The Sun Inn is a historic public house hosting many live music events throughout the week. They serve many real ales and provide a warm and exctiting atmosphere. Live bands play every Friday and Saturday, with free entry.There is a beer garden, and dogs and children are welcome.

The Sun Inn – 1 Flemingate, Beverley, East Yorkshire, HU17 0NP – 01482 881245

The Sun Inn – 1 Flemingate, Beverley, East Yorkshire, HU17 0NP – 01482 881245

The Sun Inn – 1 Flemingate, Beverley, East Yorkshire, HU17 0NP – 01482 881245

The Sun Inn – 1 Flemingate, Beverley, East Yorkshire, HU17 0NP – 01482 881245

Preparations for this year’s Beverley Blues Festival are well underway. The festival takes place from Friday 26th until Sunday 28th October.

Last year’s Festival was overcapacity, so we have added a second venue- Hodgsons Pub, Flemingate in Beverley, the headline acts are:

Lee Bates and Billy Newton, Tom Attah (the living bluesman) and Poorboy (plus special guest). The Saturday night at Hodgsons is a ticket only event so get yours now; these are on sale either online at http://beverleyblues.com or from either venue for an ‘early bird’ price of only £7.50, numbers are limited so don’t miss out!

Events at the Sun Inn, Flemingate are free entry for the whole weekend, including Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Acts confirmed so far are: Kingstown Blues Band, This Way Up, Half Deaf Clatch, Cliffe Hangers, Jonny & the Rizlas, Steve Fulsham Band and Blues Beaten Redshaw, with more still to be added. An all day menu will also be available.

Local Artist Neil Helyard, along with his students, will also be recording the event through photography and painting under the theme of “Notes of Music & Nodes of Colour,” so come along and be part of it. If you are an artist, musician or a volunteer who’d like to join in, please feel free to make contact via the website with details of what you can offer.

Visit http://beverleyblues.com for further details, updates and free music downloads from last years festival.

The last weekend of this month, 26th – 28th October, sees the second ever Beverley Blues Festival. The event takes place at the historic Sun Inn, overseen by the magnificent Beverley Minster and Hodgsons’ public house, situated next to the Beverley Leisure Centre.

On the Saturday evening, there will be a special ticket only event at Hodgsons’. This is a limited capacity event and there are still some tickets available at £7.50 each from the festival website (http://www.beverleyblues.com). Headlining artists appearing; here are: Half Deaf Clatch; our home grown stompin’ ‘n’ slidin’ Humber Delta bluesman, Lee Bates and Billy Newton; one of the best blues duos in the country, harmonica and guitar at its finest, Tom Attah (The Living Bluesman); a master of acoustic blues with great and amusing stories illustrating the origins of the blues.

Poorboy complete the line-up finishing off the evening with some fine harp led rootsy blues with a hefty kick of rock n roll.

The events at the Sun Inn are free entry and take place from Friday evening through both Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings. There will be food served throughout both afternoons. There are over 25 bands and artists appearing, including local acts: This Way Up, Half Deaf Clatch, Blues Beaten Redshaw ( localish), the Steve Fulsham Band and One Way Out.

Special guests appearing to include:: straight from her European/UK tour, New York based songstress Kirsten Thien. She crosses the homey crooning of Bonnie Raitt with the incendiary power of Janis Joplin. One of the UKs leading blues piano vocalists, Dan Burnett, will be joining us to finish off the weekend in style. Dans dad, Laurie, was a well-known Beverley musician who played alongside Woody Woodmansey and Trevor Bolder.

The festival is a charity event with the aim of raising funds and awareness of Nordoff Robbins, who provide music therapy for a wide range of conditions throughout the UK. To find out more or donate to this worthwhile cause, please visit the website at www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk
Keep checking the website for details and updates.

The Beverley Open Mic Club that runs every Tuesday at the Sun Inn from 8.30pm till 11pm are having a charity Christmas Special night on Tuesday 18th December.

The club has been running in it’s present format for around 5 years now and there has been a wealth of local talent performing over that time. We welcome acoustic musicians of all styles and abilities. The club welcomes original material as well as covers and will have a theme of Christmas songs on 18th.

The Christmas charity night is raising money for local children’s charity Go Kids Go who work with young wheelchair users.

