The Imagined Village Concert History

The Imagined Village is an English folk musical project founded by Simon Emmerson (of the Afro Celt Sound System) in 2004. It is intended to produce modern folk music that represents modern multiculturalism in the United Kingdom and as such, features musicians from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The name of the project comes from the 1993 book The Imagined Village by Georgina Boyes.

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The Imagined Village Tours & Concerts

Date Concert Venue Location
Dec 15, 2023
The Imagined Village / Afro Celt Sound System

A Celebration of Simon Emmerson

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Roundhouse London, England, United Kingdom
Aug 19, 2022 –
Aug 21, 2022
Beautiful Days Festival 2022 @ Escot Park
The Dandy Warhols / The Specials / Flogging Molly / Maxïmo Park / Billy Bragg / Beth Orton / Seasick Steve / The Magic Numbers / The Interrupters / Reverend and the Makers / Levellers / Hollie Cook / Anaïs Mitchell / Dreadzone / The Rumjacks / Bob Vylan / Ned's Atomic Dustbin / The Unthanks / Seth Lakeman / Snapped Ankles / Deadletter / Thea Gilmore / Cam Cole / Fisherman's Friends / Katy J Pearson / Eliza Shaddad / FEET / The Lovely Eggs / Eliza Carthy / Opus Kink / Blue Rose Code / The Imagined Village / The Trials of Cato / The Bar Stool Preachers / Jim Bob / Lars Frederiksen / Millie Manders and The Shutup / Craig Charles / Don Letts / Funke and the Two Tone Baby / Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club / Noble Jacks / Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican / The John Langan Band / The Celtic Social Club / Tony Wright / IDestroy / Alex Hart / Dat Brass / mr bruce / Harry Heart / The Sweetchunks band / Jack Rutter / The Barefoot Bandit UK / Hannah Moule / Tribe Steppaz / Eliza Carthy & The Restitution / Chris Tofu / Greg Dread / FMI Clatters Show all bands
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Escot Park Ottery St Mary, UK
Aug 24, 2012 –
Aug 27, 2012
Greenbelt Festival 2012 @ Cheltenham Racecourse
The Proclaimers / Nitin Sawhney / Luke Sital-Singh / Bruce Cockburn / The Leisure Society / Seth Lakeman / Rachel Sermanni / Bellowhead / Abigail Washburn / Speech Debelle / The Imagined Village / Megson / Franz Nicolay / Thomas Truax / RAMS' pocket radio / Luke Leighfield / Hunting Bears Show all bands
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Cheltenham Racecourse Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Jul 29, 2010 –
Aug 01, 2010
Cambridge Folk Festival
Adam Brown & Alan MacLeod / Belshazzar's Feast / Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra / Breabach / Brian McNeill / C.W. Stoneking / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Cocos Lovers / Dervish / Ezio / Fay Hield / Gretchen Peters / Harper Simon / Hekety / Jackie Oates / Joe Pug / Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit / Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell / Julie Fowlis / Kathy Mattea / Kris Kristofferson / Lissie / Lúnasa / Mama Rosin / Megson / Natalie Merchant / Pink Martini / Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends / Rokia Traoré / Salsa Celtica / Sam Carter / Sean Taylor / Seasick Steve / Seth Lakeman / Sharon Shannon & Imelda May / Show of Hands / Spiro / Stornoway / The Burns Unit / The Committee Band / The Holmes Brothers / The Imagined Village / The Jolly Boys / The Muckle Loons / The Quebe Sisters Band / The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain / The Unthanks / The Unusual Suspects / The Wonder Stuff / Tyde Show all bands
