Not a member yet? Click here to register.
Forgotten your password? Request a new one here.
|
|
Festival 2011 Line-Up |
 |
|
Festival 2008
|
|
As the festival has grown year by year, so have the costs, overheads and health and safety requirements. It is getting harder and harder to keep on top of these so to keep this festival free we need your support! For more details of our support opportunities please click here. |
Guests Online: 1
Members Online: 0
Total Members: 852
Newest Member: Snattebavitle
|
|
 Kelvedon Festival has been given the go ahead for 2012.
This year's date will be Saturday 14th July.
Hope to see you there. |
|
A huge thanks goes to Jonathan Doyle for supplying this years batch of photos - great work! You can view the gallery here.
|
|
|
A BIG THANK YOU from the organisers |
|
A massive thanks to this year's performers - on the main stage: The Blockheads, Automatic Slim, Exposé, Surfquake, Housework, About Eight, Who's Driving? Bear's Driving! and Broken Heads - you were all amazing. And on the Essex Rocks stage - We Are Embassy, Gulls, Animal Noise, the Strangerhood, Drive Through Therapy, the Jorneta Stream, the 633 and the Overwrought.
What an amazing crowd - you guys rock - we hope you all had a ...great time.Thanks for everyone involved in the clean up last night and this morning; looks like a recreation ground again. Kelvfest is a family friendly event for our village to be proud of, and is run by volunteers, supported by local sponsors – a big thank you to each & every one of you for making the festival possible.
Special mention to Event Sound & Light for the superb sound quality. To Tony & Lloyd for MC-ing. To the backstage crew and stewards - you are the unsung heroes. To Sally & her team in the bar, incredible job, and to all of you who bought your drinks from the bar... you are the guys who have ensured we have the money to go ahead next year. And thanks to everyone we've forgotten to mention; luv ya!
WHAT A GREAT DAY... pics to follow soon |
|
|
To everyone going to Kelvedon Festival. |
|
We hope you all have a wonderful time at the 13th Kelvedon Free Music Festival. All the bands are raring to go, and there are lots of other attractions and activities to keep you all entertained throughout the day. Kelvfest is a family friendly event for our village to be proud of, and is run by volunteers, supported by local sponsors – a big thank you to them all for making the festival possible.
Please do your bit to support our festival. Buy your drinks at our beer tent, put money in the donation buckets and have a look at our merchandising in the information tent. Without your support each year, it would not be possible for us to continue to stage a free festival.
Most of all let’s make this a top day for everyone. Respect each other, keep the event family friendly, and drink responsibly.
Get up and dance, and HAVE A GREAT DAY.
|
|
| With little over a month to the festival, one of our main stage bands split up so had to pull out. After many frantic phone calls, and within 24 hours of the cancellation, we were able to announce that the slot has been filled by WHO'S DRIVING? BEAR'S DRIVING! Not only a cool local addition to the line up, but also an incredible high quality much revered Scuzz-tastic band! Thanks AJ, thanks lads! Link |
|
 JOIN US at various gigs on the ROAD TO KELVEDON … raising funds for the 2011 Kelvedon Free Music Festival
Thursday 16th June
Essex Rocks @ the Soundhouse, Colchester.
Thursday 23rd June
Essex Rocks @ the Soundhouse, Colchester.
Saturday 2nd July
Essex Rocks 5th birthday @ Colchester Arts Centre
with Cav OK, Wae and support.
|
|
|
2011 Battle of The Bands - Update |
|
Congratulations to Broken Heads, winners of the 2011 Kelvedon Festival Battle of the Bands competition.
On Friday 4th March five local bands competed for the honour of opening this year's festival. As before, the standard was amazingly high, but Colchester based post punk/indie four piece Broken Heads emerged as popular winners, despite a broken bass drum! They will play a half hour slot on the main stage on Saturday 9th July.
Thank you to the other four competing bands for making the competition so enjoyable:
Ninety-Three ('93)
Infuriate
Forgetting the Fallen
Keep ‘em Keen
|
|
Kelvedon Festival 2011 is on Saturday 9th July
We are proud to announce that this year's headliners are THE BLOCKHEADS With a string of classics including Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Reasons to be Cheerful and Billericay Dickie, the Blockheads promise to be our biggest and best band to date.
They will be ably supported by AUTOMATIC SLIM *** EXPOSÉ *** HOUSEWORK *** BROKEN HEADS *** SURFQUAKE *** ABOUT EIGHT *** compered by TONY WINN
The Essex Rocks stage will again feature eight of the county's finest rock bands... THE GULLS *** the633 *** THE STRANGERHOOD *** DRIVE THROUGH THERAPY *** ANIMAL NOISE *** THE JORNETA STREAM *** THE OVERWROUGHT *** WE ARE EMBASSY
STOP PRESS!... and a big thanks to WHO'S DRIVING? BEAR'S DRIVING!, who have stepped in to complete the main stage line up - THANK YOU and BIG LOVE! |
|
|
More photos of Festival 2010 |
|
| A huge thanks goes to Foggyhat for supplying this batch of photos - great work! You can view the gallery here. |
|
|
Kelvedon Free Music Festival 2010 |
|
|
Festival 2010 - Photos and Video |
|
A huge thanks goes to Jonathan Doyle for supplying this years batch of photos - great work! You can view the gallery here.
More photos will be added shortly.
|
|
|
|
Essex Rocks Stage Sponsor |
|
|
If you would like to book a stall at the 2012 Kelvedon Free Music Festival, please download and complete this form.
Trade Stall Booking Form |
Colchester Hotels
|
|
