PRESTEIGNE’S famous Sheep Music Festival is back this year — but under a different guise. Dome Alone 2010 will take place over two weekends and will be held in a big dome in Wentes Meadow.
The Wild Summer Evenings in Wentes Meadow, have numerous acts lined up including Extra Curricular, Jangle, Brassroots, Black Sheep with White Sheep, Samsara, Smerins Anti-Social Club and Molotov Jukebox.
Sheep music now has more than 15 years of history to its name since starting as a party on The Warden around 1992. Since moving to its current site at Wentes Meadow in the mid 1990s it has grown into a large and respected music festival – in the past attracting 6,000 visitors a day.
After last year’s soulfully satisfying but slightly soggy festival, Sheep Music 2010 is a smaller but perfectly-formed event, or rather four of them which is a lightly different lay out to the usual three-day festival.
Andrew Sterry, Dome Alone event director and Sheep Music chairman said that the group had decided to go for something smaller due to changes in the personal situation of many of the volunteers, which the events are so dependant on, however, he added that this was not going to affect the quality and enjoyment of the two weekends.
Mr Sterry said: “It’s important to keep sheep music alive in mid Wales and it’s important that we can reinvent ourselves. Sheep music has a great reputation for world, funk, jazz and folk music being brought to Mid Wales.
“It’s still a community run event which brings hundreds of people.”