Beyond the Beaten Track announces industry panels, day programme and music lineup for legacy event this Saturday
Beyond the Beaten Track
Saturday 28th January, 2017
The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2.00pm to late
Free Entry
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On Saturday January 28th, the Bluecoat will host BEYOND THE BEATEN TRACK – a one-off closing party event, to celebrate Liverpool’s Above the Beaten Track festivals. The celebration will feature a daytime programme of panels, workshops, talks, roundtable discussions and informal networking, aimed at young people looking to work in the music and creative industries. A free evening gig will close the day’s activity, featuring a selection of acts from previous festivals.
Daytime programme
Organisers have now announced details of what to expect during the daytime programme and you can find detailed information below.
2pm Doors
2.30pm – Panel #1 : “Getting Into Work”
The panel will look at how to get involved, establish one’s self and progress in the music and creative industries. Featuring a range of guests, including previous ATBT placement alumni.
Kaya Herstad-Carney (Threshold Festival / ACM) – Host
Yaw Owusu (LIMF / Nothin’ But The Music)
David Lally (ATBT alumni, Liverpool Biennial, The Barbican)
Abbey Andersen (ATBT alumni, Africa Oye)
FREE: To register click here
3.30pm 1hr roundtables & networking
Kaya Herstad-Carney (Threshold Festival / ACM) – Host
Peter Shilton (Merseyside Arts Foundation)
Kevin MacArthur & Andy Scott (Smithdown Road Festival)
Yaw Owusu (LIMF / Nothin’ But The Music)
Graham Holland (Liverpool Acoustic)
Chris Herstad-Carney (Threshold Festival)
4.30pm Panel #2 : “Ask the Promoter”
Whether it be securing gigs, putting on shows yourself, or just looking to get involved, this panel will consider current issues in the live gig and festival environment, and provide an opportunity to meet and “ask the promoter”.
Chris Herstad-Carney (Threshold Festival)
Graham Holland (Liverpool Acoustic)
Yaw Owusu (LIMF / Nothin’ But The Music)
Kevin MacArthur (Smithdown Road Festival)
FREE: To register click here
5.30pm onwards…
Informal Networking – An opportunity for everyone to catch up – a wide range of attendees in a more relaxing informal environment, which will progress straight into the evening’s entertainment.
All daytime activity is completely free – please register via Bluecoat’s website to guarantee your place at the panels – uk.patronbase.com/_Bluecoat/
Evening music programme
6.30pm – A FREE ENTRY GIG with the following acts.
Mike Badger & The Shadys
Mike Badger co-founded, Liverpool band: The La’s in the mid-eighties, he then formed The Onset, one of the UK’s first alternative Country Roots bands in 1988. Mike is also a partner in Liverpool Label Viper. Expect Original Roots Music, Rockabilly and Scouse Honky Tonk.
“Impossible to pigeonhole…a perfect pick and mix for the ears” – Alan Brown, Shindig
Jimmy Rae & The Moonshine Girls
Jimmy Rae & the Moonshine Girls are a Country/Amerciana flavoured acoustic trio from the Wirral, fronted by singer songwriter Jimmy Rae, accompanied by Sarah-Lou Fletcher on harmony vocals and Izzy Ryder on piano. Jimmy’s songs are rooted in the American rock’n’roll and country traditions, with an enchanting twist of celtic folk, lending them a comforting sense of familiarity. In concert, the precision harmonies and musicianship of The Moonshine Girls showcases them at their very best.
“Utterly superb, taking Country back to where it belongs” – Country Routes Magazine (UK)
Nick Ellis
Nick Ellis is dedicated to the concept of “Song” and “Melody”. Some people call it folk, some just call it good old fashioned song craft. Currently based in Liverpool, Ellis blends streetscape narrative-noir with a classic British acoustic approach. Using a blend of rhythmic attack and finger-quick lucidity, his sound has been described as “a conversation between Elvis Costello and John Martyn.”
“Fascinating” – Whispering Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2
Silent Cities
Silent Cities is the alias of experimental recording artist, Simon Maddison. Based somewhere in the North of England. Influenced by time, natural LANDscapes, and the human condition. With a haunting falsetto voice and intricate guitar stylings, Silent Cities is fast garnering a cult following.
“The real deal” – Tom Robinson, BBC 6Music
The night will also features DJ sets from:
Josh Ray
Having amassed a music collection beyond his years, deejaying was the next logical step for Josh Ray. Expect a myriad of infectious grooves that’ll put a swing in your hips and a smile on your face.
Jonnie O’Hare (Beaten Tracks)
The roots of funk run deep through his selections of dusty grooves, basement jazz and world beats. This aficionado fuses the sounds of blues and soul through to Latin.
Bugsy
Returning to Above the Beaten Track for the final time, expect the choicest cuts of funk, soul, afrobeat, hip-hop, reggae, ska and anything else with a groove from John Malone.
Established in 2008, Above the Beaten Track (AtBT) celebrated Liverpool’s and Merseyside’s creative grass roots scene, and was set up to redress the imbalance of the under-representation of emerging and under-the-radar live music and young creativity in the area. After four annual events, organisers took a break to review and develop AtBT, delivering two larger and well received events in 2014 and 2015, with Arts Council support.
The event grew and diversified from a small music festival into a large multi-arts event – a respected and well attended fixture on the festival calendar, with increased attendance, partners, arts, crafts, talks and more, as well as a rich musical programme at its core. AtBT’s educational programme also grew as young people from Merseyside were given opportunities to lean how to produce a live music event through work placements in areas such as marketing, event management and technical support.
The founders of AtBT have decided that now is the right time to give the festival the Liverpool send-off it deserves. In a statement, they said:
“Given the changing nature of Liverpool’s festival calendar, notably with the arrival of Liverpool International Music Festival, from a programming standpoint the AtBT event is not needed in the way it was so crucially back in 2008. With the rising prominence of Threshold Festival, LIMF, and the LIMF Academy, we have effectively achieved what we set out to in respect of the festival.
As such, we feel it would be fitting to celebrate with a final event, as well as offering one last opportunity for those previously involved to reconnect.”
The daytime event on 28th January will be followed by a free entry gig featuring Above the Beaten Track alumni, with live music and DJs. In the same vein as AtBT, it will also be an opportunity for a group of young people to experience producing a live event through the specially tailored work placements.
“AtBT is unquestionably one of the city’s most enjoyable, and reassuring displays of the sort of inventive, thrilling creativity you only get from the ground up” – Seven Streets