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Drum Runners create, promote and run projects, workshops and performances using music, multi-media and the creative arts. From educational workshops to events management, we offer accessible short to long-term projects.

Please get in touch to discuss what we can do for you:

Jason Knight 

07843 348656

jason@drumrunners.org

Paul Midgley 

07932 448627

paul@drumrunners.org



About our work:

Utilising artists from a wide range of different cultures and genres of music - singers, drummers, musicians, dancers, dj’s and music technologists - Drum Runners tailor make workshops, projects and performances.

We work with schools (all ages), colleges, work places, immigration removal centres, community groups, youth clubs, special needs groups, SureStart centres, local authorities, theatres, voluntary organisations, festivals, police authorities, health authorities, sports centres and clubs, arts centres and housing associations.
We always encourage cross community partnerships.



Our current projects:

Basingstoke Live Festival – providing events management for Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council’s annual live music festival.

MID (Music in Detention) – providing monthly workshops and community exchanges in and around Immigration Removal Centres in both Gosport and Bedford with a wide range of artists. Supported by the national charity MID (www.musicindetention.org.uk)

SureStart – providing weekly series of both singing and percussion workshops for under 5’s and their families.

  

Basingstoke Live Festival 2008

Submitted by midge1 on 28 June 2008 - 4:12pm.
11 Jul 2008 - 19:30
13 Jul 2008 - 19:30
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A FREE Festival 

Basingstoke Live 2008 - Festival Poster - Print and share it with others!

Official Web Site

Fringe Programme starts on 7th July until 13th July (See attached PDF Document)

FRIDAY 11TH JULY

The ANVIL in association with Winchester Hat Fair presents heliosphere"The Heliosphere"

and "Be Amazed"  as a spectacular opening evening to the Festival. (See attached Link)

drumrunnerlogobig_0Drum Runners Trading - Jason Knight and Paul Midgley are very pleased to be involved with this years event and are co-ordinating the Saturday and Sundays creative content of the Festival and contract all performers and promoters and coordinate their work for the Festival weekend.

Thanks to everyones hard work this will truly be a great Festival!

HEADLINERS

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FULL LINE UP

SATURDAY 12TH JULY 

  

MAIN STAGE  

NEXT GENERATION

1300 Pan Everest 

1330 Chineham Park Choir

FAIRFIELDS WORLDBEAT

 1400 Urban Cheer

 1413 Hip Hop Dance

 1427 Cecila Wayar - Belly Dance

 1440 Vortex - Contemporary

 1448  Shao Lin Martial Arts

 1507 Bollywood Professional

 1520 Bollywood Young Students

 1528 Kathak

 1538 Odissi

 1550 Bollywood Adult Students

 1558 Bollywood Professional

 1608 World Music DJ - Andy Buchanan

 1624 Tango - Nigel and Susan

 1633 Salsa - Marianne

MELONHEADZ

 1715 Innocent Touch

 1800 The Lucky Pennies

 1845 This is Fiction

 1930 Enjoy Destroy

 2030 Revenue

 2115 Neville Staple (ex-The Specials)

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100% TENT

 1300  Fake The Attack!

 1355  Boydidgood

 1450  Thee Elks

 1535  Hello Wembley

 1630  The Bandinis

 1730  Bambu

 1830  The Marvels

 1930  Junk Yard Scientists

 2030  Quadrophonia (A Tribute to The Who)

 2200  Immerss

  

SUNRISE STAGE

 1300 Open MC's - MC Flows

 1400 Kung Slu and Nicky Lickshot

 1430 Jonny Virgo

 1500 Koze & Boiler

 1515 The Uplifter

 1545 the Author

 1615 Orange Rooms Productions / Coox n Hoox

 1700 XTC

 1715 Junkyard Scientists

 1745 The KO Kid

 1800 Lang / Cured

 1900 DirtyDropOutz

 2030 GDJ / Intuition UK

 2030 DJ Marlo / Intuition UK

 2130 DJ Innate / AudioBasho

 2130 DJ Kontra / Audio Basho

 2130 MC Felon

  

  

SUNDAY 13TH JULY  

  

MAIN STAGE  

NEXT GENERATION

 1300 Yesterdays Tomorrow

 1330 M & M Academy

 1350 The Priory - Extracts from Joseph The Technicolor Dreamcoat

 1410 Pan Everest

 1440 Jodie Steele

MELONHEADZ

 1515 Guns of Pig Alley

 1600 The Idol Machine

 1645 Phoenix

 1730 Lucifer Jazz and the Love Rats

 1815 Chas and Dave CHASNDAVETEXT

  

100% TENT

 1300 Some Like It Hot

 1345 Kalimoto

 1430 The Raz Brothers

 1515 Butterflies On Strings

 1600 Tim Kay

 1645 The Perishers

 1745 The Atom Gang

 1845 GCee

  

SUNRISE STAGE

 1300 Ashley Heyes

 1320 Paula Curtis

 1340 Robyn Leate

 1400 Nigel Rivers

 1425 Tammi-Jo Williams

 1450 Dennis Ness

 1515 Nadine White

 1545 Ellis Slater 

 1625 UnderDogs

 1700 David Doddington

 1740 New Rising

 1820 Bright White Light

 1900 Placid Storm

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