sa 26 Nov
2022 |  ♫ A while back the Maverick Thanksgiving Ranch Party seemed doubtful but we're very pleased it will be back in Easton Farm Park tonight. Rich Hall is headlining plus the excellent Henry Brothers and Chuck Wills Band ... can't wait eh?
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sa 2 Jul
2022 | ♫ ZZ Top were a Texas bar band ... last night at the Maverick Festival in Easton Vandoliers were a rowdy Texas bar band with a hint of mariachi ... l♥ved it. |
fr 10 Jun
2022 |  ♫ We're looking forward to the Maverick Festival in Easton next month, it's usually excellent weather and there's always bands we didn't know we liked. This year we fancy Canadians The Redhill Valleys combining alt-country with NASCAR plus Dirty Cello who despite the name would you expect Rebecca Roudman to be playing stand up cello?
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we 9 Mar
2022 | .jpg "2022 Maverick Festival") The line up has been set for this year's Maverick Festival at the beginning of July. As always there's some players we haven't heard of but some we know we really like. ♫
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mo 6 Sep
2021
 | .jpg "Eddy Smith and the 507") We feared that Maverick being two months later this year and so darker and perhaps colder it wouldn't be as popular as previously, we were wrong, an excellent turnout. Our particular enjoyments included the 507's bass player's licks, decent fish and chips, the intimacy and flatfooting of West Virginian Jeni Hankins, and the woggle on the glamorous new wrist bands. ♫
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sa 4 Sep
2021 |  A bit of a queue at the entrance for the Maverick Festival last night whilst lateral flow credentials were established but a delight that Maverick is back. Jerry Joseph soloing in the Moonshine Bar was so sharp edged he demanded your attention. On the Peacock Stage the James Riley Band pleasantly tickled our Americana buds with something in threes and the wonderful pedal steel of Chris Hillman. Rich Hall tonight, can't wait. ♫
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mo 30 Aug
2021 | Unconfined joy the Maverick Festival in Easton is back this Friday and definitely lucky for those going for the thirteenth time. ♫ |
sa 3 Jul
2021 |  If there had been no pandemic this weekend would have been the 14th Maverick Festival (thanks for the reminder Skirky). Maverick has been moved to the start of September this year with favourites Rich Hall, Hank Wangford and BJ Cole and as always there will be new acts to us we'll discover we enjoy. ♫
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sa 8 May
2021 |  5pm tonight on Alde and Blyth Valley Community Radio (rolls off the tongue eh?) the Maverick Festival's daddy Paul Spencer plays music for rangers, wranglers and rustlers live from the plains and prairies of Suffolk.
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th 18 Mar
2021 |  Like the Maverick Festival strap line Often unheard, always unherd. This September the wonderfully grumpy Rich Hall will be returning, and unheard by us but certainly unherd Black Eyed Dogs will do a show and then transmogrify into Dogs Play Dead to do a Grateful Dead set ... can't wait.
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we 24 Feb
2021 |  We've always enjoyed at Maverick Festival shows the broad repertoire and sometimes standyup drummer of Norwich band Vagaband who musicalise (yes, we just made that word up) the 2021 Census tv ad. The band briefly appears around 49secs in. ♫
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su 24 Jan
2021 | We were looking forward to Pancake Day and the return of the Maverick Festival in Easton. Perversely Maverick have made their return more likely by pushing themselves back from July to September. |
th 7 Jan
2021 |  Things to look forward to are Pancake Day next month, the race to the sun Paris-Nice happening in March and hopefully local old friend the Maverick Festival returning in July (with Terra Lightfoot) especially as there's been a parliamentary festival inquiry.
