A little bit more about BlokeFest...
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SINGING.
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How do you explain an event like 'BlokeFest'?
With difficulty!
With difficulty!
BlokeFest is a festival by Blokes for Blokes who like singing or think they might.
It’s about having a great time, and getting away from the cares of the normal day to day existence and singing songs together in ways that have been lost in this modern world, er, apart from us.
There's so much to it... ... you can form your own impression from watching some of the stuff that happens at BlokeFest in this video of what goes on.
It’s about having a great time, and getting away from the cares of the normal day to day existence and singing songs together in ways that have been lost in this modern world, er, apart from us.
There's so much to it... ... you can form your own impression from watching some of the stuff that happens at BlokeFest in this video of what goes on.
Our beautiful festival has been described by one of our many, many satisfied participants as
"The best all blokes singing weekend you could imagine"
BlokeFest MAN-ual and Playlist
So, to help with this process we put together the BlokeFest MAN-ual, a Song Book to help blokes remember the songs and the words on the weekend and hopefully inspire them to sing with other blokes on their return from the event.
And now we even have a Playlist on that very most modern of devices, t'interweb.
And now we even have a Playlist on that very most modern of devices, t'interweb.
Click here to download The BlokeFest 2025 MAN-ual
It is best re-saved as PDF then printed from the PDF as a booklet, provided you can read the font, in the dark of a pub!
Are there any missing you would like to contribute? If so, send the Title, the composer(s) and the lyrics to [email protected] and we'll see what we can do before the deadline.
It is best re-saved as PDF then printed from the PDF as a booklet, provided you can read the font, in the dark of a pub!
Are there any missing you would like to contribute? If so, send the Title, the composer(s) and the lyrics to [email protected] and we'll see what we can do before the deadline.
Watch & listen to the BlokeFest Playlist.
See many of the songs that are in the BlokeFest MAN-ual performed by an array of blokey talent all captured on video for your delight and education on our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxGIYohb2d1YaWukimEfQ821OcVQ5YkTf.
See many of the songs that are in the BlokeFest MAN-ual performed by an array of blokey talent all captured on video for your delight and education on our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxGIYohb2d1YaWukimEfQ821OcVQ5YkTf.
Listen to the Singing in the BlokeFest Shed.
And thanks to our long time attendee, founding father of what we like to consider as a close cousin event, the very wonderful "Singing in the Shed", and alround top Bloke, Mr Dave Mountain, you can also enjoy four and a half hours of many of the songs that are in the BlokeFest MAN-ual, or have been sung at BlokeFest or "Singing in the Shed" at one point in time on the Spotify platform.
And thanks to our long time attendee, founding father of what we like to consider as a close cousin event, the very wonderful "Singing in the Shed", and alround top Bloke, Mr Dave Mountain, you can also enjoy four and a half hours of many of the songs that are in the BlokeFest MAN-ual, or have been sung at BlokeFest or "Singing in the Shed" at one point in time on the Spotify platform.
The Story behind "BlokeFest"
Our story begins in late 2011 when someone misheard a good idea and it turned into an even better one . . .
The motley crew that are The Magnificent AKs had just finished their very first Yuletide "Beer and Carols" evening in their home of Ashton Keynes and were mulling over organizing a genteel little A Capella festival in the village the following year.
Somehow, in the the heady excitement of the afterglow of the performance and amidst the haze of beer and mince pies, this idea morphed into being a festival for just blokes and the whole thing snowballed beyond mere pubtalk, survived the holiday period and gathered pace in the New Year.
A team, known as The BlokeFest Inner Circle, was formed and managed to draw upon a surprisingly wide range of talent who were pressed into action to research who could run Singing Workshops and to organize other manly activities, such as Axe throwing.
Unfortunately Axe throwing didn't make it past the "keep it simple" sanity check that happened a few weeks later, but sure enough, the schedule started to crystalize and eventually chrysalis-like a thing of beauty emerged from it's unpromising beginnings that was BlokeFest 2012.
We are now in our 15th year.
The motley crew that are The Magnificent AKs had just finished their very first Yuletide "Beer and Carols" evening in their home of Ashton Keynes and were mulling over organizing a genteel little A Capella festival in the village the following year.
Somehow, in the the heady excitement of the afterglow of the performance and amidst the haze of beer and mince pies, this idea morphed into being a festival for just blokes and the whole thing snowballed beyond mere pubtalk, survived the holiday period and gathered pace in the New Year.
A team, known as The BlokeFest Inner Circle, was formed and managed to draw upon a surprisingly wide range of talent who were pressed into action to research who could run Singing Workshops and to organize other manly activities, such as Axe throwing.
Unfortunately Axe throwing didn't make it past the "keep it simple" sanity check that happened a few weeks later, but sure enough, the schedule started to crystalize and eventually chrysalis-like a thing of beauty emerged from it's unpromising beginnings that was BlokeFest 2012.
We are now in our 15th year.
Comments from Attendees
We did a little follow up survey after the event and these were some of the nicest comments we received (there weren't any nasty ones! So we must have got most things right).
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"Hugely enjoyable and looking forward to next year".
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"Genuinely memorable, lots of good singers and convivial atmosphere."
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"More fun than this gloomy old geezer had expected."
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"I thought it was utterly brilliant and a total triumph. I'm really looking forward to another chance to do this".
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"Can't wait to do again".
"It really did surpass all my expectations". |
