage: Sur Les Docks (WR)
Eagle Tavern: Thee Scarecrows (FC)
Ye Arrow: The Fabulous Fezheads (TD)
4.30pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Pytchwood (CF)
Rising Sun: Devil’s Prefects (FC)
Boley Stage: Capella (TF)
5pm
Oliver’s Bar & Restaurant: Henty & English (WR)
The Granville: The Beard Conspiracy (WR)
Gordon House Hotel Marquee: Raven Drummers (P)
6pm
Rising Sun – Open singaround
Gordon House Hotel - The Ashen Keys (IF)
8pm
Gordon House Hotel: The Lowly Strung (B) plus Sur Les Docks (WR)
8pm
Three Sheets to the Wind: Shanakee (CB) plus Gypskazz (WR)
Coopers Arms: Tangled Elbow (WR)
Two Brewers: Ian Petrie Band (TF)
11am
Eastgate Quarter Stage: Siren (CB)
Crown Stage: Songwriters' Den on the Road (S)
Castle Gardens Stage: Washed Up Jug Band (WR)
Boley Hill Stage: Esperanza (WR)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Rosie Eade Folk Pixie (S)
11.30am
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: CJ & Dave Reay (CF)
11.45am
Boley Hill Stage: Mokum (CF)
12pm
Castle Gardens Stage: The Hot Rats (WR)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: David James Rumsey (S)
Eastgate Quarter Stage: Baile Galego en Londres (TD)
12.30pm
Gordon House Hotel: Shanakee (CB)
Three Sheets to the Wind: Milton Hide(IF)
Eagle Tavern: Henty & English (WR)
Coopers Arms: Rosie Eade Folk Pixie (S)
Boley Hill Stage: Forever Blue (S)
1pm
Eastgate Quarter Stage: Crisis (CB)
Boley Hill Stage: Will Allen (TF)
Ye Arrow: The Bounty Hounds (C)
The Granville: Richie Triangle (IF)
Rochester Castle Gardens Stage: The Fabulous Fezheads (TD)
1.15pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Dave Surman (TF)
1.45pm
Boley Hill Stage: McManigan Academy of Irish Dancers (TD)
2pm
Oliver's Bar & Restaurant: Siren (CB)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Stompin’ Dave (FC)
2.15pm Rachel Lowrie & James Fromow (S)
2.20pm
Eastgate Quarter Stage: Washed Up Jug Band (WR)
2.30pm
Castle Gardens Stage: Baile Galego en Londres (TD)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Forever Blue (S)
3pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Esperantza (WR)
Boley Hill Stage: Pytchwood (CF)
Gordon House Hotel: McManigan Academy of Irish Dancers (TD)
Rising Sun: Mokum (CF)
3.15pm
Castle Gardens Stage: Crisis (CB)
3.40pm
Boley Stage: Milton Hide (IF)
3.35pm
Eastgate Quarter Stage: TwoManTing (WR)
3.45pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Henty & English (WR)
4pm
Eagle Tavern: Triality (TF)
Ye Arrow: Skinners Rats (TF)
4.15pm
Castle Gardens Stage: Sur Les Docks (WR)
4.30pm
City Wall Wine Bar: Horse Thieves (IF)
Boley Hill Stage: Baile Galego en Londres (TD)
5pm
Oliver’s Bar & Restaurant: Stompin Dave (FC)
6pm
The Granville: Bellibone Rig (CB)
7.30pm
Rising Sun – The Beard Conspiracy (WR)
8.30pm
Gordon House Hotel: The Singing Loins (IF) and Friends plus The Dredgeremen (IF)
Coopers Arms: TwoManTing (WR)
Two Brewers: Triality (TF)
8am
Rising Sun: Early morning coffee and bacon butty, breakfast after Jack in the Green Awakening
11am
Castle Gardens Stage: Stompin Dave (FC)
Eastgate Quarter Stage: Ravens Wedding (FR)
Boley Hill Stage: HogEye Men (TF)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Morrigan (TF)
Crown Stage: Songwriters' Den on the Road (S)
Cathedral Crypt (Ithamar Chapel): Mokum (CF)
11.30am
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: CJ (CF)
11.45am
Boley Stage: Henry Sparks (S)
12pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Rachel Lowrie & James Fromow (S)
12.15pm
Cathedral Crypt (Ithamar Chapel): Four Gone Confusion (TF)
Castle Gardens Stage: Shanakee (CB)
Eastgate Quarter Stage: HogEye Men (TF)
12.30pm
Gordon House Hotel: The Hot Rats (WR)
Eagle Tavern: Ravella Bridge (FR)
Coopers Arms: Bellibone Rig (CB)
Boley Hill Stage: Capella (TF)
1pm
Eastgate Quarter Stage – The Tribal Banshees (TD)
Ye Arrow: Ian Petrie Band (TF)
Rising Sun: Chill out BBQ and Singaround
Three Sheets to the Wind: Hartley Singers (TF)
1.15pm
Eastgate Quarter Stage: The Old Country Crows (WR)
Boley Hill Stage: Pretending People (FC)
1.30pm
Castle Gardens Stage: The Beard Conspiracy (WR)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Henry Sparks (S)
2pm
Oliver's Bar & Restaurant: Skinners Rats (TF)
Boley Hill Stage: Jonica Love (S)
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Pytchwood (CF)
The Granville: Morrigan (TF)
2.15pm
Three Sheets to the Wind: HogEye Men (TF)
2.30pm
Boley Hill Stage: Mokum (CF)
Castle Gardens Stage: Gypskazz (WR)
3pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Four Gone Confusion (TF)
Boley Hill Stage: tbc
Rising Sun: Sweep Performers Sundown Soiree
3.45pm
City Wall Wine Bar Stage: Capella (TF)
4pm
Castle Gardens Stage: Ravens Wedding (FR)
4.30pm
City Wall Wine Bar: CJ & Dave Reay (CF)
Boley Hill Stage: tbc
Rochester Cathedral is proud to host music for the Sweeps Festival in 2023. It does cost the Cathedral a significant amount of funds for preparation and staffing etc and they would request that people attending any musical concerts may care to consider making a donation towards the cost of running these extra events.
