I Am Kloot to headline The Deer Shed Festival

Mercury Prize 2010 nominees I Am Kloot have been announced as headliners for North Yorkshire's Deer Shed Festival.

The family friendly Deer Shed Festival, debuted in July 2010, and takes place just a few miles from the A1(M) at Baldersby Park near Topcliffe, in North Yorkshire From Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th July 2011, the first weekend of the school summer holidays.

Having quickly sold out all 2000 tickets last year, the organisers have set the bar very high for 2011 including increasing the capacity to 5000 and developing their format of differently focussed days to include a Friday night programme.

The Deer Shed Festival gates will open on Friday with an evening of cabaret including circus and comedy performances in a big top tent. Saturday's programme includes music across three stages, culminating with I Am Kloot topping the Main Stage line-up, and this will be their only UK festival headlining appearance this summer. Sunday is the Deer Shed Festival 'long goodbye' - chilled music, coffee, newspapers, organised kids sports, nature trails and a Sunday morning market. A perfect end to a perfect weekend.

Run by organisers and husband-and-wife team Oliver and Kate Jones, the Deer Shed Festival was originally born out of the frustration that no good value-for-money family music festivals existed in the North of England with compelling line-ups.

Oliver explains, "The festival team are massive fans of contemporary music and arts in general and we all have kids. Over the years we've got increasingly fed up with paying a small fortune to get our families into various festivals only to be disappointed in the music or in the entertainment, facilities or vibe for the children. The Deer Shed Festival is our long considered response to this. It won't cost you an arm and a leg to come and kids are not second class citizens. Saying this, we will not compromise on what's on just because we are 'family-focussed'. If you don't have kids, you will still find a lovely chilled atmosphere in which to enjoy a weekend of high quality entertainment."

Tickets are available now priced as follows:

Adult (16+) weekend ticket (Fri-Sun) is priced at £59
Adult (16+) Saturday & Sunday only ticket is priced at £45
Child (aged 6 - 15 years) weekend ticket is priced at £15
Weekend campervan & caravan pass is priced at £15
All the kids activities and workshops free of charge and children under five go free but require a ticket. To buy tickets, click here .

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