With added Danny and the Champs!
On Sunday 13th October, The 7 Hills returns to Komedia with their strongest lineup to date at this year’s “Blues and Roots Festival.” Set across 3 stages, The Blues and Roots Festival is a further continuation of The 7 Hills mission statement: to showcase some of the finest musicians working today, paired alongside local legends and upcoming stars of the Somerset/ Wiltshire grassroots scene. This includes five days prior to the release of their long-awaited new album “You Are Not A Stranger Here,” Godfathers of Americana, Danny and The Champions of the World, as the fitting headliners.
“AMA UK Song of the Year” winner Lauren Housley and The Northern Cowboys & “2024 Blues Artist of The Year” (UK Blues Awards,) Mississippi MacDonald are joining the lineup for the first time. Reef’s Gary Stringer’s set follows a performance from Supalung, the Stroud-based ‘supergroup”. Robert Vincent returns this year for a full-band show on the Main Stage at 4pm. As well as Hannah White and Keiron Marshall’s Blues Band. Another act is Sweet Giant, booked off the back of their Glastonbury performance and Bath blues acts Kevin Brown and Innes Sibun are set to cameo on numerous sets throughout the day.
The whole shebang is the passion project of Noah and the Whale’s Matt Owens and Music Industry Veteran Jack Horner and to substantiate their belief that the 7 Hills ethos is to champion young musicians they’ve also teamed up with Music Workshop to curate an ‘as exciting and inclusive a lineup of artists as possible, giving many their first opportunity to play a festival’ and their sets are to be hosted throughout the day in the Electric Bar.
Tickets are priced at a steal at £35, the first 25 early bird tickets are £25, students and teenagers half-price and under 14’s go free and are available from the official website here.
