Tickets for Fairport's Cropredy Convention, billed as Britain's friendliest music festival, go on sale this month. The organisers also confirm that internationally acclaimed dub-reggae collective Easy Star All-Stars will be playing at the three-day festival.Fairport's Cropredy Convention takes place on Thursday 12, Friday 13 and Saturday 14 August 2010 at its usual farmland location north of Banbury, Oxfordshire, three miles from Junction 11 of the M40 motorway.
The festival offers three-day (Thurs, Fri and Sat), two-day (Fri and Sat), and Saturday-only tickets with discounts for early purchase. Tickets can be bought online from Fairport's website (fairportconvention.com) or by post from PO Box 8413, Bilsthorpe, Notts NG22 8WY.
With Easy Star All-Stars announced, the 2010 Cropredy line-up is complete - 20 acts will perform for 30-odd hours over the weekend.
Festival co-organiser Simon Nicol, lead singer with Fairport Convention, says: "Easy Star All-Stars might seem a bit left-field for Cropredy but we always put on a very wide range of music to appeal across genres and generations. Last year, Dreadzone (another dub-reggae band) was the surprise hit of the festival and we are sure All-Stars will be just as popular with the crowd. And with us, of course - we're big fans too."
Based in New York, Easy Star All-Stars have a worldwide following and have played in 25 countries on six continents. Their re-working of classic material has produced three of the best-selling reggae albums of the last decade - Dub Side of the Moon, RadioDread and Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band
