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Edward II kick off the festival season at The Big Session Leicester!

Big Session FestivalEdward II kick off a packed summer festival tour on The Marquee Stage of Leicester’s annual Big Session festival, onstage time is 9.45pm…

Splicing dance tunes of old England with the sunny sexy grooves of reggae and lovers’ rock, Edward II transcended superficial notions of “crossover” to forge a truly original synthesis from their far-flung musical roots.
Featuring a seven-piece line up that saw melodeon and sax, fiddle and trombone nestling snugly cheek-by-jowl, their repertoire strolled expansively from reworked folk standards like “Wild Mountain Thyme” or “La Russe” to Caribbean classics like Gregory Isaacs “Night Nurse”. They were long renowned as one of the freshest, funkiest acts on the circuit, they sent crowds from Shetland to Sri Lanka, Brazil to Bangladesh into a jigging, skanking frenzy with their superlative live shows.

Go to the Big Session Festival Website

19 June 2009 2 Comments

2 Comments »

  1. See you there! :D

    //Lizzie
    19 June 2009 at 6:20 pm

  2. What a fantastic concert at Leicester. It was a great day all round with reasonable weather, good atmosphere and lots of good acts, but it was Edward II I particularly came to see. Was it worth the 10 year wait – you bet it was! Just before the set began I was wondering how the changeover from the Oysterband was going to happen given the strict time frame. Then I noticed that band members were filtering on stage and the transition was just perfect. I glanced over my shoulder and exchanged a look of with a fellow concert goer who was as delighted as I was to finally see the renion after all these years. And what a set. It was played with great energy, enthusiasm, expertise and sheer good fun throughout. I enjoyed myself immensely as did everyone in the Big Top that night. See you on down the road…

    //Frank
    22 June 2009 at 12:46 pm

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