Yellow Bus stage at Freedom Festival
4th - 6th September 2015
J-Night is proud to be a creative partner for Freedom Festival Hull. Freedom Festival is the biggest arts and culture event in Hull, the next UK City of Culture. Established in 2008 to celebrate Hull’s historic links to the cause of freedom, this leading street festival features music, dance, theatre, comedy.
Since 2009, our Yellow Bus stage has featured artists including Naturally7, Roland Gift, Ruby Turner, Akala, Empirical, Arun Ghosh and many more, bringing fantastic live music to the streets of Hull.
For 2015 we’re delighted to bring the Yellow Bus back to the pier again, featuring a stellar line-up headlined by Public Service Broadcasting, one of the most exciting UK live acts of recent years. Their uniquely spell-binding live AV Transmissions see them weave samples from old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material around live drums, guitar, banjo and electronics. For Freedom Festival PSB will be performing tracks from new album The Race for Space and their debut Inform – Educate – Entertain.
Our Friday night headliners are Acid Jazz legends James Taylor Quartet, bringing their incredible Hammond-driven live set to Hull for the first time in 8 years. On Sunday 6th September, we end on a high with the electrifying house-meets-gospel sound of the incredible House Gospel Choir.
Our Yellow Bus stage line up continues on Saturday 5th September with Get The Blessing and their monstrously infectious beats and thumping tunes, double MOBO Award-winner YolanDa Brown with her gorgeous Reggae Love Songs and bass maestro Shri presents Just a Vibration, a new collaboration bringing together the worlds of Indian Classical music and the traditional brass band.
Mr Wilson's Second Liners will be getting the party started on the Yellow Bus on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th September. Their mischievous take on the New Orleans Second Line tradition celebrates the diehard days of the Hacienda and 90s club culture.
On Sunday 6th September, Bugalu Foundation will have Nelson Street jumping with their infectious Barrio Funk and Latin Soul and, in a new J-Night commission for Freedom Festival, great Manchester reggae volcalist Trevor Roots fronts Dread Supreme in a tribute to the great political songwriters of yesteryear.
We’re also very excited to be presenting two very special shows in the beautiful Holy Trinity Church as part of Freedom Festival 2015. The multi-award winning musical spectacle Tubular Bells for Two sees two crazy bare-foot Aussies wield over 20 instruments to faithfully recreate Mike Oldfield’s epic 1973 masterpiece. It's a thrilling, tight-rope piece of music theatre not to be missed!
Head over to the Freedom Festival website for this year's full line-up.
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What's on
- Tubular Bells for Two
- 4 Sep at Holy Trinity Church
- James Taylor Quartet
- 4 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Mr Wilson's Second Liners
- 4 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Minima - The Phantom of the Opera
- 4 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Shri presents Just A Vibration
- 5 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- YolanDa Brown
- 5 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Hillbilly Troupe
- 5 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Get the Blessing
- 5 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Bossa Revista
- 5 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Public Service Broadcasting
- 5 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Trevor Roots & Dread Supreme
- 6 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- House Gospel Choir
- 6 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull
- Bugalu Foundation
- 6 Sep at Yellow Bus Stage at Freedom Festival Hull