Black Deer Festival announce line-up additions for 2021
Independent Americana and Country Music festival Black Deer announce some exciting new additions to the 2021 line-up, including Lucinda Williams, Drive-By Truckers and Colter Wall, and reveal the 2021 day splits
The stars of the Live Fire BBQ showcase, featuring Sam Evans & Shauna Guinn of Hang Fire Kitchen, BBC Food regular Genevieve Taylor, Ready Steady Cook’s Romy Gill and Countrywoodsmoke’s Marcus Bawdon plus many more have also been announced.
The three-day festival takes place on 18th-20th June 2021, returning to the historic Eridge Park, Kent featuring major artists including Wilco, The Waterboys, Robert Plant and The Dead South.
Black Deer is looking forward to welcoming Americana living legend and three-time Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Lucinda Williams to Eridge Park in 2021, along with Southern roots rocking heroes Drive-By Truckers and their politically charged alt-country, and Canadian cowboy Colter Wall who is set to provide country fans with his popular brand of western swing and waltzes. They’ll be joined by Midlands-via-Senegal modern soul singing sensation Jordan Mackampa, Philadelphia/L.A. vintage folk rockers Mt. Joy and critically acclaimed two-time Native American Music Award winner Samantha Crain.
The corner of Black Deer that is home to The Roadhouse is where you’ll feel the growl of the Americana counter-culture. Desertscene bring the best of underground psych and blues to the deer park and for 2021 ticketholders can expect more loud and heavy jams thanks to returning primal blues- rock duo The Picturebooks, Swedish rock’n’rollers Siena Root, the dark and hypnotic Indian Queens, the volume splitting riffs of Israeli three piece The Great Machine and psych rock exploration courtesy of Cheshire’s 1968.
Alongside the musical program, Black Deer Festival are once again cooking up a storm in their Live Fire Arena. Promising even more mouth-watering delights than were served up in 2019, Jon Finch and Ben Merrington - founders of Grillstock, the largest authentic BBQ festival outside of the US - are back curating the area, pioneering the Americana barbecue scene in the UK’s festival fields once again.
Set to transport Black Deer attendees to America’s deep south, Live Fire will see the very best chefs, pitmasters, butchers and woodsmen appear in their own fiery performance of cooking demonstrations and masterclasses that’ll both educate and inspire. For 2021, Live Fire chefs include Caravan’s Group Executive Chef Matt Burgess, former River Cottage chef, author and TV authority Tim Maddams, CountryWoodSmoke’s Marcus Bawdon, Hunter Gatherer Cook’s Nick Weston, founder of DeliVita wood-fired ovens Joe Formisano, Hang Fire Southern Kitchen’s Sam Evans & Shuana Guinn, owner of Bristol Fire School, chef and acclaimed best-selling author Genevieve Taylor, charcoal guru Whittle & Flame’s Matt Williams, chef, food writer and latest Ready Steady Cook star Romy Gill MBE, world class BBQ competition team Bunch Of Swines, Game and Flames’ hunt specialist and chef Cai ap Bryn, and Weber BBQ’s Head Grill Masters Dan Cooper and Gyles Foster.
And there’s even more to celebrate about Black Deer 2021:
Jackson Social – New for 2021, Black Deer will be launching Jackson Social - an adult only members bar. For an additional fee, festival goers can enjoy an outside covered seating area, cocktail bar, lounge seating, all day food options, phone charging, fancy toilets, fire pit, and DJs plus exclusive acoustic performances. There will be limited tickets available.
Full weekend tickets and day tickets are on sale via: https://blackdeerfestival.seetickets.com/tour/black- deer-festival-2021?src=PR
DAY SPLITS
FRIDAY
Wilco
Lucinda Williams
Imelda May
The Felice Brothers Shooter Jennings
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly Wade Bowen
The Picturebooks
Irish Mythen
The East Pointers Caroline Spence
Indian Queens
Midnight Skyracer
Steve Smyth
The Great Machine Prosperina
Alexander McKay
Black Deer Songwriter Session
SATURDAY
The Waterboys
Drive By Truckers
Jade Bird
The Milk Carton Kids Courtney Marie Andrews The Secret Sisters
Mt. Joy
Samantha Crain
Jack Broadbent
Madison Violet
Irish Mythen
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra Amy Montgomery
Josh Okeefe
The Goat Roper Rodeo band
1968
Benjamin Dakota Rogers
Isabella Coulstock
Lead Desert Blues
Black Deer Songwriter Session
SUNDAY
Saving Grace Feat RP The Dead South Colter Wall
Jordan Mackampa Police Dog Hogan William Prince
The Lost Bothers ASG
Irish Mythen Native Harrow Black Rainbows Siena Root
True Strays
Gorilla
Black Orchids
The Gospel Brunch feat. Powerhouse Gospel Choir David Migden & The Twisted Roots
Black Deer Songwriter Session