Crossing The Tyne Festival 2018
This is our fourth year! There will be FREE afternoon and evening events on Saturday 25th August in North and South Shields, on The Shields Ferry and at the Ferry Terminal on the South Side. Festival Charity 2018: Metro Radio “Cash for Kids”.
- Extra! Pre-festival event – Friday 24th
- Lovaine Community Garden, North Tyneside
- Extra! Post-festival event – Saturday 25th evening
- Ticketed event: “A Circle of Five” at The Cluny2 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
This Page is continuously updated in the run up to the Festival . . .
The following might not be quite as up to date with Running Orders for Venues but are well worth a look . . .
- the Crossing The Tyne Festival Facebook Page
- the Festival Facebook Group – general discussion about the Festival
- list of ALL Festival Facebook Events – individual Events are the best place to find updates from Event Hosts!
- Twitter @CrossingTheTyne
Festival Venues – Google Map & Directions
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
Nexus: Bus, Ferry, Metro & Rail
- Nexus Website: Bus, Ferry, Metro & Rail
- Plan your journey: Nexus Live Travel Map
- Shields Ferry Times
- Ferry Timetable to print
- Ferry and Landings: Access and Safety
Transport North East
- Transport North East: Traffic, Maps, Journey Times, Car parks, etc
- Twitter: @NELiveTraffic
- Travel Links
Sustrans
- Sustrans Cycling and Walking Routes
- North Shields Ferry Terminal Map & Routes
- South Shields Ferry Terminal Map & Routes
Venue Numbers and Letters
- Venue Numbers – will be on the Festival Map
- (F) = Ferry
- (N) = North Shields
- (S) = South Shields
- (NC) = Newcastle
- TBC = “To Be Confirmed”
Venues, Times and Hosts
The Venues are grouped by location on this page, then listed alphabetically:
Venue 1 (F) Music on The Ferry
- Shields Ferry Times
- Ferry Timetable to print
- Access Info: Ferry and Landings: Access and Safety
Venue 1a (F) Ferry – Boarding North Shields
Music on The Ferry – North to South Crossings
- Boarding Times North Shields:
- 12:00 Renata and Trev
- 12:30 Valerie and Micky
- 1:00 Wagjammer
- 1:30 Jan Buglass
- 2:00 The Dolls (Girl Band)
- 2:30 The Hat Band
- 3:00 Pete Shaw
- 3:30 Marty Harris with Andy Hogg of The Auld Vagabonds
- 4:00 LIVnG
- 4:30 The Byker Hillbillies
- 5:00 Anne Christie
- 5:30 The River Beat Band
- Host: Ray Rowley
- Facebook Event
- Location: Ferry – Boarding North Shields
- Access: Venue 1 (F) Music on The Ferry: Access Info
1b (F) Ferry – Boarding South Shields
Music on The Ferry – South to North Crossings
- Boarding Times South Shields:
- 12:15 Luke Oz Granlund
- 12:45 Neil McBride
- 1:15 Louis Hair
- 1:45 Hek
- 2:15 Brief Encounter Duo
- 2:45 Afnan Prince
- 3:15 Jim Wigfield
- 3:45 Arid Fool
- 4:15 Steampunk Allotment
- 4:45 Matty Rayson
- 5:15 Kitchy Retro
- 5:45 Jim Bullock & Pete Chapman
- Host: Ray Rowley
- Facebook Event
- Location: Ferry – Boarding South Shields
- Access: Venue 1 (F) Music on The Ferry: Access Info
Venue 2 (S) Ferry Landing Terminal – South Side
Jam Along / Open Stage
- 12:00 – 6:00
- 1:30 TBC
- 2:00 Open Stage / Fun Stage!
- 2:30 Arid Fool
- 3:00 Open Stage / Fun Stage!
