Live Music Event of the Year
The onstage music event of the year occurs in War Commemorative Park at the weekend as Basingstoke Live gets going and it’s all free. Make preparations for a couple of days of onstage music across 4 stages, spanning each music genre from blues to rock, reggae, metal, dance and pop, displaying the breadth of talent of usually Basingstoke bands and vocalists. However it is so much more than just a music event. Entertainment on the primary stage gets moving at 1pm on Sat. with Fairfield’s humanities Center’s World beat program, featuring a variety of dance and some music performances celebrating the various cultures and communities that contribute to Basingstoke.
Filling the primary stage’s headline spots are DJ crew Scratch Perverts on Sat., at 9.30pm, and Fortunate Soul on Sunday at 5.30pm. The 4 music promoters behind this year’s Dawn Stage are presenting a variety of MCs, DJs and other artists, and the 100 percent Tent is back with seventeen bands new to Basingstoke Live. The acoustic tones of budding artists will arise from the Unplgd! Stage, which is once more backed by Basingstoke’s youth volunteer program involved. The holiday, now in its 4th year, attracted about fifteen thousand folks last year and is funded by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.
For the 3rd year running, the stages, promoters, artists, volunteers, sponsors and traders are being co-ordinated by Drum Runners Trading, with some help from fellow members of the Basingstoke Live Forum.