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Tickets and Information:
Tel: 0113 336 8619
Tickets for all events available from
Garforth Bookshop, 15 Main St. Garforth Tel 0113 286 3534
Ticket for the Playground Party event available from Jumbo
Records, St John’s Centre, Leeds
(Purchases may be subject to administration fee.)
For access to last year's website and previous festivals please click
here.
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HIGHLIGHTS – more information to follow...
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Main Festival Event: Playground Party - Sat 5th July
 Richard
Hawley
When Coles Corner was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize,
winners, The Arctic Monkeys, remarked "Somebody call 999, Richard
Hawley's been robbed".
'This is music to connect the generations: beautiful, moving pop
at its best.' The Guardian
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 Jazz
Jamaica
Parliamentary Jazz Award - Best Ensemble 2006
BBC Jazz Award - Best Band 2002
Jazz Jamaica's Tighten Up!
For those who love reggae, rock steady, ska and jazz and for those
who just want to party!
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 Middleman
"MIDDLEMAN make bouncy,vibrant, ridiculously catchy tunes
that stand out a mile from everything else around at the moment."
HUW STEPHENS (RADIO 1)
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 3
Daft Monkeys
"Varied and stirring acoustic style.......outstanding fiddle
work"
Guardian (Social Vertigo) ***
"A veritable melting pot of styles make a colourful carnival
of sound"
fROOTS Magazine
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Playground Party Venue: Garforth Community
College (outdoor event)
Tickets: £20/£14 concession
(for children under 16 or adults 60 and over)
Family tickets: £52 (admits 2 adults
and 2 children – 6 to 16)
Children 5 and under: free
Discount Tickets for local residents available
from Garforth Bookshop on proof of address.
Doors: 1pm
Tickets for the Playground Party event available
online from 
Also available from
Garforth Bookshop, 15 Main St. Garforth Tel 0113 286 3534
and Jumbo Records, St John’s Centre, Leeds
(Purchases may be subject to administration fee.)
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 Undumo
Wesizwe - An evening of African Culture – Thurs 26th June
Umdumo has performed live music coupled with thought provoking
and well-choreographed dances and movements to appreciative audiences
at prestigious functions, venues and festivals around Zimbabwe and
Southern Africa performing for both local and foreign audiences.
This evening will also involve students from Garforth Community
College, Brigshaw Language College, Bramley Primary School as well
as special guests from a school in Durban South Africa.
Venue: Garforth Community College Main Hall
Tickets: £7/5
Doors: 7.30pm
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 Imran
Ahmad – ‘In Conversation’ – Sat 28th June
In his book, Unimagined – a Muslim boy meets the West, Imran
charts his course through school, university and into his first
job, exploring with poignant humour and painful insight the dilemmas
of a Muslim boy growing up in Britain.
Unimagined has had some stirring reviews and was selected by no
less than three major newspapers (Independent, Guardian, Sydney
Morning Herald) to be in their ‘best books of the year’
lists.
Venue: Garforth Library
FREE (donations to the festival welcome)
Start: 2pm.
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 Soweto
Kinch - Sat 28th June
"It's a clever and entertaining juxtaposition of idioms that
kicks pure Jazz and authentic rap into a brave new world."
(The Guardian)
This show also features a support act GJRB (Garforth Jazz Rock
Band). Their set will include a brand new festival commission written
and led by Soweto Kinch.
Venue: Garforth Community College
Tickets: £14/12
Doors: 7.30pm
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 Brighouse
& Rastrick Band– Sun 29th June
A welcome return to this world famous brass band.
Garforth Community College Main Hall
£14/£12conc
7.30pm
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 Rebecca
Hollweg band – Tues 1st July
Magical, melodic jazz pop **** Uncut Magazine
You won't see this advertised on television, but since when has
that been a guarantee of quality? Sunday Times
with support from Emily Levy Rich Arthurs and Soul Sounds
Venue: Garforth Working Men's Club
Tickets: £8/6
Doors 7pm
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 An
Audience with Gervase Phinn - Tues 1st July
Gervase Phinn has a unique understanding and love of children,
and a wonderful gift for storytelling ... a real star (Esther Rantzen)
He tells a cracking good tale! (The Times)
Venue: Garforth Community College main Hall
Tickets: £14/12
Doors: 7.30pm
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 Tony
Benn - Wed 2nd July
Tony Benn served in the House of Commons for over fifty years
- the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour Party.
He was a cabinet minister for eleven years.
Now President of the Stop the War Coalition.
Tony has published nine volumes of his Diary from 1941 to 2007.
Venue: Garforth Working Men's Club
Tickets: £12/£10conc
Doors: 7.30pm
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