What's happening and where
Buckingham Ukelele Group
Dave will be playing his music on stage from 4.30pm in the Market Square as a lead up to the Lights Switch-On
Jack Graves
Jack Graves is a 21 year old solo-artist from Milton Keynes, England. He is well known for having a really specific sound, that is difficult to select a singular genre to. Perhaps the best way to describe his music is by naming his biggest inspirations, 'Jason Isbell and the 400 unit' and 'Jake Bugg'.
Performance live since 2017, with the original track “UK” being aired on BBC Three Counties Radio
The AcaBellas
The Grand Union
In 2023 Andy Gilbert, well known for his slide guitar playing, formed an exciting new 7-piece band, The Grand Union, a union of different nationalities, races and languages.
With 5 singers in the band, including French guitarist, Anita Esteve-Spencer, they were able to focus on bringing harmony to the worlds of country and rock ’n’ roll (with a country flavour), whilst also performing to multi-cultural audiences in French, Arabic, Hebrew, and, of course, English.
Following Andy’s appearance on BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live last July, he has led the band from strength to strength, playing concerts, pubs, and Stony’s own folk club, The Song Loft. They also got the audience dancing at award-winning One World Club, which Andy revived last year after a 6-year break (in 2012 The Commission for Racial Equality awarded One World Club an award for diversity in the community).
But this performance will be all in English, bringing their rockin’ harmonies together with songs like When will I be loved
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and
Every Time I Roll The Dice
The Tone Rangers
The Tone Rangers are a mixed a cappella quartet and sing in four part harmony, Amanda, Tina, Glenn & Pete have been singing together for over 7 years and have a wide ranging repertoire from Amazing Grace to Heard It Through The Grapevine and everything in-between.
We enjoy taking part in competitions and perform regularly at open mic nights, local shows and events.
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/TheToneRangersQuartet
DryWood
Phil Underwood and Denise Dryburgh are DryWood, a husband and wife duo from Stony Stratford singing lively, funny and soulful original and traditional songs accompanied by melodeons, concertina, fiddle, banjo, guitar and percussion. They perform at major festivals and concert venues and between them they have over 80 years of experience performing traditional music, mainly English, spiced up with a pinch of Americana, Blues, Cajun and World music. Having lived on the English canals they add a large dash of self-penned canal songs.
Mark Denman
Mark Denman is a Milton Keynes based Singer-Songwriter.
He was the opening acoustic act of the 50th Anniversary Folk On The Green and has recently collaborated with Stony Stratford based theatre company Carabosse. Mark wrote music and songs for their last 2 productions, Dracula and Madea.
Mark will be playing some songs from his new album ‘Abandoned Beauty’ along with some old favourites.