Chatsworth House (local attraction)

About

The Bakewell Acoustic Music Festival has been founded by two like minded friends that have both been in the music industry throughout there lives. With a passion for all that is good from all forms of live music they have endeavoured to stage an event that will cross all genres and be a festival that will be embraced by all music lovers young and old.
The local community is in their forefront and to promote this they will be greatly discounting tickets to patrons with the local postcode.  

Stuart Carter-Smith

Stuart is a full time musician/guitarist in a band called Gypsy Fire. He has toured across the globe for 15 years with various projects but is now fully committed to his latest and most exciting project Gypsy Fire. Gypsy Fire has secured a much coveted recording/publishing deal set to be released early 2010 and has a 6 month release tour to follow.  He has also founded music festivals including “ The International Gypsy Guitar Festival, The Shakedown Rock n Roll festival, Coaley Music Festival” (to name a few ) over the last 10 years. Stuarts passion for acoustic music has led him to play with and meet some of the greatest musicians of our time and he is looking forward to (along with Jonathan) scheduling a truly world class line-up to descend on the village of Bakewell.  

Jonathan Rowlands

Having dedicated 40 years of his life to the music industry Jonathan's most notable achievements came from his time served in Artist Management –his first artist Jeff Beck, 2nd Rod Stewart ( 9 years ) then PR for Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Nancy Wilson, Nina Simone to name a few. He also had success with Record production, Song writing and the Producers’s workshop Studio followed. These projects included Artists like Tim Rose ( ‘Hey Joe’ ( yes Hendrix heard his version ) –‘Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew’ and music publishing around the world then Jeremy Lloyd (writer of ‘Allo! Allo!’and ‘Are You Being Served’) moved into view and along with Jonathan they produced and published ‘Captain Beaky and His Band’ – not forgetting 'Hissing Sid'! and these are still selling on the internet to today www.captainbeaky.com . Dickensworld (an Entertainment complex in Rochester) and Red Redemption (a learning games company with there blockbusting game "fate of the world" www.red-redemption.com (with his son Gobion)) and the Acoustic Festival all fulfill his "actively retired" time.