Delighted to add another “Acoustic Session” venue to the Crossing The Tyne Festival Programme today – at Juke Shed Bar, North Shields: Venue 19!
– Is it the Council?
– Or have you got charitable funding or business sponsorship?
None of the above!
– Performers deserve to be paid and need to earn a living.
Please see the Festival Programme section: Maps, Travel and Transport
There are lots of ways to contact Steve Willis, Festival Organiser – please see the Festival Contact Page – or use this Contact Form:
This is the correct short url: bit.ly/CrossingTyneFestMap
“I accidentally linked to my private, editing view of the Festival Google Map instead of the Public View!”
This has now been corrected in Festival website Pages and Posts (please reinstate my supply of bananas, Steve Willis!)
There is a new “Accessibility” Page on the Festival website – but not much information on it as yet.
These venues have access information on their websites:
The venues below have not published accessibility information.
Can you help us to give performers and visitors more info?
We are trusting you not to vote on a venue more than once!
The website “Attitude is Everything” (improving deaf and disabled people’s access to live music) has some good tips on Accessibility Information that people find useful.
If you are a venue with Accessibility Info that you would like us to add to the website – please get in touch!
Many thanks in advance for your help!
There is a new section on the Festival Programme Page with info about how to get to, and get around, the Festival.
This is what it looks like . . .
Select the image to go to the map then click on the place-markers for info about Events and get directions:
Short url for map: http://bit.ly/CrossingTyneFestMap
Looking forward to meeting some if not all of you at the Festival!
Please do let us know if you spot any errors or have any questions or comments.
Steve Willis
Festival Organiser
The Festival Programme is taking shape and is being continually updated with new venues and details!
Steve Willis, Festival Organiser, is hard at work putting the “rotational plan” for Performers together – we know lots of you like to make the most of the day by playing at more than one venue!
This is a particular challenge when people are playing on The Ferry and on dry land – making sure you have time to get to the Ferry for your slot.
Performance “turnaround times” on the Ferry are very tight!
Some good advice from Ray Rowley, Host for “Music on The Ferry”, to make sure that you get maximum “play time” on The Ferry:
We will be creating the Festival Facebook Events very soon and will be inviting “Co-Hosts”.
This year we are going to use a standard format for “Event Cover Banners” so that people can easily identify Crossing The Tyne Festival Events. (A couple of venues have already created Facebook Events so we might not hit the 100% mark on this one!)
Venue Hosts: please make full use of your Facebook Event to spread the word, invite friends. keep people updated, etc.
This is what the Facebook Event Banners will look like – very plain but all the info that anyone needs if just the image gets shared 🙂
We have been ferreting out your photos and videos as a reminder of just how GREAT the Crossing The Tyne Festival was in 2017!
Check out this page! 2017 Festival
We have started adding pages for some of last year’s events too . . .
. . . Looking forward to seeing all the photos and videos from the Crossing The Tyne Festival 2018 on Saturday 25th August!
Crossing The Tyne Festival – a Great Exhibition of The North Event!
Contact Steve Willis, Festival Organiser
Or see our CONTACT PAGE for other ways to get in touch
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Steve Willis
Crossing The Tyne Festival Organiser
Timmerman Music
Only six weeks to go now before the next Crossing The Tyne Festival!
Thank you to everyone who has already been in touch to say you would like to perform on Saturday 25th August.
We are still taking names and you can contact us in LOTS of ways – please see the Festival Contact Page
If you are on Facebook then an easy way to give us your name, or the name of your band, is to add it to this Poll that Lesley Tan has set up in the “Crossing The Tyne Festival Group”: click through to add your name
If you have not already done so, please contact Liz Panton directly using the “Strum on The Tyne” Contact Form
We have started updating the Festival Programme Page with information about venues and hosts/organisers for 2018. This will include links to Facebook Events created for specific venues.
Updating the Festival Programme is ongoing as there are often changes in the run-up to the Festival. To date, there are many venues listed as “TBC” (To Be Confirmed) but only because we do not have full details yet. We will post short “News Updates” to let you know when more details are added to the Festival Programme Page.
Everyone who has contributed to past Festivals, or will participate this year, can rightly feel very proud that the Crossing The Tyne Festival has been recognised as source of inspiration by The Great Exhibition of The North!
Last year we raised over £700 for Oxfam in partnership with Oxjam Newcastle. This year we are fundraising for Metro Radio – Cash for Kids.
Congratulations to Steve, who with support from Generator, now has his own rather fetching website: “Timmerman Music“!
Steve has created and led the Festival with a massive amount of inspiration, enthusiasm and energy plus considerable coordination and organisational skills over the last four years. All that and buckets of diplomacy in managing to pull together a scattered team of volunteers, rally countless venues, hosts/organisers and performers on both sides of the river and on the Ferry – raising thousands of pounds for Festival charities along the way.
This will grow in size as we get closer to the Festival and we all seem to have multiple roles – but a big thank you is due to Dannielle Keys, for making the fliers that have got us rolling advertising the Festival this year!
Derrin Atkins
Jan Buglass
Dannielle Keys
Liz Panton
Ray Rowley
Lesley Tan
Crossing The Tyne Festival 2017 was a great success! Many thanks to EVERYONE who contributed – on both sides of The Tyne and on The Tyne. In North and South Shields, in Gateshead and Newcastle and on the Nexus Ferry!
Many thanks to the Performers, Festival Admin, the Venues, the Event Organisers and Hosts – to everyone who came along and made this such wonderful day and helped to raise funds for a good cause! The sun shone down and smiled on us too!
Many thanks also to everyone who has shared their photos and videos so that we can share them with you!
We will be posting highlights from 2017 but in the meantime you can see photos and videos on our Facebook Festival Page, Group and Facebook Events – and on the “Top Tourist” blog here! Crossing The Tyne Festival 2017
We have already started planning for next year!
Our new charity for 2018 will be “Cash for Kids ” as supported by Metro Radio
Come along, join in, have a great time and help raise funds for another very good cause!
Steve Willis
Festival Organiser
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The Met Office is supporting The Crossing The Tyne Festival! The weather is on our side!
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