With one week to go until thousands of eager festival goers descend upon Tubby’s Farm, Hillsborough, for the 6th annual Sunflowerfest, festival organisers have announced the full programme of performances scheduled for the five main stages of the festival from Friday 31st July – Sunday 2nd August.
From spoken word and comedy performances in the Moot to local gems and cocktails at the Pond Stage, the picturesque backdrop of the Campfire Stage which will feature a range of more acoustic, folk and traditional acts, and the heavier, more alternative acts housed in the Barn Stage, this year’s festival is offering something for every musical taste and all ages of festival guest.
Music will kick off from 1.45pm on Friday 31st July and from 12pm on Saturday 1st August and 12.30pm Sunday 2nd August, with exciting headline acts Dreadzone (10.45pm, Friday), Senser (10.40pm, Saturday) and Skinny Lister (9.50pm, Sunday) closing the main stage on each night of the festival.
“We’re incredibly proud of the line-up we’ve secured for this year’s festival,” said Michael Magowan, organiser, Sunflowerfest. “Our planning for this year began immediately following last year’s festival and the line-ups we have confirmed for all of the festival’s stages represent the very best in local music as well as a number of rising stars in the British and Irish music scenes alongside veterans of the industry with Dreadzone and Senser.”
“We aim to organise an excitingly different and magical weekend festival each year and this year will not only include our five stages of live music but will also see a cocktail bar on a boat, a fully-supervised kids’ zone with arts, crafts and fun educational activities, the Bliss realm, sponsored by Vita Coco, which will nurture mind, body and spirit, and back by popular demand we will have a UV Silent Disco for guests to enjoy.”
Now in its 6th year, the annual festival held each summer on Tubby’s Farm in Hillsborough, County Down, has quickly become a must-attend festival for all things related to music and art. The annual festival is attended by music lovers from across the UK and Ireland and as far away as Russia, Germany, China and America.
To purchase tickets to next week’s festival or explore the full line-up of events and activities for all festival guests, visit www.sunflowerfest.co.uk.
This year’s confirmed music line-up is as follows and can also be accessed online at http://www.sunflowerfest.co.uk/lineup-2015/
FRIDAY 31ST JULY
MAIN STAGE
DREADZONE -10.45 – 11.55pm
EARL SIXTEEN & DREADZONE SOUND SYSTEM – 8.45pm- 9.45pm
KING KONG COMPANY – 7.10pm – 8.10pm
BUNOSCIONN – 5.50pm – 6.35pm
RUNABAY – 4.35pm – 5.15pm
TEMPEST FUGITIVES – Winners of Jägermeister Battle of the Bands – 3.25pm – 4pm
STORMTREE – 2.20pm – 2.55pm
BARN STAGE
NANU NANU – 9.45pm – 10.45pm
EVIL PRESIDENTES – 8.10pm – 8.45pm
JBR – 6.35pm – 7.10pm
REMEDY – 5.15pm – 5.50pm
GREEN MONKEY – 4pm – 4.35pm
THE TITANICS – 2.55pm- 3.25pm
PALM TREE DYNAMITE – 1.50pm – 2.20pm
CAMPFIRE STAGE
COCO AND THE BUTTERFIELDS – 9.45pm – 10.45pm
DECOMPOSING IN PARIS – 8.10pm – 8.45pm
LILITH LANE – 6.35pm – 7.10pm
ALLISON MCGRATH BAND -5.15PM – 5.50pm
HIS NEW ATLAS – 4pm- 4.35pm
DAVID GOODWIN – Buskfest Winner – 2.55pm- 3.25pm
DONNA DUNNE – 1.50pm – 2.20pm
POND STAGE
