Something To Smile About began last year as a one day festival and has expanded this year to a larger venue over three days at Hatfield Outdoor Activity Centre on the outskirts of Doncaster. The campsite is spacious, on flat land among lots of trees with decent facilities and plenty of parking space very close by.
A bargain of a weekend at £40 for tickets and reasonable prices for food and drink although you are welcome to bring your own if you need to watch the pennies. Bars provided by Abbeydale Brewery and The Meadevil Bar and good grub courtesy of Nan's Kitchen.Although mostly folk based the music over the weekend included rock, blues, punk, reggae and ska. Great performances from all artists with particularly good sets from Brad Dear, Ferocious Dog, Funke and the Two-Tone Baby, The Majestic, Parsons Lot, Willie and the Bandits, The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican and Taxi For Bob.
Additional late night acoustic jam sessions fired up after the main stage with The Leylines, Brad Dear and Phat Bollard along with members of various other bands making this one of the most enjoyable parts of the festival.
A huge thanks to Pete, Becky and all involved. A great weekend and we'll be back next year.
Thankyou kind sir!
ReplyDelete~Pete Sullivan