LIVE MUSIC
Confirmed for 2025
From traditional folk to the sounds of the 80s, our live music will take you on a journey through musical history.
D-Day Darlings
The UK’s premier wartime group, The D-Day Darlings, reached the 2018 finals in ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent.
As the best-selling female group to emerge from Britain’s Got Talent, the Darlings received a BRIT Certified Breakthrough Award in 2019 and have since performed alongside a host ofcelebrities such as Michael Ball and Pixie Lott, appearing on prime time shows for Radio 2, Heart FM, ITV and BBC, with a special performance for members of The Royal Family.
With their patriotic energy and passion for celebrating veterans through their work in the UK and overseas, as proud ambassadors of the Royal British Legion, the Darlings have earned a strong global appeal.
Supersonic Queen
Regarded as one of the UK’s premier queen tribute bands, Supersonic Queen bring all the spirit and majesty of Queen to audiences all over the world.
Performing in UK and international theatres and festivals, Supersonic Queen are known for their uniquely dynamic recreation of Queen’s iconic live performances. With an unparalleled energy and charisma this totally live 5-piece band deliver the best Queen tribute you’ll see today.
Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings
Following the release of their new album ‘Parlour Ballads’, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings return to the live arena with their unique brand of post- apocalyptic folk played in a traditional style vs. traditional folk played with post-apocalyptic swagger. Boden’s Waitsian parlour ballads and Napoleonic power-pop, will be performed alongside the band’s fifteen-year back catalogue of traditional and original songs and tunes.
The band combines a deep understanding of traditional music with musical audacity and theatrical brio, and feature the enormous talents of Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead), Rob Harbron (Leveret), Ben Nicholls (Seth Lakeman Band), Sally Hawkins (Bellowhead) and the vocals and pedal- steel guitar of cult singer-songwriter M.G. Boulter.
Good Habits
Good Habits are a dynamic Indie Folk band (Bonnie Schwarz, Pete Shaw and Jenny Walinetski) fusing virtuosic energy with vivid storytelling in a whirlwind of folky brilliance. With international acclaim, they’ve played Glastonbury, toured Australasia and the UK, with their album ‘Quarter-Life’ hitting the UK Top 40 Folk Charts. BBC Radio hails their “pinpoint precision vocals, hard-rocking accordion, and 21st-century musicianship at its best.”
Black Sheep
Black Sheep are Dorset’s legendary barn dance and ceilidh band, who have been rocking around Dorset and beyond for more than 40 years. Soaring crazy fiddle antics and powerful bellowing squeeze-boxes are underpinned firmly by rock solid drum lines and bass grooves. If you love Celtic music, get to the front of the stage!
The Branflakes
Festival favourites The Branflakes return to Chalke with their irreverent take on trad and Dixie tunes, bringing high energy bounce and cheesy swing. With big, bold brass and the sound of the banjo, they will be sure to put a smile on your face.
Uptown Swing
“The Dynamaestro” Don Pucci is the founder and artistic director of The Uptown Swing Dance Company and Nighthawks Festival, and a widely respected DJ, dance teacher and events organiser within the international swing dance and vintage community. As a DJ, he is a firm favourite of many. An avid collector of 78rpm records and specialist in swing, jazz and blues from the 30s and 40s, he seeks out the finest tunes and gives them life, continually building his collection of danceable music. A highly sought after DJ for many events across the UK and Europe, such as the Summer Jamboree, Friskin’ The Whiskers, Herrang Dance Camp, and many music festivals, he keeps the dancefloor filled and frolicking.
Bird Tunes
Fiddle player and composer Miranda Rutter is joined by Rob Harbron on concertina to present Bird Tunes, an exquisite new suite of folk tunes with birdsong at their core. Miranda has crafted every tune in the project out of fragments of birdsong which she recorded on her phone during woodland walks near her home. The suite is both a love-song to the intricacy and beauty of birdsong, and a timely reminder of the struggles with habitat loss and human-made dangers faced by migrating birds today.
Still-Moving DJs
The Still-Moving DJs are a lively, unique and alternative DJ duo with a well-stocked but carefully chosen selection of music by great musicians, live percussion, ship lanterns, original records, gramophones, tankards and… dinosaurs!
Suthering
Evocative and distinctive, folk duo Suthering (Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall) transport audiences with their exquisite vocal harmonies and their message of hope during hard times. Described as “Two excellent singers” by BBC Radio’s Genevieve Tudor, their harmonies soar above the cascading piano and delicate, fingerstyle guitar.
Known for their chemistry and humour on stage, they effortlessly intertwine their important messages about the state of our climate, social conscience, and the importance of community and connecting with nature.
