WELL-KNOWN ARTISTS SET FOR FESTIVAL

MORE big names have been added to the line-up for Birmingham’s Moseley Folk and Arts Festival 2022. Running from September 2-4 at Moseley Park and Pool, the annual event will see appearances from Jethro Tull, Dr John Cooper Clarke, The Coral, Midlake, Simon Armitage and Vashti Bunyan. They join Supergrass, Kurt Vile, The Weather Station and Bess Atwell, who will be taking to the stage on opening night alongside LYR (featuring Armitage and musicians Richard Walters and Patrick Pearson), North of England troubadour Martin Stephenson, and the quasipsychedelic Novelty Island. Day two will see bluesman Seasick Steve joined by a capella folk quartet The Longest Johns – who are at the forefront of the current sea shanty revival – singersongwriter Billie Marten, and Ruarri Joseph’s ‘swampgrunge blues’ trio William The Conqueror.

The Saturday also finds the festival welcoming Poet Laureate Armitage, multiBBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nominees Gilmore and Roberts, songwriter Reg Meuross, Warwickshire’s Ellie Gowers, and folk duo The Magpies (aka Celtic Connections Award-winning guitarist/ singer Bella Gaffney and fiddle-player Holly Brandon). The festival concludes on the Sunday with British progressive rock luminaries Jethro Tull; The Coral, fresh from UK dates marking the 20th anniversary of their selftitled debut album; and Texan band Midlake.

Meanwhile, ‘punk poet’ legend Dr John Cooper Clarke (pictured) and Vashti Bunyan (discussing her memoir, Wayward) top-line the Arts Stage; with Scottish musician Alasdair Roberts, US artist Diana Jones and folk duo Megson taking to the chilled Kitchen Garden Stage.

For tickets and more details, see www.moseleyfolk.co.uk