Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, Stornoway, Bellowhead and other leading lights of the folk revival will be playing a special Eden Session on Sunday July 1.
Also confirmed is the Mull Historical Society. Many more up-and-coming folk acts will playing throughout the day, giving the Session a one-day festival feel.
Frank Turner, who will be headlining with his band The Sleeping Souls, is a singer-songwriter from Winchester whose most recent album England Keep My Bones was released in June last year and hit number 12 in the UK album charts.
The record is his fourth studio album, following 2007’s Sleep is for the Week, 2008’s Love, Ire and Song and 2009’s Poetry of the Deed. Frank is former frontman of post-hardcore group Million Dead, who split in 2005. Despite an obvious move towards the folk genre, much of Frank’s solo work still displays his punk sensibilities.
Indie-folk four-piece Stornoway are due to release their new album this year, following the success of their 2010 debut record Beachcomber’s Windowsill which spawned the singles Zorbing and I Saw You Blink.
The Oxford band have toured around Europe and the US and opened Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage last year.
Eleven-piece contemporary folk band Bellowhead will also be playing on the day. In 2005 after playing only four gigs, the band won the Best Live Act category at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards before releasing their debut album Burlesque the following year.
They followed it up with 2008’s Matachin and 2010’s Hedonism. They are recording a new album this year.
Mull Historical Society is otherwise known as singer-songwriter Colin MacIntyre. Colin has released four albums under the Mull Historical Society name, the most recent entitled City Awakenings and released earlier this year. He has also recorded two albums under his own name.
The folk Eden Session joins musical comic Tim Minchin (Saturday June 23), dance supremo Example and grime artist Devlin (Saturday June 30), UK soul and hip-hop star Plan B (Friday July 6) and Blink-182 (Sunday July 8 - SOLD OUT) on the bill for the Eden Sessions in 2012. More acts will be announced soon.
Tickets to the folk Eden Session cost £35 plus booking fee and go on sale to Inside Track members today (Tuesday March 13), and on general sale at 6pm on Tuesday March 20. To book, contact the Eden Box Office on 01726 811972 or visit www.edensessions.com.
