Hi All

We are delighted to announce the next set of bands for this year's festival to be held on October 4th to 6th at Lydney Town Hall, Gloucestershire. Sponsor and Hero tickets are available from www.summersend.co.uk

We are pleased to announce our Sunday evening line up which features a headline appearance from Dutch legends FOCUS. The current version of the band features two members from their classic 70s line up, organist / flautist Thijs Van Leer and drummer Pierre Van der Linden alongside long-term bassist Bobby Jacobs and inspirational guitarist Menno Gootjes. The band released new album Focus X at the end of 2012 to great acclaim.
www.focustheband.com

FRAGILE FEATURING CLAIRE HAMILL will be taking the "special guest" slot on Sunday evening but will be closing the festival. This new version of one of the world's best-known Yes tributes (having played with both Steve Howe and Alan White) features keyboard player Max Hunt and of course the lead vocal skills of the legendary Claire Hamill, who played the festival back in 2007 as a solo artist. Expect a set of brilliantly-played Yes classics from a crack 5 piece band - and some solo Hamill material thrown in - to give the last set of the festival a prog-party feel!
www.yestribute.co.uk

We can also announce our two opening bands. First of all we open the Saturday of the festival with another Dutch band SILHOUETTE one of the most requested bands we have ever had over the years. The bands superb new album "Across the Rubicon" - their third - was released last Summer.
www.silhouetteband.nl

Finally for this update we announce that SEAN FILKINS AND BAND will open the Sunday of the festival. Sean is currently working on new material following the huge success of his synphonic prog debut "War and Peace and other Stories" in 2011.
www.seanfilkinsmusic.co.uk

The current line up:

Focus (Holland) www.focustheband.com
Sylvan (Germany) www.sylvan.de
Fragile featuring Claire Hamill (UK) www.yestribute.co.uk
Landmarq (UK) www.landmarq.net
Overhead (Finland) www.overhead-band.com
Deeexpus (UK) www.deeexpus.com
Jump (UK) www.jumprock.co.uk
Thumpermonkey (UK) www.thumpermonkey.com
Silhouette (Holland) www.silhouetteband.nl
Sean Filkins (UK) www.seanfilkinsmusic.co.uk

Hero and Sponsor tickets are already available from: www.summersend.co.uk. Our next announcements will feature news of out Saturday evening line up, the complete day schedules and details of other ticket types.

• "Summers End Hero" ticket - for those that really want to support the festival. Purchasers will get a standard weekend ticket, a sponsors T-shirt plus a special "surprise" to be announced. £100
• Sponsors Ticket - for those that want to put a little extra into the festival. Recipients will get a special sponsors T-shirt. £85

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Plus the old group at:
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www.twitter.com/summersendfest
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