The night is being hosted by local musician Roy Wild.

The warm up towards this years’ Beverley Blues Festival gets under-way this coming weekend with a new season of Sunday Blues open mic/jam sessions.

The sessions take place on the last Sunday of each month in the run up to the festival, which takes place on the 18th to 20th October. They take place in the Sun Inn, Beverley and are hosted by the ever popular Half Deaf Clatch.

An announcement will also take place on Sunday with regards to an Easter Sunday Blues Special event at the Sun Inn.

All are welcome to come along and play, or sit back and enjoy the music.

Last years’ festival raised £450 for the music therapy charity, Nordoff Robbins.

The Sun Inn will be hosting a Real Ale Festival from the 7th to the 10th March.

The Beverley boozer will have 12 different named beers, having a Pork Pie baking competition and will also be holding a free prize draw giving nine of their customers a chance to win a gallon of beer.

A quiz night will be held on the first night of the event with live music taking place on each of the other days starting with The Directors on Friday evening.

On Saturday, the pub will open its doors from midday; the Pork Pie competition will also be judged by the Mayor of Beverley Margaret Pinder and councillor Duncan Jack among the judges. In the evening on Saturday from 9pm Reloaded will take to stage.

The final day of the the Sun Inn Real Ale Festival will see the pub serve up a Sunday Lunch served from 12 – 3pm. There will also be more live music with HarriWatts Band and the prize draw to win the beer will take place.

The Sun Inn hosted their weekly Open Mic Night and there was plenty of variety in terms of music and talent on show.

A number of local artists took it in turns to perform a range of songs to suit all tastes.

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The headliners for this years Beverley Blues Festival have been announced as Ian Siegal and Catfish Keith.

The festival takes place on the 18th – 20th October in the historic market town of Beverley in East Yorkshire. This year the event will be staged over 3 venues.

Ian Siegal with support by Tom Attah will be at Armstrongs Club on Friday 18th October, Catfish Keith with support by Half Deaf Clatch (Nominated for Best Original Blues Song in this years British Blues Awards) at Hodgsons on Saturday 19th October.

Tickets for these two events are available from the festivals website www.beverleyblues.com and are £12.50 each. Please note tickets are limited to 150 per event.

Siegal has been nominated for an unprecedented 5 awards at this years British Blues Awards and has previously been awarded.

• Contemporary Blues Album of the Year – BLUES MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATION 2012 & 2013
• Male Vocalist of the Year – BRITISH BLUES AWARDS 2011
• Blues Band of the Year – BRITISH BLUES AWARDS 2010
• Blues Album of the Year – MOJO magazine ‘09

Siegal’s forte is playing to an audience. He takes command of the stage in a way very few artists alive today can match. Sweat, passion, humour, balls-to-the-wind slide guitar and a soul-infused voice big enough to fell trees! It has won him an ever-growing following of fans and a horde of female admirers. For more info go to his website – www.iansiegal.com

Cutting-edge blues singer, songwriter and bottleneck slide guitarist Catfish Keith has established himself as one of the most exciting country blues performers of our time. Catfish’s innovative style of foot-stomping, deep delta blues and American roots music has spellbound audiences the world over
Catfish Keith is a two-time W. C. Handy Blues Award nominee for BEST ACOUSTIC BLUES ALBUM, and 2008 inductee into the BLUES HALL OF FAME, Catfish has fourteen NUMBER ONE independent radio chart-topping albums to his credit, and packs houses all over the world with his dynamic stage show.

The 30-year veteran has toured the USA, UK and Europe dozens of times to wide acclaim, headlining major music festivals, and appearing with legends John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Robert Cray, Koko Taylor, Taj Mahal , Leo Kottke, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Johnny Shines and many, many others.

Catfish Keith was born in East Chicago, Indiana on February 9th, 1962. He first heard blues as a child while living in “The Harbor,” a working-class, steel mill town. When he picked up the guitar as a teenager, he was inspired to pursue the deep delta blues after being converted by Son House.. For more info go over to his website www.Catfishkeith.com.

Over at the Sun Inn all gigs are free entry and feature both afternoon and evening acts throughout the weekend. The Alligators with support by This Way Up will be performing on the Friday night. Jonny & The Rizlas with support by The Cliffe Hangars on the Saturday night and Dan Burnett will be appearing on the Sunday night.

