Preview: Wonky Donk Festival 2012
June 27, 2012Hall Road, Lytchett Matravers
14th April 2012
SATURDAY 14TH JULY, All for JUST £10!!! (Day ticket includes Overnight Camping) limited to 499 tickets (& Going like Hotcakes), Don’t Miss out on this one!
So what’s it all about?…
AN UNFORGETTABLE FOLK FUELLED FANTASTIC ONE NIGHT FESTY!!! with nonstop entertaining music on a lovely Donkey farm, a great friendly atmosphere, a licensed bar serving lashings of ale, beer, cider + more, PLUS tasty fresh tea over a roaring fire, plenty of tasty grub & overnight camping!
On-site near Poole (Lychett Matravers), this second (re-vamped, new & improved) WONKEYDONK 2012 fest promises to be a cracker, with a fantastic set of lively bands on the stage this year including;
THE JACK RATTS (Kicking Pirate Fuelled Dorset Cider Folk! with rusty old banjos, creepy eye patches, eerie fiddles, piercing mandolins, lethal hooks for hands, dusty old accordions & a bag of stolen swag; cracking out everything from Bluegrass, to traditional English, Irish & European folk, with Jigs, Reels & polkaís; with a bottle of rum on stand-by)
QUINN’S QUINNEY The One & Only Superfun Kingpin Pioneers of Skiffle! bashing out cracking tunes from the “My Old Mans a Dustman” era through to ’93 summer of love, with epic medleys & great jokes, all with acoustic guitars, mandolins, old leather suitcases, whistles, kazooís & watering cans, This is an act like no other! Get ready to be entertained!
CASH CONVERTED Prepare to be jetted back to the days of the Man in Black himself! with this Awesome Johnny Cash tribute act! A full kicking band with double bass, electric guitars & banging drums, this will put you straight back in that Ring of Fire!
MILK MACHINE Sit back & get set! as fantastic tracks (you may once have admired) emerge from the Milk Machine as youíve never heard them before, an experiment that just keeps getting better & an experience youíll never forget! With members of Quinn’s Quinney, Hawkeye & Hoe, Jack Ratts & Pronghorn – this is not to be missed!
SLAP DASH PICKS A rock ‘n Roll Rollercoaster, climb in the back of a BRAND NEW CADILLAC & get ready to return down the highway route 66 of hits & straight back in to the era of Hank Marvin, the King & Buddy Holly, this band are like a rocking rolling jukebox of brilliance!)
THE MADDISON TARHEELS True & Original, this fantastic three piece is a tightly woven wonder-web of stomping bluegrass, with banjo, double bass, guitar, washboard & traditional lyrics that will raise your spirits as high as that 80 % bottle of old Whiskey Moonshine.
THE JIMMY HILLBILLIES Prepare to take a journey to the Deep South! were the land is fair & bright; & Nonstop kicking Hillbilly washboard bashing Folk antics are mandatory while Pipe smoking football pundits with big chins are demigods on permanent vacation! Let the party begin.
THE ADMIRAL SHINEYSIDES A fantastically talented, unique act who blend original masterpieces in to their own shiney side formula, they will take you on a journey over lands where dogs hound you & across the sky where the Ghost Riders haunt you, get ready for one hell of a musical ride).
All this for JUST £10 Day Ticket!!! (includes Overnight Camping).
As stated this Annual event is limited to only 499 tickets & you can pick them up on-line at http://www.hogbitch.co.uk/ (Search WONKYDONK) or from BIG BROTHER RECORDS (379 Ashley Road, Upper Parkstone, 01202 731419) for any more information contact hawkeyesbanjo@hotmail.com.