WOLF LIKE ME – 9.30pm – 10.30pm
MATTHEW BURKE – 8pm – 9pm
TAKODAH – 6.45pm – 7.45pm
MOSA – 5.30pm – 6.30pm
GRAHAM McKINSTRY – 4.15pm – 5.15pm
WILLIAM MARTIN – 3.00pm – 4.00pm
COMERADE HAT – 1.45pm –2.45pm
MOOT STAGE
LUKE McGIBBON/DAVID JAMES GRAYII (comedy) – 10.45pm – 11.20pm
MAGS & THE BEARDS – 8.45pm – 9.40pm
PAUL CURRIE (comedy) – 7.30pm – 8.10pm
NEW YORK MINUTE – 6.35pm – 7.10pm
WORD OF MOUTH POETRY (Cat Brogan & Clare McWilliams) – 5.30pm – 6.00pm
GILDED THIEVES – 4.30pm – 5.10 pm
SATURDAY 1ST AUGUST
MAIN STAGE
SENSER – 10.40pm – 11.55pm
SCREAMING EAGLES – 9.05pm – 9.55pm
TRIGGERMAN – 7.40pm – 8.25pm
DEANY DARKO – 6.20pm – 7.05pm
THE HARDCHARGERS – 5.50pm – 5.45pm
PREACHER’S SON – 3.55pm – 4.30pm
R51 – 2.45pm – 3.20pm
MY FELLOW SPONGES – 1.35pm – 2.10pm
THE LEFT BACKS – 12.30pm – 1.05pm
BARN STAGE
NASA ASSASSIN – 9.55pm – 10.40pm
MAVERICK – 8.25pm – 9.05pm
ELEVATION FALLS – 7.05pm – 7.40pm
HENRY CLUNEY -Stiff Little Fingers- 5.45pm – 6.20pm
LO MEJOR – 4.30pm -5.05pm
ROBOCOBRA QUARTET – 3.20pm – 3.55pm
HOT COPS – 2.10pm – 2.45pm
OH BOLAND – 1.05pm – 1.35pm
KRYPTIC STATE – 12pm – 12.30pm
CAMPFIRE STAGE
URSULA BURNS – 9.55pm – 10.40pm
THE TWISTED SISTERS – 8.25pm – 9.05pm
HVMMINGBYRD – 7.05pm – 7.40pm
LOVE STREET – 5.45pm – 6.20pm
KICK THE BUCKET BLUES BAND – 4.30pm- 5.05pm
GILDED THIEVES – 3.20pm – 3.55pm
OWEN DENVIR – 2.10pm – 2,45pm
MONSOON SEASON – 1.05pm – 1.35pm
QUE PASA – 12pm – 12.30pm
POND STAGE
THE JURY DISAGREE 9.15pm – 10.15pm
OBSIDIAN – 8.00pm – 9.00pm
SUSIE BLUE – 6.45pm – 7.45pm
CONOR HUTCHEON – 5.30pm – 6.30pm
UNA CLARKIN – 4.15pm – 5.15pm
ADAM PORTER – 3pm – 4pm
HANNAH ANDERSON – 1.45pm – 2.45pm
URSULA BURNS 12.30pm – 1.30
MOOT STAGE
NO OIL PAINTINGS – 10.40.11.55pm
MEN ON THE HILL – 9.05pm – 9.55pm
DANIEL DUKE – 7.40pm-8.25pm
DIRTY WORDS – 6.30PM – 7PM
RUN KID – 5.30pm – 6pm
ACOUSTIC SHOWCASE NI – 4.35pm – 5.10pm
NATIVE OAK – 3.40pm – 4.15pm
CIARA O’NEILL – 2.30pm – 3.10pm
WORD OF MOUTH POETRY – 1.30pm – 2.15pm
SINEAD COLL – 12.30pm – 1pm
SUNDAY 2ND AUGUST
MAIN STAGE
SKINNY LISTER – 9.50pm – 11pm
LORIS – 8.20pm – 9.05pm
MAGWERE – 7pm- 7.45pm
THE WOOD BURNING SAVAGES – 5.40pm – 6.25pm
DANIEL DUKE – 4.20pm – 5.05pm
AMANDA ST.JOHN – 3pm – 3.45pm
TREEHOME – 1.40pm – 2.20pm
BIG BELFAST CHOIR – 12.30pm – 1.05pm
BARN STAGE
ZOMBIFIED – 9.05pm – 9.50pm
WAR IRON – 7.45pm – 8.20pm
MATTY JAMES – 6.25pm – 7pm
PETTY YOUTH – 5.05pm – 5.40pm
ZALUPA – 3.45pm – 4.20pm
CIVIL SIMIAN – 2.20pm- 2.55pm
NAOISE ROO – 1.05pm – 1.40pm
CAMPFIRE STAGE
MUTEFISH – 9.05pm – 9.50pm
HOW – 7.45pm – 8.20pm
HVMMINGBYRD – 6.25pm – 7pm
THE DANDY HORSES – 5.05pm – 5.40pm
NA LEANAI – 3.45pm – 4.20pm
GROUSE – 2.20pm – 2.55pm
TECIMERICO – 1.05pm – 1.40pm
POND STAGE
BLOOMER WHITE (DJ) – 9.30pm – 10.30pm
JAMES McNEICE – 8.15pm – 9.15pm
PADDY MALLON – 7pm – 8pm
LEIF – 4.15pm – 5.15pm
TWISTED SISTERS – 3pm-4pm
STOMPBOX JONNY – 1.30pm – 2.30pm
ALICE SIGNAL FIRES – 12.15pm – 1.15pm
MOOT STAGE
GEOFF HATT & GUESTS – 8.20pm – 9.05pm
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LUCETTE – 7.20pm – 7.55pm
VOKXEN – 6.30pm – 7pm
WORD OF MOUTH POETRY – 5.40pm – 6.15pm
TIN POT OPERATION – 4.45pm – 5.25pm
CATHERINE HATT – 3.55pm -4.25pm
ACOUSTIC SHOWCASE NI – 3pm – 3.45pm
WORD OF MOUTH POETRY – 1.40pm – 2.20pm
NATIVE OAK – 1.05pm – 1.30pm