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Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Aug 22, 2009
Beautiful Days 2009 Saturday
The Pogues / The Imagined Village / The Sawdoctors / The Wonderstuff / Dub Pistols / Jeff Innocent / Nick Page / Liam Mullone / Keith Platt / Mitch Benn / Gary Delaney / Barry Castagnola / Hobo Jones / Will and the People
Escot Park Fairmile, Devon, UK
Aug 21, 2009 –
Aug 23, 2009
Beautiful Days Festival 2009
Frank Turner / The Pogues / Lamb / Imelda May / The Living End / Hawkwind / Levellers / Dreadzone / The Wonder Stuff / The King Blues / Dub Pistols / Subhumans / The Saw Doctors / Seth Lakeman / Gong / Will and the People / Cara Dillon / The Blockheads / John Smith / The Broken Family Band / Lau / Sonic Boom Six / Jay Jay Pistolet / Peatbog Faeries / Ruarri Joseph / The Imagined Village / Hatcham Social / Jim Moray / Chris T-T / The Martin Harley Band / Kris Drever, John Mccusker & Roddy Woomble / Pronghorn / Chris While & Julie Matthews / Edward II / Babar Luck / Ashley Hicklin / Kissmet / Mozzy Green / Dirty Scavenger / Greg Mcdonald / The Fabulous Good Time Party Boys / Swans in Flight / Melo Park Show all bands
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Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Jul 15, 2009 –
Jul 19, 2009
Larmer Tree Festival 2009
Imelda May / Richard Thompson / Dreadzone / Rokia Traoré / Ash Grunwald / Oi Va Voi / Transglobal Underground / Amy LaVere / Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra / 17 Hippies / The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain / The Travelling Band / Peatbog Faeries / Lazy Habits / Babel / The Congregation / Kanda Bongo Man / Hot Club Of Cowtown / The Imagined Village / Preston Reed / Jim Moray / Martin Stephenson / Jackie Oates / Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar / Baskery / Tinderbox / Destroyers / Megson / Babyhead / Scott Mckeon / Pama International / The Wilders / Jason Ringenberg / Part Time Heroes / The Shee / King Porter Stomp / London Bulgarian Choir / Urusen / Hats (US) / Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs / Milk Kan / Dodge Brothers / Paul Armfield / DJ Derek / Subgiant / Edward II / Mawkin Causley / Dennis Hopper Choppers / David Celia / Otis Lee Crenshaw / Andrei Nikolsky / The Velvet Hearts / David Goo Variety Band / Rsvp (US) / The Moon Music Orchestra / Wilson Dixon / Music From the Penguin Cafe / Belinda O'Hooley / Cut A Shine / Boy Le Monti / The Teak Project / Skavolution / The Zong Zing All Stars / Etran Finatwa / El Patio Primo / DJ Connie's Voodoo Kitchen Show all bands
Tollard Royal, UK
Aug 01, 2008 –
Aug 03, 2008
The Big Chill Festival 2008
Lykke Li / Angus & Julia Stone / Hot Chip / Little Dragon / Flying Lotus / Thievery Corporation / Tycho / Mr. Scruff / Leonard Cohen / Jon Hopkins / Fink / Buzzcocks / Frightened Rabbit / Trentemøller / Roots Manuva / Róisín Murphy / Beth Orton / múm / Johnny Flynn / The Orb / Martha Wainwright / Camille / Kraak & Smaak / Âme / Fujiya & Miyagi / Lee "Scratch" Perry / Benga / Nitin Sawhney / David Holmes / Daedelus / DJ Krush / DJ Vadim / Plaid / Alabama 3 / Cornelius / Hot 8 Brass Band / Federico Aubele / Bomb The Bass / Asian Dub Foundation / Orchestra Baobab / Ty. / Jeffrey Lewis / Luke Vibert / The Souljazz Orchestra / Natty / Portico / Caspa & Rusko / The Grid / Ursula 1000 / Jim White / Tom Middleton / Martina Topley Bird / BLK JKS / A.Skillz / Richard Walters / John Metcalfe / Ben Onono / Nina Nastasia / Us / Son of Dave / Jilted John / The Heritage Orchestra / The Mighty Boosh / Karima