The Beverley Folk Festival is in full swing with the new venue at Beverley Racecourse proving to be a big hit with festival goers.

More space, easier access and also plenty of parking have made getting in and out of the towns largest music events a breeze.

Now in its 30th year Friday evening saw to eagerly awaited performance from the Proclaimers, who rocked a packed out main tent.

Organisers of the Beverley Folk Festival are doing their best to keep the event linked to the town centre running a shuttle bus through the day and long into the evening.

Local pubs The Tiger Inn, The Sun Inn and Hodgsons Pub have all worked together this year putting on live acts throughout the weekend as they look to fill the void left by the relocation.

The Queens Head is also doing their best to maintain the music in the town, tonight they will feature Beverley’s very own folk band the Ragamuffins, who will be appearing from 9pm.

Landlord Les Willicombe when asked how the relocation had impacted on his business said;

“So far our day trade was on par with that of last year with the festival being in the town, but our evening business was nothing close to last year.”

The views of Les are shared by the landlord of the Sun Inn Richard Price, he told HU17.net;

“Through the day we have been steady away but on the Friday night it was very quiet, it may have had something to do with the Proclaimers, who were the main act, after they finished we did get a few in but we have have certainly seen a drop in our figures.”

Richard is keen on rebuilding the fringe festival he added;

“This year three of the pubs put something together and got some acts on, for next year we will put more planning into it and make the fringe festival bigger and better.”

“The Beverley Folk Festival has become such a huge event it needed to move, so we have to adapt and see it as an opportunity to rebuild the Fringe Festival.”

It seems that with the Beverley Folk Festival moving the pubs are already taking a more of hands-on approach to ensuring they are not left behind.

The general feeling appears to be that collectively the pubs can succeed and ensure music does remain within the town during the Beverley Folk Festival weekend for years to come.

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The run up to this years festival concludes on Sunday 29th September. These monthly Sunday blues sessions have featured some amazing artists including Half Deaf Clatch (our fantastic host), Mick Pini, Dogfinger Steve, Chicago Bound, Bad Hat Harry and too many more to mention. Many thanks are extended to all involved from the festival committee.

This years festival includes some truly spectacular acts over 3 venues. Headliners include: Ian Siegal, Catfish Keith, Dan Burnett, The Alligators, Half Deaf Clatch, Tom Attah, Jonny & The Rizlas, This Way Up, Dogfinger Steve, Ben Ironshoes plus a whole host more.

What they say:

Siegal’s forte is playing to an audience. He takes command of the stage in a way very few artists alive today can match. Sweat, passion, humour, balls-to-the-wind slide guitar and a soul-infused voice big enough to fell trees! It has won him an ever-growing following of fans and a horde of female admirers.

• Contemporary Blues Album of the Year – BLUES MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATION 2012 & 2013
• Male Vocalist of the Year – BRITISH BLUES AWARDS 2011
• Blues Band of the Year – BRITISH BLUES AWARDS 2010
• Blues Album of the Year – MOJO magazine ‘09

“Awash with wit, lust and distraction…one of the most inventive Blues recordings ever made by a British artist.” MOJO

For more info go to his website – www.iansiegal.com

Cutting-edge blues singer, songwriter and bottleneck slide guitarist Catfish Keith (USA) has established himself as one of the most exciting country blues performers of our time. Catfish’s innovative style of foot-stomping, deep delta blues and American roots music has spellbound audiences the world over.

Catfish Keith is a two-time W. C. Handy Blues Award nominee for BEST ACOUSTIC BLUES ALBUM, and 2008 inductee into the BLUES HALL OF FAME, Catfish has fourteen NUMBER ONE independent radio chart-topping albums to his credit, and packs houses all over the world with his dynamic stage show. The 30-year veteran has toured the USA, UK and Europe dozens of times to wide acclaim, headlining major music festivals, and appearing with legends John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Robert Cray, Koko Taylor, Taj Mahal , Leo Kottke, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Johnny Shines and many, many others.

For more info go to his website – www.catfishkeith.com

Full details and tickets are available from the festival website www.beverleyblues.com – Tickets for the Ian Siegal and Catfish Keith plus support acts are limited, so people are advised to go to the website now and place their orders. Tickets for these two events are only £12.50 each per night!!

