Rock Oyster Festival 2023
Rock Oyster Festival 2023
Rock Oyster Festival 2023
Rock Oyster festival 2023, the legendary Nile Rodgers & CHIC and kitchen-disco queen Sophie Ellis Bextor are this years headliners along with Groove Armada who have amassed 9 studio albums.
Located on the banks of the Camel Estuary on the stunning Cornish coast, Rock Oyster is a 4-day festival and camping holiday taking place from 27-30 July 2023. A voyage of culinary discovery, there’s mouth-watering food from Michelin-starred chefs to creative kitchen wizards, a musical line-up from internationally acclaimed artists, topped off with an adventure and wellbeing programme and plenty of family entertainment for everyone, all in the ultimate UK summer holiday location.
Rock Oyster welcomes Sophie Ellis Bextor who brings tracks from her Kitchen Disco to the Camel Estuary (after a covid cancellation in 2021). Sophie is a household name having sold more than 2 million copies of her debut album. Sophie has recently hosted the incredible Spinning Plates podcast where she speaks candidly with guests about topics as diverse as motherhood, men and kitchen disasters.
Mercury-prize nominated, London four piece The Big Moon who have just celebrated their third top ten album ‘Here Is Everything’ with a recent appearance on Later! With Jools Holland also appeared on the main stage with thier indie rock style sound.
Also on the main stage are film-maker, musician, documentarist and cultural historian Don Letts, Crazy P Soundsystem and the House Gospel Choir. Mercury prize nominated Gwenno also makes her festival debut playing songs from her recent Cornish language album,‘Tresor’.
A pearl in the food lovers’ calendar, Rock Oyster also announces a stellar chef line up. BAFTA winning, legendary broadcaster, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall will bring a little taste of River Cottage to the banks of the Camel Estuary. Alongside Hugh, Award winning TV Chef and Broadcaster and co-host of Great British Menu Andi Oliver dishes it up at Rock for the very first time. Andi rose to fame fronting the band ‘Rip Rig and Panic‘ with Neneh Cherry; she went on to host the BBC’s Glastonbury coverage, has hosted several cookery shows for the BBC, appeared in ‘The Number One Detective Agency’ and Caitlin Moran’s ‘How To Build A Girl’, continues to make regular appearances on Saturday Kitchen and launched her newest food project entitled Wadadli Kitchen which showcases Real Caribbean Home Cooking. They’re joined by British chef, restaurateur, cookery book author, television presenter, friend of the festival and Padstow hero, Rick Stein, founder of the Rick Stein Restaurant Group and presenter of the TV series Rick Stein’s Cornwall for BBC2.