- Host: Dave “Danger” Brown
- Facebook Event
- Location: SEE ABOVE
- Access: Venue 2 (S) Ferry Landing Terminal – South Side: Access Info
Newcastle Venue
Venue 9 (NC) The Cluny 2, Newcastle
Extra Event: Saturday evening Concert
7pm – ticketed! £6:00
A Circle of Five
- 7:00
- A Circle of Five
- Special Guest Appearance by
- Host: Steve Willis (Timmerman Music)
- Facebook Event
- Location:
The Cluny2
36 Lime Street,
Ouseburn
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 2PQ - Tickets: £6
- Access: contact venue
North Shields Venues
Venue 13 (N) The Bell and Bucket
Music at The Bell & Bucket
- 1:30 – 5:30
- 1:30 Nick Gladdish
- 2:00 Steampunk Allotment
- 2:30 Byson Green
- 3:00 The Byker Hillbillies
- 3:30 Fool’s Gold
- 4:00 Julie Grant
- 4:30 Johnny B Goode
- 5:00 Simma Singer
- Host:
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Bell & Bucket
37 Norfolk St
North Shields
NE30 1NQ - Access:
Venue 13 (N) The Bell and Bucket: Rated accessible (On The Case Music)
Venue 4 (N) The Exchange
Music at The Exchange
- 12:00 – 6:30 (25 minute sets)
- 12:00 Hek
- 12:35 Paul Urbanowicz
- 1:05 JohnE Thornton
- 1:35 Nick Reeves
- 2:05 Byker Hillbillies
- 2:35 Nick Gladdish
- 15min Interval
- 3:15 Steve Pledger
- 3:45 Muddy Line
- 4:15 Lydia Bennet
- 4:45 Brief Encounter Duo
- 5:15 Toni Sidgwick
- Host: Jonathan Woodward
- Facebook Event
- Location:
The Exchange
Howard St
North Shields
NE30 1SE - Access: Venue 4 (N) The Exchange
- Full wheelchair access to bar and music venues
Venue 19 (N) Juke Shed Bar
Acoustic Session
- 12:00 – 6:00 TBC
- 12:00 Acoustic Session
- 2:00 Tex Johnson (of Tex and The Dukes)
- 2:30 Michael Jax
- 3:00 Matty Rayson
- 3:30 Acoustic Session
- Host: TBC
- Facebook Event
- Location:
16 Union Quay
North Shields
NE30 1HJ - Access: contact venue
Venue 8 (N) Lovaine Community Garden
Extra event – Friday 24 Aug 6:30pm until late
Acoustic Session / Open Stage
- Fri 24th: 6:30 – Late!
- Host: Wendy Young
- Facebook Event
- Facebook Page: Lovaine Community Garden
- Location:
Lovaine Community Garden
Junction of Cecil Street and Lovaine Place
North Shields
NE29 0DH - Access:
- Wheelchair-friendly
- No toilets
Venue 11 (N) Low Lights Tavern
Music at the Low Lights Tavern
- 2:30 – Late!
- 2:30 Brook Miller
- 3:00 Brief Encounter Duo
- 3:30 Anne Christie
- 4:00 Michael Jax
- 4:30 Meantime
- 5:00 Another Penny
- 5.30 The River Coasters
- 6:00 Kitchy Retro
- 6:30 (Break: Stage set up for River Beat)
- 7:00 The Riverbeat Band
- Jam Along / Open Stage
- Host: Bongo Bob
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Low Lights Tavern
Brewhouse Bank
North Shields
NE30 1LL - Access: contact venue
Venue 15 (N) Oddfellows
Folk Session, Sets & Spots
- 2:00 – Late!
- 1:30 Marty Harris with Andy Hogg of The Auld Vagabonds
- 2:00 Matty Rayson
- 2:30 Richard Ridley of Devils Water
- 3:00 Paul Allan
- 3:30 Tony Szymanski
- 4:00 Anne Lee
- 4:30 Jim Wigfield
- 5:00 Jan Buglass / Louis Hair
- 5:30 Stephen Torrance
- Host (until 6:00): Paul Allan
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Oddfellows
7 Albion Road
North Shields
NE30 2RJ - Access: contact venue
Venue 6 (N) Old Low Light Heritage Centre
Music at The Old Low Light
- 1:00 – TBC
- 1:00 Mouths of The Tyne Community Choir
- 1:35 Jim Alexander
- 2:00 Tom O’Donnell
- Host:
- Guy Moody: The Old Low Light Heritage Centre
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Old Low Light Heritage Centre
Clifford’s Fort
North Shields Fish Quay
NE30 1JA - Access:
Venue 6 (N) Old Low Light Heritage Centre: Access Info
Venue 5 (N) The Magnesia Bank
Strum on The Tyne – Ukulele Festival
- 12:00 – 6:00
- Uke Festival Opener:
- 12:00 – 12:30 Stage 1. Rea Browne
Jazz & Blues Baritone Uke - 12:35 – 12:50 Stage 2. Rik Hoskin
- 12:55 – 13:20 Stage 1. Low Fell Ukes
- 13:25 – 13:40 Stage 2. OPEN STAGE
- 13:45 – 14:10 Stage 1. Central Bar Ukulele Players
- 14:15 – 14:30 Stage 2. Richard Taylor
- 14:35 – 15:00 Stage 1. Somewhere Beyond C
- 15:05 – 15:30 BREAK
- 15:35 – 16:00 Stage 1. Bay Uke
- 16:05 – 16:20 Stage 2. The Tuesdays
- 16:25 – 16:50 Stage 1. Dam Jammers
- 16:55 – 17.20 Stage 2. Patrick Lawrence (Detroit Tourist Board)
- 12:00 – 12:30 Stage 1. Rea Browne
- Top of The Bill:
- 5:30 – 6:00 Stage 1. Colin Bourdiec
One of the UK’s Leading George Formby Tribute Acts!
