YOU CAN feel the blues at Scartop on August 9!

Eleven hours of music are on offer at the Moorlodge Country Retreat during the first Scartop Blues Festival.

Keighley blues singer Ben Blue Waters is organising the show and promises a different leading acoustic blues performer each hour.

Maxine Lodge, who runs Moorlodge,, hopes this will be the first of many major music events at the venue.

Moorlodge, at Scartop on the Colne road past Stanbury and Oldfield, has a tea room, a large function room and 22 holiday apartments.

It last year hosted a Halloween special as well as ...

Maxine said the function room was available for anything from parties and weddings to concerts, and the tea room had begun opening as a pub and bistro in the evenings for people staying in the apartments.

She said: “We were fully booked for the Tour de France which made us realise we needed to open in the evening. We’re also open to the public.

“This blues festival is the first big thing we’re doing. We hope it will be held outside, but if the weather is not good we have enough space inside.”

The show begins at noon with Ben – organiser of blues and roots nights in Keighley and Haworth –himself off his foot-stomping guitar blues.

Performances will continue until 11pm from the likes of Burnley singer-songwriter Lucy Zirins, Li’l Ian Goodsman, Diamond Dac, Alfie Steeleye Stockman and Martin Plock.

Ben said: “Alfie Steeleye Stockman from Beverley is an experienced blues man with a unique style.

“Li’l Ian Goodsman, from Lincolnshire, is a slide and fingerpicking wizard with a large fan base in his native New Zealand.

“He is currently making a name for himself on the European and British blues scene.

“Lucy has supported many internationally famous acts and is making big waves on the national blues scene.”

There will also be blues and ragtime from Gerry Cooper and Phil Snell, raw rootsy Delta and Chicago blues from Kingsdown Blues, upbeat music from Jed Wilson, and blues from Scottish troubadour Martin Plock.

Admission is free.

YOU CAN feel the blues at Scartop on August 9!

Eleven hours of music are on offer at the Moorlodge Country Retreat during the first Scartop Blues Festival.

Keighley blues singer Ben Blue Waters is organising the show and promises a different leading acoustic blues performer each hour.

Maxine Lodge, who runs Moorlodge,, hopes this will be the first of many major music events at the venue.

Moorlodge, at Scartop on the Colne road past Stanbury and Oldfield, has a tea room, a large function room and 22 holiday apartments.

It last year hosted a Halloween special as well as ...

Maxine said the function room was available for anything from parties and weddings to concerts, and the tea room had begun opening as a pub and bistro in the evenings for people staying in the apartments.

She said: “We were fully booked for the Tour de France which made us realise we needed to open in the evening. We’re also open to the public.

“This blues festival is the first big thing we’re doing. We hope it will be held outside, but if the weather is not good we have enough space inside.”

The show begins at noon with Ben – organiser of blues and roots nights in Keighley and Haworth –himself off his foot-stomping guitar blues.

Performances will continue until 11pm from the likes of Burnley singer-songwriter Lucy Zirins, Li’l Ian Goodsman, Diamond Dac, Alfie Steeleye Stockman and Martin Plock.

Ben said: “Alfie Steeleye Stockman from Beverley is an experienced blues man with a unique style.

“Li’l Ian Goodsman, from Lincolnshire, is a slide and fingerpicking wizard with a large fan base in his native New Zealand.

“He is currently making a name for himself on the European and British blues scene.

“Lucy has supported many internationally famous acts and is making big waves on the national blues scene.”

There will also be blues and ragtime from Gerry Cooper and Phil Snell, raw rootsy Delta and Chicago blues from Kingsdown Blues, upbeat music from Jed Wilson, and blues from Scottish troubadour Martin Plock.

Admission is free.