Blues on the Meadow

Fancy sitting listening to great Blues music in a laid back atmosphere, sun shining, nibbling away at a burger or picnic swilled down with your favourite tipple - Blues on the Meadow is for you!

... next Blues on the Meadow
SAT, 2^nd JULY 2011

Many thanks to the BotM 2010 Sponsors ...

The Hinds Head, Aldermaston

BotM 2010 line up was ...

Connie Lush
& Blues Shouter

Earl Green
& The Right Time

Ben Poole Band

The Spikedrivers

Bad Penny

Press cuttings Botm 2010

Quotes about BotM 2010

"...playing here is like being at a great private party." - Connie Lush

" ...whatever you are doing is working, don't change a thing!" - Constance from Spikedrivers

"... lovely to play for you again." - Earl Green

"...the festival was fantastic – the perfect way to spend a Saturday..."

"Great time at a great little festival. We will definitely put this in our calendar again next year"

"...a great atmosphere and great music throughout, the sound quality was so good..."

"The best yet!"

"...you (the organisers) should be proud of what you have achieved..."

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Blues Music

A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first.

Believed to have originating in the fields of the Mississippi Delta, the Blues are now back in their rightful setting - Blues on the Meadow.

"The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation" (B.B. King)

more history ...

Blues on the Meadow...

... born one June afternoon in 2006. It was such a success it was repeated on August Bank Holiday the same year.... and it’s not stopped since. Now established in the blues festival calendar on the 1st Saturday of July - just to compete with Henley Regatta - Yeah, right!

... an outdoor music event where you can listen to the best of local and national blues bands while chilling out with a glass or two. It’s held in a meadow ... (surprise, surprise).. in Aldermaston, West Berkshire (between Reading and Newbury). A great summer’s afternoon & evening of blues music. Excellently accompanied by bar and food .

... alternatively known as the Aldermaston Blues Festival

... although I quite like the mnemonic 'BotM' (Ed)!