Headliners confirmed for Southern Fried Festival
The Southern Fried Festival 2014 will take place on Friday July 25 to Sunday 27 in Perth, Scotland with tickets on sale Friday April 18. The festival has now announced its country star headliners Buffy Sainte-Marie, Steve Earle, Rosanne Cash, John Fullbright, Marc Ford and Cedric Watson. Southern Fried Festival, Scotland’s biggest and best festival of American roots music returns to Perth for the seventh time featuring some of the biggest names in country. Covering all the American Roots music bases including blues, country, gospel, swing and soul, Southern Fried Festival is a little nugget of Americana in the rolling Scottish countryside with a rich vein of international stars and home grown talent just waiting to be prospected! Taking place in Perth Concert Hall and other venues within easy strolling distance, Southern Fried is a super-sized serving of the best in American Roots music topped with a warm slice of Scottish hospitality! Since the festival launched in 2008, artists have included The Mavericks, Lucinda Williams, Seasick Steve, Booker T, Lyle Lovett, Gretchen Peters, Blind Boys Of Alabama, Stax! featuring Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn and Eddie Floyd, Raul Malo, John Prine, Justin Townes Earle, Savoy Family Cajun Band, Hayseed Dixie, Allen Toussaint, Los Lobos, Nanci Griffith, Hot 8 Brass Band, Mary Gauthier, Eddi Reader, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Slaid Cleaves, Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Holmes Brothers, Elizabeth Cook, Rachel Harrington, Phantom Limb and many more.
