Friday 19th July to Sunday
21st July
2019
In and around the Pubs and
Streets of Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire
Form UK Blues Awards -
Best Blues Based Festival of the Year 2018
British Blues Awards
- Festival of the Year 2015 & 2016
Trevor Babajack
Steger
(Acoustic Stage Director and Acoustic Guitarist)
Selection of photos
on each day's photo gallery
(all photos by Alan White or
Sarah White - as labelled)
Friday
Trafficker
The Achievers
Saturday
Stone Mountain Sinners
Troy Redfern
Voodoo Sheiks
Chris Bevington Organisation
Never The Bride
Wille & The Bandits
Sunday
Birmingham Community Gospel Choir
Katie Bradley Band
Swampcandy
Buffa's Wake
Connor Selby
Dave Ferra Allstars
Wille & The Bandits
Troy Redfern
Nikki Lamborn, Never The Bride
Sarah Warren, Stone Mountain
Sinners
Maxine Brooks,
Birmingham Community Gospel Choir
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Review by Rosy Greer
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Memories ....
Upton Blues
Festival 2007 - The Year of the Floods
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2019 was the 12th
anniversary of Upton floods in 2007. Do you remember them,
were you there? I arrived early on the Friday and was
literally marooned in Upton until the Monday morning so
witnessed the worst flooding since 1947. Here are two photos
to show you what it was like. The first photo is the
campsite on Sunday 23rd July 2017 (bigger in 2019) followed by the same view
on Sunday 22nd July 2007. It's a caravan roof in the flooded
field! |
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Needless to say the
festival was cancelled but the Upton spirit soldiered on. As I
said in my 2007 review: "On a sunny Sunday afternoon, when
you can't get out of town because all the roads are flooded, and
you can't get a drink by the riverside because the bars are also
flooded, the only answer is to move the bar into the street and
have a party! Now to have a party you need music - Tipitina
(Debby Jones and Justin Randall) to the rescue!!"
Click here to see photos of the 2007
floods
Click here to see the 'Tipitina Street
Party'
Click here to see the full Upton 2007
photo gallery
Please excuse the old
format web pages for the 2007 festival, the website has had many
changes over the past 19 years, but it's all still online! |
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