JOHNNY Marr, Richard Thompson, the Waterboys and a Zulu band singing Irish songs in a Birmingham park meant the Moseley Folk Festival seemed to have it all.
With such a high calibre of headliners, this, the most intimate of folk festivals, was always going to be something special.
It’s the venue setting that houses the three-day party, however, that truly makes Moseley one of the summer’s special festivals. A pocket park, hidden away in one of the most densely populated areas of the West Midlands, the venue is only a stones throw away from the centre of Birmingham.
Housed in something of a natural amphitheatre, the stage is set at the bottom of a slopping green bank and surrounded by a crescent of trees.
Behind the stage is a small lake which hosts a boat house and a range of public art features as the more than one hundred year old park certainly comes to life for the annual folk festival.
Friday night headliner Johnny Marr didn’t disappoint and was joined on stage by long-time friend Billy Duff, guitarist with the Cult, for a very special version of the Clash classic I Fought The Law.
Richard Thomson brought Saturday night alive and a relaxed Sunny afternoon was broken with an explosion of sound when Lau took to the stage ahead of the Waterboys bringing the festival to a close.
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