Fun and music for all the family with good view of castle
AFAMILY-FRIENDLY music festival, held on fields with great views of Rhuddlan Castle, returns for its third year on Saturday, May 27.
Rhuddfest, on Morfa Lodge Farm, with easy access off the A547, offers live music, a licensed bar, caterers, and plenty of children’s activities, with a free car park open from 10.30am. The festival runs from 11am until midnight.
This is a true grassroots music festival, full of homegrown talent and raising awareness and funds for Mind and Childline.
All proceeds from the giant pie face and welly throw (with prizes for adults and children) will be divided between the two chosen charities.
There should be something for everyone with the varied line-up of musical acts.
North Wales seven-piece funk and soul party outfit Yubaba is guaranteed to get you moving and grooving.
Birmingham-based three-piece Blue Nation grew up in the 1990s with alt.rock and Brit Pop, and create a riffbased rock which doesn’t fit neatly into any genre, and is all the more memorable for it. Their current influences are Rival Sons and Black Keys.
Straight Jacket Legends from Holyhead offer a fusion of catchy power punk songs, orchestral power and dangerously slick harmonies.
Hedge Gods was formed in 2012, and consists of three musicians with extensive experience and an ear for the unusual, who combine double bass, acoustic guitar and hand-drumming to weave sonic tapestries of questionable sanity and undeniable appeal,
The band describes itself as a warpdriven analogue dance band, but continues to defy categorisation.
For a change of pace, family trio Blue Genes, which consists of mum Kay, dad Stephen, and 13-year-old daughter Megan, play contemporary country, roots and Americana, with a variety of original material plus clas- sic and contemporary covers. Kay and Stephen have performed as the duo Calon since the mid 1990s, touching on all genres of music.
Other acts featured include female four-piece rock band War on Juliet and Rhyl-based Irish folk music band The Old Scrotes, as well as many others.
As well as the music, there will be plenty of crafts for the younger ones, face painting, and look out for the mascots.
Chainsaw sculptor Ian Murray will create works of art from natural resources, and you can try your hand at the coconut shy.
Early-bird tickets are available at Holland Hotel, Llanfachraeth: Tues: Poker. Sat: Live music. Sun: Quiz night. T:01407 238181 Black Boy Inn, Caernarfon: Third Thursday of month: Folk night. T: 01286 673604. Y Pengwern, Llan Ffestiniog: Sat, May 27, at 7.30pm, Amazing magic & mind-reading with Magic Frank. £10 incls. light refreshments & the Magic Music quiz. For tickets please call 07799 885138. Edinburgh Castle, Holyhead: Fri: Karaoke. Weds & Sun: Carvery. T: 01407 762015. Llanberis Social Club: Live ent: Sat, May 13, Natasha Lyndsey. T: 01286 872027. Douglas Arms, Bethesda: Quiz Night second Tues of £10, and prices at the gate are £12.50. Under-14s go free, but must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
For more information about the festival’ check the website: www. rhuddfest.co.uk.
If you would like to perform at next year’s festival, you can also apply on the same website. month, at 7.30pm. Proceeds to Moel y Ci. T: 01248 600219. Liverpool Arms, Menai Bridge: Weds: Quiz 9pm. Sun: Music Quiz 9.30pm. T: 01248 712453. Mountain Rangers Club, Rhosgadfan: Live ent: Sat, May 13, Tudur. T: 07833 312481. The Valley Anglesey: Last Friday of month: 9pm, free live music. Sunday Carvery 12pm-4pm. New for 2017: Garden Bar. T: 01407 740203 Breeze Hill Hotel, Benllech: Thurs’s 9pm: Quiz night for local charities. T: 01248 852308. The Owain Glyndŵr, Llanddona: Tues, Fish chips & peas. Fri, Curry night. £5 each from 5-8pm. T: 01248 810710. Tap & Spile, Bangor: Tuesdays, free entry prize quiz 9.30pm. T: 01248 370835. French Conversation on Thurs 7pm-9pm, (intermediates and above). For more details please email: jannieu@tiscali.co.uk The Bull Inn, Bethesda: Weds 9pm, Jam Session. T: 01248 600438. Anglesey Arms, Caernarfon: Thurs, quiz night, Fri, live music. T: 01286 672158. Anglesey Arms, Menai Bridge: Thurs: Fun quiz 9pm. T: 01248 712305. The North Wales Guitar Circle meet here at 7.45pm on the second Tues of each month. For more details please visit northwalesguitarcircle.co.uk