Headliners announced for Deer Shed 2023 in North Yorkshire with The Comet Is Coming on the bill

One of Britain's greatest indie music and arts festivals - held in North Yorkshire - has made its first announcement of exciting acts for its 2023 event.
By Graham Chalmers
Published 30th Nov 2022, 11:35 BST
Updated 2nd Dec 2022, 10:31 BST
Family-friendly, civilised and independent - Deer Shed Festival in North Yorkshire. (Picture Andrew Benge)Family-friendly, civilised and independent - Deer Shed Festival in North Yorkshire. (Picture Andrew Benge)
Family-friendly, civilised and independent - Deer Shed Festival in North Yorkshire. (Picture Andrew Benge)

The annual Deer Shed Festival - the family-friendly weekend event with a cutting-edge cultural programme and the sort of names usually nominated for a Mercury Prize - has revealed its main stage headliners for its 13th edition.

They are: acclaimed British jazz act The Comet Is Coming, the ground-breaking Public Service Broadcasting and legendary Scottish idie outfit The Delgados.

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Held each year on the last weekend of July, other acts unveiled for this family-run, independent feast of music and more include Gaz Coombes, The Big Moon, This Is The Kit, BCUC, Dream Wife, Gwenno, Rae Morris, Steam Down, W. H. Lung, Grove, Panic Shack, Plastic Mermaids, Rozi Plain, Skinny Pelembe and The Mary Wallopers.

Located at Baldersby Park near Masham, Deer Shed Festival organisers are delighted that early bird tickets for next year’s event have been selling well.

Megan Evans, festival director, said: “Bringing everybody together for a proper Deer Shed last summer was a really incredible thing.

"Everyone got right back into the swing of things. It was like we’d never been away.

"So now we’ll do it again!”

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"Early bird tickets were snapped up before we’d even announced a band which is really heartening in tough times for independent events like ours."

A three day wonderland of creativity that doesn’t forgo exciting and contemporary musical and cultural curation, Deer Shed Festival is an event carefully designed to be a brilliant experience for all ages.

Despite attracting audiences of 10,000 people, it remains a high quality festival for all - families, friends and fans.

While music remains at the heart of Deer Shed, the festival’s acclaimed comedy programme, Science Tent, Feral Farm, Wilderwild area, Workshops, Literature and Spoken Word Stage, Under 5’s activities, food vendors, film screenings, outdoor theatre, crafts, wellbeing activities, outdoor arts and Sports Field will all return in 2023 .

Deer Shed Festival13 will take place on July 28-31, 2023 at Baldersby Park.

For information and tickets, visit www.deershedfestival.com

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