- 5:30 – 6:00 Stage 1. Colin Bourdiec
- Host: Liz Panton
- Facebook Event: Strum on The Tyne 2018
- Location:
The Magnesia Bank
1 Camden St
North Shields
NE30 1NH - Access:
Venue 5 (N) Magnesia Bank- Level access to venue
- Toilets not wheelchair accessible
Venue 16 (N) Pie & Bottle Shop
Music at The Pie & Bottle Shop
- 2:30 – 6:00
- 2.30 Marty Harris with Andy Hogg of The Auld Vagabonds
- 3.00 Callum Patterson
- 3.30 Kewen
- 4.00 Neil McBride
- 4.30 Tex Johnson (of Tex and The Dukes)
- 5.15 Matty Rayson
- Host: Callum Patterson
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Pie & Bottle Shop
65 West Percy Street
North Shields
NE29 0DJ - Access: contact venue
Venue 14 (N) Pub & Kitchen
Music at The Pub & Kitchen
- 1:30 – Late!
- 1:30 The Hat Band
- 2:00 Hayley Ellen Watson
- 2:30 Bugman
- 3:00 Calum David Tordoff
- 3:30 Jim & Marilyn Gibson
- 4:00 Steve Pledger
- 4:30 Lee McDade
- 5:00 Brook Miller
- Host: Larry Page
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Pub & Kitchen
13-14 Albion Rd
North Shields
NE30 2RJ - Access: contact venue
South Shields Venues
Venue 3 (S) Alum Ale House
Bands & Buskers
- 12:00 – 5:00 (25 minute sets)
- 12:45 Luke Oz Granlund
- 1:15 Neil McBride
- 1:45 Misti
- 2:15 Steve Pledger
- 2:45 Twice Brewed
- 3:15 Pete Shaw
- 3:45 The River Beat Band
- 4:15 Marty Harris with Andy Hogg of The Auld Vagabonds
- Host: Rick Rippoffski
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Alum Ale House
1 Ferry Street
South Shields
NE33 1JR - Access: contact venue
Venue 7 (S) The Holborn Rose & Crown
Bands & Buskers
- 3:30 – 6:30
- 3:30 The Claptouts
- 4:00 Kitchy Retro
- More to follow – then Jam Along / Open Stage until 6:30
- Host: Jenn Cherene
- Facebook Event
- Location:
The Holborn Rose & Crown
101-103 Hill Street
South Shields
NE33 1RN - Access: contact venue
Venue 18 (S) Queen Vic
Band Zone
- 1:30 – 5:00 (ish!)
- Playlist:
- 1:30 Arid Fool
- 2:00 Wagjammer
- 2:30 Angel Beast
- 3:00 The Violet Bunnies
- 3:30 The Hat Band
- 4:00 Sapien Trace
- 4:30 Devilswater
- Host: Stephen “Oxjam” Ferrell
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Queen Vic
78 Victoria Road
South Shields
NE33 4 NQ - Access: contact venue
Venue 12 (S) St Hilda’s Pithead
The Stanza: Poets
- 1:00 – 3:00
- Poets:
- Harry Gallagher and Bridget Gallagher
- Here 2Day (Keith Blackburn and Gerti Roxburgh)
- Ken Brady
- Tony Gadd
- Renata and Trev
- + Open Stage
- Hosts:
- Facebook Event: The Stanza @ Crossing The Tyne Festival
- Facebook: St Hilda’s Pithead Community
- Location:
St Hilda’s Colliery
Henry Robson Way
South Shields
NE33 1RF - Access: contact venue
Venue 17 (S) The Steamboat
Unplugged Acoustic Session
- 12:00 – 6:00-ish!
- Host: Ethan Bruce
- Facebook Event
- Location:
Steamboat Pub
27 Mill Dam
South Shields
NE33 1EQ - Access: contact venue
Venue 10 (S) The Word
All Woman Stage
- 12:00 – 3:30
- Playlist (25 min sets):
- 12:00 The Dolls
- 12:30 Sanila Iftikhar
- 1:00 Valerie Fairless
- 1:30 Celia Bryce
- 2:00 Jan Buglass
- 2:30 Misti
- 3:00 LIVnG
- Host: Steve Willis (Timmerman Music)
- Facebook Event
- Location:
The Word
Market Place
South Shields
NE33 1JF - Access:
Venue 10 (S) The Word: Access Info
Who to contact:
Performers:
- Please try to contact the Event Host for your venue in the first instance if you have any questions, need to let them know about any changes, etc.
- Otherwise, you can contact us:
- using the Contact Form
- by email crossingthetynefestival AT gmail.com
- on our Facebook Page
- in our Facebook Group
- on Twitter @CrossingTheTyne
- Thank you for being so generous with your time and talents!
Public:
- You can contact the Festival Organisers here – or see the links to Events and Pages above (these are mostly on Facebook).
- Hope you can make it along – you will have a great time!
Crossing Tyne Festival 2018
– a Free Festival fundraising for “Cash For Kids“
– a “Great Exhibition of The North – Inspired By” Event!
Comments or Questions?
If there are any errors on this page or you have any questions or comments, please leave a public comment on this page or send us a private message using the Contact Form.
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