This year there will be a competition for bands/artists (all welcome), for the chance to win a free days recording in a professional studio, with sound/recording engineers and free copies of recordings all included. (Check website for more details)

There will also be two auctions. One is for a one off – limited edition cigar box guitar, hand crafted by master cigar box luthier, Dogfinger Steve of Dogfinger guitars. The second is for a one off – limited edition cajon percussion instrument, crafted by Mark Wilshire. Again, more details on the website.

The whole event takes place over 3 days. Friday night, all day and night Saturday and Sunday at the Sun Inn, Flemingate, Beverley. The Sun Inn is a free event all weekend with food available on request.

Friday Night at the Armstrongs Social Club and Saturday night at Hodgsons. These two events cost £12.50 each per event and blues fans are urged to get their orders in now!!

This is the third year of the festival, which has grown year on year, gaining a huge reputation and marking its place in the rich cultural history of the ancient market town of Beverley in East Yorkshire.

The festival is a non-profit venture and aims to collect money on behalf of Nordoff Robbins music therapy charity. It is sponsored by Beverley Town Council, Blues Matters Magazine and The Sun Inn.

Held over two days and three nights at The Sun Inn, Armstrongs Social Club and Hodgsons Pub The Beverley Blues Festival was again a bit hit with music fans.

At Hodgsons Pub the headline act on the Saturday night was Catfish Keith who is described as one of the brightest lights in acoustic blues and roots music.

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Beverley Blues Festival 2014 have confirmed the dates for this year’s event with organisers saying that there will be even more to do and that the event will be a bigger and better.

Now in its third year the weekend that started as a light hearted discussing continues to grow, Steve Swales from the Beverley Blues Festival Committee said;

“After last year’s extremely successful event, this year’s Blues Festival promises to be even bigger and better as we bring more acts to the town and promote the live music in Beverley.”

With many international, national and regional headliners including Ian Siegal, The Mick Pini Band, Poor Boy, Jonny & The Rizlas, Tom Attah & The Bad Man Clan, The Dan Burnett Blues Band and Bluespex.

Other featured artists include Kingstown Blues Band, Chicago Bound, Ben Ironshoes, Bad Hat Harry, Rivers Johansson, Blues Pierre plus many more.

It is not just live music, those interested will be able to get first hand advice from some of the performers at the Beverley Blues Festival, Steve added;

“We will also be holding practical workshop’s with Cigar Box Luthier, Dogfinger Steve, anyone wishing to attend the workshops will need to book in advance.”

As always there are free to attend music events over the weekend at The Sun Inn and Armstrongs Social Club featuring the best of regional talent.

In the run up to the festival there are the ongoing free monthly Sunday Blues Sessions at the Sun Inn taking place on the last Sunday of each month.

The Beverley Blues Festival takes place over the weekend of 17th, 18th and 19th October, to buy tickets and to find out more about the event please the visit Beverley Blues Festival website.

Beverley Ukulele Group or as they like to call themselves, ‘BUGs’ continues to grow in popularity.

Now in its fourth year, the group continues to attract new members to their weekly musical get together held at the Sun Inn.

Carol Fallon, who was one of the founders and is still with the group feels that the simplicity of the instrument and the social aspect of the group is what helps bring in new members, she said;

“The Ukulele very simple instrument to learn. You only need about to know about three cords, and you can get going. Of course, there are a lot more cords but you after you about three it is possible play a few songs.”

“Most of the people that come along that have never played a musical instrument before and come as they want to learn. A majority of us are about retirement age, but that is not how it was planned it just worked out that way.”

Carol’s brother, a former member of the Beverley Ragamuffins Tony Soames added;

“We do play out too, anyone who wants us to play can book us. We tend to play for charity bookings, little dinner parties in the local villages, wedding anniversaries and basically for anyone who wants a sing along at their event really.”

For those interested, they can join the group every Monday from 8pm at the Sun Inn with sessions open to people of all abilities.

Dave Gadie raised almost £350 for charity by having his beard he had been growing for 18 months shaved off at the Sun Inn in Beverley.

Dave was approached by his cousin who taking part in a competition to win a wedding by raising money a for a charity that helps local children.

