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NEWS 28 May 2014

Cottingham Springboard Festival heralds the beginning of the Festival Season

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On Bank Holiday Monday the Freedom Road Collective landed at The Hallgate Tavern in Cottingham to spend the afternoon performing their finely tuned sets as part of the unofficial Springboard Festival.

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Having witnessed their development during winter rehearsal sessions at The Warren and Kingston Youth Centre under the guidance of Alan, Iain, Jonny, Liam, Gary and Lisa, it was nice to see a new found confidence in the young people, not only vocally but in the way they now have the ability to pick up an instrument and perform covers and their own songs.

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The sets performed by our established artists Emily, Emmie, Olivia, Jess, Liv n Jess, Danielle n Shauna, Sammie and Imogen were outstanding and the challenge now is for them to maintain that level and go even further!

It was also great to see several new faces joining the ranks in Heather, Emily, Matthew, Nathan and Lucy who have all fitted in very well and who we hope will continue working with us.

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So with this hugely successful start to Festival Season it leaves us counting the weeks down to Humber Street Sesh on August 3rd

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It must also be documented that earlier this very busy week, Emmie and Jonny performed live on Viking FM's Sean Goldsmith show and Imogen made her debut on Alan Raw's BBC Introducing show. (I just hope they both remember that they signed a contract with us a few years ago and any future earnings will be shared with us all!!!)

We also welcomed several newcomers to the group