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sa 5 Dec
2020 |  Maverick Festival favourites Police Dog Hogan are giving the proceeds to Crisis at Christmas ... they've raised £6,774 so far. ♫
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su 9 Aug
2020 |  Saddening but not surprisingly the Red Rooster Festival near Thetford has been postponed until next year. Robert Stan Stamper (seen here on the Ipswich Cardinals chain crew entertaining the visiting Bury Saints sideline) at last year's Maverick Festival before dashing off to dance with his daughter told us the 2018 Roosterfest had been brilliant. ♫
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su 28 Jun
2020 |  Next Saturday 4 July is US Independence Day but more importantly your local pub should re-open. Let's hope bottled beer hasn't reprogrammed your taste buds and you have to relearn draught. In the afternoon you could use up those bottles while Maverick virtually festival on that there Facepack. We'll be looking out for rocker Terra Lightfoot and local Honey and the Bear. ♫
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tu 5 May
2020 | Tragedy, this year's Maverick Festival in Easton (the thirteenth) not surprisingly has been cancelled. ♫ |
th 9 Apr
2020
 |  Yesterday 302 confirmed C-19 cases in Suffolk, 39 the biggest step increase so far. Here's the seventeenth reason to be cheerful ... a magic moment hearing this floating out from the Barn Stage at the 2013 Maverick Festival ... she was wearing the same dress. ♫
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fr 10 Jan
2020 |  ♫ The thirteenth lucky for all Maverick Festival this summer in Easton has a firming up programme with some excellent names including the Legendary Shack Shakers, California Feetwarmers and Henhouse Prowlers. Also appearing is guitar abuser Terra Lightfoot whom we saw at Maverick's 2017 Thanksgiving ... she took no prisoners.
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mo 30 Dec
2019 | Coming off stage at the 2013 Maverick Festival one time local resident (we think Farnham) Neil Innes had two little girls rush up, put their arms round him That was great granddad ... sleep well sweet idiot. ♫ |
we 12 Aug
2019 | We've added comedian Rich Hall at the Maverick Festival to peeps in Suffolk. |
we 10 Jul
2019 |  ♫ We were impressed Sunday morning how busy Maverick was, the festival's first ever serious rain the preceding day had not prompted significant if any early leavers. This year the unprogrammed Medicine Show stage moved away from The Barn and so could run continually. We much enjoyed the Medicine Show's relaxed style but it would be nice to have a now on stage board. In The Barn we caught the last couple of Kenny Roby's songs and liked his witty laconic style, already looking forward to next year ...
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sa 6 Jul
2019 |  ♫ At the Maverick Festival last night we particularly enjoyed James Starks' fluid mandolin and The Lowly Strung's driving show (it prompted Stopwatch Stan to dance). Other treats included the boxy damped sound of Dana Immanuel's banjo.
Gosh there's been some development at the venue Easton Farm Park, the corrugated iron barn on the right as you enter has gone and there's a brand new building including showers plus three lodge type buildings in the field. As always Maverick is a joy and really looking forward to today. |
tu 2 Jul
2019 |  In Easton the Maverick Festival is always a joy even when the weather isn't perfect. Regrettably there's had to be a change to the bill this weekend but we'll be looking forward to seeing Don Gallardo plus the Henry Brothers and peeps new to us we don't know we like yet. ♫
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th 27 Jun
2019 | For next month's 12th annual Maverick Festival in Easton there's a free bus service from Wickham Market railway station. ♫ |
we 28 Nov
2018 | ♫ Friday night at Easton Farm Park the Maverick Thanksgiving Party had sufficient eating and drinking that the Earl Soham Vic ran out about three quarters through the evening. We much enjoyed the Henry Brothers country arrangement of I Can't Stand Mondays, perhaps Cher's Bang Bang next? The excellent Don Gallardo closed his The Last Waltz anniversary set with I Shall Be Released and we joined in with the audience singing along on the chorus ... as rewarding as Six Foot From His Tail!. |
su 8 Jul
2018 |  ♫ Magnificent weather for another brilliant Maverick producing some wonderful hats and for us the newbs on the Medicine Show stage perhaps the most rewarding, especially Banjo Jen. Our ears pricked at a very lateral keyboard solo from the Cordovas closing the Southern Sounds stage Saturday.. When we pointed out that the lead singer appeared to really fancy himself Rachael's friend asked for my long lens to get a better look and then said If I was that good looking I'd fancy myself.
Sunday a very pleasant conversation with Alan Mutimer and we suggested that Hachfest might return in its original form Hacheston Music Day ... who knows? |
tu 3 Jul
2018 |  This weekend it's the eleventh Maverick Festival at Easton Farm Park and they've all been wonderful and miraculously virtually no rain which looks assured again. Promoter Paul Spencer is speaking highly of the Cordovas who close the outdoor Southern Sounds stage Saturday. What really impresses us is rocker Terra Lightfoot with her band will be playing at the after party in the Easton White Horse ... just a hundred tickets and a good chunk already gone ... ♫
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