Speaking to HU17.net Dave said;

“I agreed to have my beard cut off and to be clean shaven for my cousin as he was trying to win a wedding through a competition by Viking FM’s Cash For Kids.”

“When he asked me at first I did not want to do it at all. The truth is I was a bit worried so I said no. Then as I reflected on it a bit more I agreed when I learned more about the charity he was raising money for.”

Despite his Dave’s best efforts his cousin missed out on the top prize. In the end he was runner up in the competition but still managed to raise well over £6000 for the charity.

When asked Dave said he hoping to get his facial hair back, he said;

“I am most likely going to be growing my beard back l as I feel lost without. Everybody I see keeps telling me I look a lot better and lot younger but I disagree.”

In Beverley The Sun Inn is widely regarded as one of the pubs when it comes to music.

It is no surprise then that their weekly Open Mic nights are very popular with musicians and also people who just come along to listen to others perform.

Iona Wild, the Open Mic Host at the Sun Inn says that they have a good mix of music and also a good range of musicians in terms of age, she said;

“The Open Mic has been running for a few years now. There is a real variety of music so there’s always something for everyone. We welcome all ages and we have some amazing young talent.”

“People can just turn up on the night and play. It’s a great opportunity for local musicians to showcase their talent, it’s also open for anyone to come and listen.”

Open Mic starts at 9PM every Tuesday with performances going on until 11PM. For the final half an hour the PA is switched off and they have a ‘Jam’ playing popular well know songs.

Local musicians who are regular at the Tuesday open mic night which is held at the Sun Inn got together for a festive evening of music.

A very well attended evening saw singers and performers all take to stage with some members of the public also braving things and taking to the mic.

Photos from a night of live music at the Sun Inn where local cover band, Reloaded entertained a packed pub.

As ever the bands choice of music was well received by the punters who had filled the nightspot for a night of music.

Beverley Blues Festival returns this October with new acts and venues for what promises to be a excellent weekend of Blues Music.

Taking place from 21 to 23 October, the Beverley Blues Weekender 2016 will see acts perform at the Sun Inn and also for the first time perform at Parkway Cinema.

Commenting on the event Steve Swales, from the Beverley Blues Festival said;

“This, the sixth ‘Blues Weekender’ takes place and after last year’s successful event it returns again and features some fantastic national and local blues bands and artists.”

“Headlining this year on the Saturday night, at the all new Parkway Cinema in their Theatre situated in Flemingate, are Tom Attah & The Bad Man Clan.”

“Tom and his band return by popular request after kicking up a storm appearing at the annual event two years ago.”

“Music fans should expect a night of hard felt blues performed with the energy and style only The Bad Man Clan can provide.”

“Supporting them are Soft Shoe Sam, a renowned bottle neck/slide guitar player and vocalist and the local favourites, six piece band The Juke Joint Kings, performing some classic Chicago style blues.”

Each year Beverley Blues raises money for the music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins and features a dedicated stage at The Sun Inn, Flemingate.

Mr. Swales added;

“At the Sun Inn you will find a free event featuring national and local bands and artists on the Friday night and all day/evenings on the Saturday and Sunday.”

“Performers over the weekend include Crosscut Saw, Chris Martin, Chord on Blues, Dogfinger Steve, Rivers Johannson, Steve Fulsham, Julian Socha, Freddy James, Chicago Bound, Chequered Past, John Lawson, Brian Williams and more.”

“This is a Weekender not to be missed.”

Tickets for the Saturday Headliner event are only £9 and available from the Beverley Blues Website at www.beverleyblues.com or from the Parkways booking office, Tel (01482-968090).

Further details on the whole weekend can also be found at www.beverleyblues.com

The Sun Inn celebrated the New Year by hosting 60s music party for their regulars as they gathered to see in 2017.

A good turn out enjoyed some cracking tracks from years gone by with plenty of people happy to take to dance floor and show off their moves.

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HU17.net Magazine Issue 329 is out and features a selection of content from the HU17.net Web Site. The magazine can be purchased by emailing sales@hu17.net

This weeks issue features pictures from New Years Eve at Armstrongs social Club , the NYE party held at The Sun Inn and all the weekend’s sporting action.

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