Pauline Black, and 3 Daft Monkeys for Cropredy

Pauline Black, 3 Daft Monkeys, and unsurprisingly Fairport Convention are amongst the latest acts to complete the line-up for this year's 30th anniversary at Fairport's Cropredy Convention.

2 Tone ska star Pauline Black of Selecter will join the previously reported headliners rockers Status Quo, folk orchestra Bellowhead, keyboard maestro Rick Wakeman and Jazz guitar maestro Martin Taylor, and American country rock legends Little Feat.

3 Daft Monkeys return to the festival by popular demand. Flossie Malavialle,and Keith Donnelly are also added to the bill, fresh from their winter tour supporting Sunday headliners and hosts Fairport Convention who will close the festival with a three-hour joined by a galaxy of musical guests. As is also customary Richard Digance is confirmed to open the festival on the Saturday.

They join the previously confirmed acts of Mabon, The Dixie Bee-Liners, Thea Gilmore, Martyn Joseph, The Martin Taylor Quartet, Breabach, James Findlay, Little Johnny England, Leatherat, and The Tindalls.

To see the full line-up and day splits for this year's 30th anniversary of the festival which will take place from Thursday 12th to Saturday 14th August 2010 please click here.

Simon Nicol, Fairport's lead singer and festival co-organiser said of this year's line-up, "It's a real coup to get the mighty Status Quo at last. Lots of our festival-goers have asked for the band down the years. We're equally delighted with the rest of the line-up: it's one of our most eclectic mixes ever and has really broad appeal across genres and generations. We've pulled out all the stops for Cropredy's thirtieth year and we've got a strong international flavour with something for every musical taste. When tickets go on sale at the beginning of March, we expect demand to be heavy so we advise people to get their orders in quickly."

Tickets are not yet on sale. Ticket prices have been announced and early bird tickets will be available until 1st June, priced as follows:
An adult weekend ticket £85 (full price £95)
A weekend camping ticket £30
Adult Friday, and Saturday ticket £75 (full price £85)
Adult Friday/Saturday camping ticket (for 13th & 14th August only) £25
Saturday only day ticket £55 (full price £65)
Tickets for children under 12 years of age, are free. Children must be accompanied by an adult purchasing a ticket.

Tickets will go on sale on Monday 1st March 2010. It's a very friendly festival with great ales, no sell-out out to rampant commercialism, and no huge ticket prices.

The festival will be held at its usual site in countryside north of Banbury, Oxfordshire, three miles from Junction 11 of the M40 motorway.

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