Farmfest Announces 2016 Line Up

Young Fathers, Gilles Peterson, Kowton, Lone, Jon K, GoGo Penguin, The Hot 8 Brass Band and more will all play sets at the Somerset based festival on Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th of July this year. The festival was founded eleven years ago and has grown in size as its capacity has evolved from 400 to 5000. Comedy, spoken word, art and theatre are also all represented in full force at the festival. Tickets are on sale HERE.
Listen to an exclusive set of eleven tracks for each of the eleven years of Farmfest below. Listen Here:
LIVE
Young Fathers
GoGo Penguin
The Hot 8 Brass Band
Bentley Rhythm Ace
My Baby (Holland)
Shilpa Ray (US)
Desert Sound Colony
Holy Two (France)
Plastic Mermaids
Haiku Salut
Antimatador
Matuki
Afriquoi
ThisisDA
The Flamenco Thief
Titus Monk
Passion Bel Canon
[More TBA]
DJs
Gilles Peterson
Lone (live)
Lefto
Kowton
Jon K (Hoya:Hoya)
Franklin (Freerange Records)
Shapes stage hosts (headliners TBA)
Crucial & Fresh takeover
The Civilisation of the Rough takeover
Vintage Mobile Disco ‘Soul Express’ stage
The Ransomnote takeover
[More TBA]
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