June 2010

Festival Volunteer Sign Up Barbeque

The 2010 festival needs more volunteers than ever – stewards, child protection officers, first aiders, merchandise and ticket sellers, and more... if you want to work just 6 hours for a free ticket and get involved in this great community festival, then please come to one of our sign up barbeques:

Thursday 1st July @ 7:00 – 9:00pm Lamb Inn, Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire

Friday 2nd July @ 7:00 – 9:00pm Old School, Hermon, Pembrokeshire

Click Here for more information

Festival poster can also be downloaded here

May 2010

Celtic Blue Rock Festival brochure released

This year Celtic Blue Rock has released a brochure outlining the ideas behind the festival and the festival's future plans

Click Here to read and download the full brochure

Festival poster can also be downloaded here

February 2010

Celtic Blue Rock Festival in London Weekly Interview

Read the full interview with the London Weekly Magazine with Bill, Cris and Holly from the Celtic Blue Rock Festival committee.

This year's Celtic Blue Rock Festival will be hosting some top acts such as The Blockheads, The Beat, Goldie Lookin Chain, Nik Turner's Space Ritual (ex-Hawkwind) and Eddie & the Hotrods. More acts will be announced over the next month, so check the CBR website for regular updates.

Click Here to read the full interview with London Weekly's Angus Auden

July 2009

2009 Celtic Blue Rock Festival!

Look out for the Baby Blue Rock Area at this year's festival where participants can meet up and information and refreshments will be available. During the weekend there will be workshops running which you can join in. Please check the on-site timetable for details.

Also throughout the day in the DJ workshops we will be assessing the talent and the person with the best skills will get a chance to play at the Dance tent in front of a live audience.

We look forward to seeing you there and will be happy to answer any questions and offer advice.

Application forms for future workshops will also be available to fill in and hand in on site.

April 2009

New training courses announced

New FREE training courses announced for 12-19 year olds in West Wales. Courses will include:

• Sound workshops (aged 14-19)

• DJ workshops (aged 12-19)

• Event Décor workshops (aged 14-19)

• Guitar, Bass & Drumming workshops (ages 12-19) 

• Rock School (aged 12-19)

More courses may be added as they become available. Plans this year are for trainees to become involved in the Celtic Blue Rock festival 2009 helping set up and run the dance tent and participate in other aspects of putting on a festival of this size including helping with the other main stages during the festival weekend.

Baby Blue Rock will also have its own youth area onsite for participants to meet up. Information and refreshments will be available here and DJ workshops will be running on site during the weekend. There will also be a few allocated spaces on line up in the dance tent for a few lucky DJs who have been involved in the workshops.

If interested please fill out the On-line Application Form

July 2008

Looking forward for the Celtic Blue Rock Festival!

Trainees are looking forward to being involved with this years Celtic Blue Rock festival where they will be given the opportunity to work with the stage managers on the five stages over the weekend as well as working alongside the festival crew.

After completing the basic sound, lighting and stage management training courses, the trainees now have the opportunity to see what is involved in putting on a weekend music festival. Basic duties will be offered so trainees can gain further experience while offering the festival some much appreciated help with the huge task of putting on an event of this size.

The trainees will be treated the same as the rest of the festival crew which is made up of volunteers. Crew camping and hospitality will be available to all those participating. Above all this should be a great experience for all the trainees involved and we wish them all the best - and hopefully some sunshine too. 

Look out for our information stand at the festival and pop by to say hello!

June 2008

Trainees Play Away

Baby Blue Rock welcomed an invitation from Tidylike Records to support them with their gig at the Queens Hall, Narbeth on 14th June. Trainees Alan, Bethan, Cai, Donna, Ross and Rosie worked alongside the professional crew helping with set up and running of sound, lighting and stage management during the event

May 2008

New Funding

Baby Blue Rock has successfully secured further funding of £5000 which has been generously donated by the Russell Commission, a grant scheme which aims to prioritise opportunities for young people (aged 16-25).

February 2008

Bands Wanted

From time to time we will be programming events within a West Wales venue to give tourists and local people the opportunity to get a little taste of the type of live music experience seen at the main festival in August.

If you are in a band, solo artist/ musician and would be interested in playing at one of our Baby Blue Rock gigs then we would like to hear from you. Please email info@babybluerock.co.uk with your details.

January 2008

Launch Event Announced

On January 12, 7.30pm til midnight, at Clarbeston Road Community Hall Baby Blue Rock will be hosting its launch event for its youth training project and community events series.

Recruitment onto Baby Blue Rock (formerly Eventful Young Talent) is only open to persons living within Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.

Launching Baby Blue Rock with their unique Pembrokeshire style will be four bands, all performing an eclectic mix of pop, rock, metal and punk: - Boss Not Plastic, One Room Down, Volpus and Regime.

December 2007

Meet Baby Blue Rock

Following a competition earlier in 2007, 9-year-old Lowri Truslove was the winner and designer of the new logo, we are now able to introduce 'Baby Blue Rock'. Baby Blue Rock will be the logo, even mascot, of the youth training project.

November 2007

Trainers Announced

 24 Carrot Promotions have been appointed as the official trainers in the Sound, Lighting and Stage Management categories of the Baby Blue Rock project.

Baby Blue Rock is a Social Risk Funded initiative aimed at young people, living within the three West Wales counties, to learn different aspects of event management. With limited availability (36 spaces in total) Baby Blue Rock is looking to attract trainees and bands to participate in the project.

The first phase of this exciting training schedule will be to look at ‘Production Skills’, including sound, lighting and stage management.

All workshops will provide invaluable hands on training and written information, to ensure as much advice and guidance is provided. Each person attending the training day will learn the basics of staging a live gig within one of the project counties. The first live gig will be announced soon on the Celtic Blue Rock Community Festival website www.celticbluerock.org .

The main beneficiaries of the Baby Blue Rock project will be the annual Celtic Blue Rock Community Festival. With continued expert support, the trainees will work together to assist on the several stages during the annual festival.

October 2007

Funding Award

A big thank you to the Social Risk Fund for helping to kick start this project, it is with their generous award of nearly £10,000 that we have the money to begin the training.