BRAND NEW FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND FOOD
12th & 13th SEPTEMBER 2009
As the sun sets on one of the hottest summers for a long time, star of BBC2’s Jimmy’s Farm Jimmy Doherty will be opening the famous Suffolk gates to host an extravaganza of mouth-watering food and feel-good music performances for Harvest at Jimmy’s.
Taking place in the heart of Suffolk, Jimmy’s Farm will be the setting for a two-day celebration of the best of British food. Harvest at Jimmy’s will showcase delicious, sustainable and freshly-made food, whilst revealing how the UK’s top chefs get the most from these ingredients through a series of master class cooking demonstrations from celebrity chefs James Martin, Gina D’Acampo, Gennaro Contaldo, James Wong and Anjum Anand. Jamie Oliver’s very own Fifteen Restaurant will be taking over the farm’s huge barn for the duration of the festival providing an interactive Jamie Oliver experience for visitors.
Harvest at Jimmy’s will provide the perfect musical line-up for an Indian summer with headline performances from platinum-selling KT Tunstall who will be giving her only performance of the summer, Ivor Novello award-winning Athlete, internationally-renowned José González, the Mercury Prize-winning Badly Drawn Boy and folk sensation Seth Lakeman, providing a blissed-out musical backdrop as the Harvest moon comes out.
In addition to the delectable treats on offer from Jimmy’s top chef friends, there will also be a farmers’ market set in the farm’s courtyard celebrating the best local produce and encouraging visitors to support our British farmers. Set on a real working farm, visitors to Harvest at Jimmy’s will also enjoy the Jimmy’s Farm Nature Trails, Woodland Walks, beautiful gardens, adventure play area – not to mention a dedicated programme of inspirational kid’s entertainment. Whilst food-lovers will relish the opportunity to nose around the Farm Shop which sells the free-range produce of the farm.
Jimmy says: “This is a very special festival which we hope will be the first of many. To have some of the country’s finest chefs like James Martin, Gennaro Contaldo and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen cooking for us will be a real treat and will showcase our locally sourced food at its best.”
Event organiser Dominic Gomez, of Big Wheel Promotions adds: “We’re delighted to announce the details of the first ever Harvest at Jimmy’s. With such a unique combination of the UK’s finest chefs and some of the most exciting performers around – and with lots more up our sleeves to be announced – we’re confident that the festival will become the leading family foodie music festival on the summer calendar!”
MUSIC
SATURDAY
Athlete
www.athlete.mu
• Stadium-filling, indie supremos Athlete will captivate the audience with their rousing, anthemic rock; lifting spirits with hugely popular tunes like Wires and You’ve Got the Style.
José González
www.jose-gonzalez.com
• Entering our collective consciousness with the achingly beautiful Heartbeats, José González has enjoyed a meteoric rise to international acclaim for his debut album Veneer.
Badly Drawn Boy
www.myspace.com/badlydrawnboy
• Mercury Prize-winning Badly Drawn Boy has released 4 brilliant albums since his spectacular debut The Hour of the Bewilderbeast and is now firmly in the pantheon of this country’s finest songwriters.
SUNDAY
KT Tunstall
www.kttunstall.com
• Making her debut festival appearance for 2009, the incredibly talented and multiple award-winning KT Tunstall is set to dazzle crowds with a special semi-acoustic performance. With sing-along classics like Black Horse and the Cherry Tree and Suddenly I See, as well as new songs from her forthcoming album, this will be a must-see festival moment.
Seth Lakeman
www.sethlakeman.co.uk
• Born and bred in the desolate beauty of Dartmoor, Lakeman’s rise has been nothing short of sensational since his shock Mercury Music Award nomination in 2005 for his debut album Kitty Jay.
FOOD
SATURDAY
James Wong
www.growyourowndrugs.com
• James is an ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies how people use plants. In his prime time show Grow Your Own Drugs he cooked up home made herbal remedies to offer an alternative to over the counter medicines and treatments.
Gennaro Contaldo
• Gennaro Contaldo is one of the most respected chefs in London as well as a renowned personality in his own right. He is widely known as the Italian legend who taught Jamie Oliver all he knows about Italian cooking.
Gino D’Acampo
www.ginodacampo.co.uk
• Ready Steady Cook and Saturday Kitchen favourite Gino D’acampo will be sharing the cooking secrets of his
authentically Italian upbringing, with a healthy dose of his inimitable cheeky charm.
Sunday
James Martin
www.jamesmartinchef.co.uk
• James Martin has made a great impact on British cooking since arriving on our screens in 1996. Passionate about British food, James uses the best ingredients to create simple and delicious recipes, accessible to all.
Anjum Anand
www.anjumanand.co.uk
• Anjum Anand is the new face of Indian cuisine. Her six-part prime-time BBC2 series Indian Food Made Easy aired in 2007 positioned Anand as an advocate for simple, healthy, colourful, low-fat Indian food.
EDITOR’S NOTES
Big Wheel
Big Wheel is a leading national music promotions company. Established 3 years ago, Big Wheel specialises in creating bespoke live experiences throughout the UK. With relationships with the UK’s most respected venues, Big Wheel is the sole music promoters for the world famous Open Air Theatre in Regents Park, curated the live music for The Innocent Village Fete and works very closely along side such prestigious venues as The Barbican, ICA and The Frieze Art show realising new, exciting & inspirational ways to develop the live experience.
Jimmy’s Farm
As seen on TV, Jimmy’s Farm is the home of the rare breed Essex Pig. A working farm, the gates are open for visitors 7 days a week to provide a great family day out. Alongside the animals, the farm includes a Nature Trail, Woodland Walk, Beautiful Garden’s, Farm Shop, Adventure Play Area and Field Kitchen. Visitors can buy home reared free range pig produce, beef and lamb in the Jimmy’s Farm butchers or from the online shop.
Jimmy Doherty
Rare Breeds Farmer and TV Presenter
Jimmy has always been passionate about nature and farming. By the time he was 16, he was the youngest ever assistant entomologist at the Mole Hall Wildlife Park in Walden. After gaining a degree in Zoology, Jimmy worked at the Entomology Department at London’s History Museum before moving on to Coventry University where he researched for a doctorate in Entomology, set up an insect laboratory and taught Animal Ecology and Animal Philosophy to undergraduate students. But by 2003, Jimmy decided it was time to make his dream of living the good life a reality. He left London and without any experience or knowledge of farming, took on a leasehold of a 100 acre farm near Ipswich in Suffolk. Jimmy’s roller coaster journey to change this derelict farm into a rare breed pig farm has been followed in a BBC Two series called Jimmy’s Farm. The third series was shown in Autumn 2007.
TICKETS
Address: Jimmy’s Farm, Pannington Hall Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP9 2AR
Nearest station: Ipswich Station
Opening Hours:
Saturday 12th September: 11am – 11pm
Sunday 13th September: 11am – 10.30pm
Tickets:
DAY: Adult – £25 / Youth – £15 / Child – FREE
WEEKEND: Adult – £45 / Youth – £27.50 / Child – FREE
Youth – 13 to 17 year olds; Child – Under 12s
Purchase via:
www.bigwheeltickets.com
020 7287 9482
www.seetickets.com
CONTACTS
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