AmericanaFest UK happening ONLINE this week
26-01-2021For the past 5 years in January AmericanaFest UK has welcomed visitors (including Sedate Bookings) from across the UK, Europe, USA, Canada and Australia for a very joyous week. It sets us up for the year ahead – the festivals, the stages, the tours, the releases.
When we gathered in January 2020 we had no idea that in just a fe weeks time, these plans and aspirations for 2020 would be pulled right out from underneath us by a global pandemic. In the past ten months we have all suffered from the effects of lockdown, social distancing and everything that has come with it. We have also learnt, rested, and mourned – but we have adapted and kept on creating, because that is what we do in the sector. We create.
The Americana Music Association UK has decided after much deliberations to go head and go ONLINE and STAY CONNECTED with all of us. We're thrilled by this decision and with great joy we're happy to see a number of Sedate's artists on the line-up (see below). The event is starting TODAY and will run until the 28th of January. More info and tickets: https://www.americanafestuk.com
TUESDAY JANUARY 26
STAGE 1 #SAVEOURVENUES MVT STAGE
20:00: THIRTY TIGERS #STORYTELLERS GUEST SHOWCASE: DARLINGSIDE, TRÉ BURT a.o.
STAGE 2 #THE HACKNEY VENUES STAGE
22:45: LOOSE RECORDS GUEST SHOWCASE: JOANA SERRAT a.o.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27
STAGE 1 #SAVEOURVENUES MVT STAGE
18:30: JUDY BLANK
19:00: THE HANGING STARS
20:30: YEP ROC RECORDS GUEST SHOWCASE: MICHAELE ANNE a.o.
21:30: DUSTBOWL REVIVAL
STAGE 2 #THE HACKNEY VENUES STAGE
19:30: COME HEAR NC / VISIT North Carolina GUEST SHOWCASE: AMERICAN AQUARIUM, JIM LAUDERDALE a.o.
THURSDAY JANUARY 28
UK AMERICANA AWARDS, hosted by BOB HARRIS
• AUSTIN LUCAS - Already Dead nominated for International Song of the Year
• THE SECRET SISTERS - Hand Over My Heart nominated for International Song of the Year
• AMERICAN AQUARIUM - Lamentations nominated for International Album of the Year