Francis / Horse Meat Disco / Greg Wilson / Adrian Sherwood / Ara Malikian / Ron Trent / Al-pha-X / Tape / Quiet Village / African Head Charge / Peatbog Faeries / The Irresistible Force / Derrick Carter / The Matthew Herbert Big Band / Bill Bailey / Christian Prommer / Leggo Beast / Vincent Vincent and the Villains / Spiro / Uk Apache / The Imagined Village / Benji B / Spokes / Alucidnation / Justin Robertson / Rachel Unthank & The Winterset / Evan Parker / Norman Jay MBE / Joe Claussell / Radioclit / Spring Heel Jack / Lol Hammond / Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir / John Shuttleworth / Pama International / The Blessing / Don Letts / Yam yam / Annie Nightingale / Mixmaster Morris / Shoreline / Richard Norris / Bays / IG Culture / Rafale / The Mules / Charlie Dark / Dusk & Blackdown / UnaBombers / Kid Acne / Federico Aubelle / Esau Mwamwaya / John Hegley / Andy Blake / Aronas / Gong Gong / Stuart Patterson / Ben Mynott / Dj Manga / Nigel Clark (Dodgy) / Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers / Wai Wan / Ben Goldacre / Mr. Tom / Pete Lawrence / Tom Ravenscroft / Lodekka / Daft Pink / Asia Dub Foundation / Random Dance / MEMORY 9 / Nick Luscombe / MC Kwasi / Elvis Mcgonagall / Drum Lesson / John Berkavitch / Spoono / Milky Disco / DJ Toy Selectah / The Irresistible Force Feat. Jonah Sharp / Coldcut Presents Coldcut Dj Set, Dj Food & Dk, Xrabit / The Light Surgeons / Lustfaust / DJ Russ Jones / Diskjokke & Vinny Villbass / Still Black, Still Proud / Heavenly Jukebox / Rap Saunders / The D'archetypes / Alterhit / exceeda / Si Armstrong Show all bands
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Eastnor, UK
Show Duplicate for Aug 01, 2008
Jul 31, 2008 –
Aug 03, 2008
Cambridge Folk Festival
3 Daft Monkeys / 6 Day Riot / Allen Toussaint / Altan / Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba / Bella Hardy / Beoga / Billy Bragg / Brian McNeill / The Chair / Cherryholmes / Chris Wood / Devon Sproule / Eliza Carthy / Elizabeth Cook / Eric Bibb / Findlay Napier & The Bar Room Mountaineers / Frank Turner / Grupo Fantasma / Heidi Talbot / Hot 8 Brass Band / The Imagined Village / Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller / Joan Armatrading / Richard Hawley / Judy Collins / k.d. lang / Karine Polwart / Kíla / Laura Marling / Levellers / Lisa Knapp / Martha Wainwright / Mauvais Sort / Mawkin:Causley / Megson / Michael McGoldrick Band / Noah & The Whale / Peatbog Faeries / Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson / Ruth Notman Trio / Seth Lakeman / The Shivers / Tim O'Brien / Tunng / The Waifs / Whapweasel / Wheeler Street Show all bands
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Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Jul 18, 2008 –
Jul 20, 2008
Camp Bestival 2008
Florence + the Machine / The Flaming Lips / Kate Nash / Suzanne Vega / Billy Bragg / Chuck Berry / Hercules & Love Affair / The Church / Black Kids / King Creosote / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / The Nextmen / Beardyman / DJ Yoda / The Wurzels / Andrew Weatherall / Ebony Bones! / Hat / The Imagined Village / Maurice Fulton / Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong / Imperial Leisure / Kevin Rowland / DJ Derek / John Kennedy / Queens Of Noize / Ross Allen / Bastille Show all bands
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Camp Bestival 2008 East Lulworth, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Jul 18, 2008
Jun 25, 2008 –
Jun 30, 2008
Glastonbury Festival 2008
The Verve / Panic! At the Disco / Hot Chip / Santigold / The Ting Tings / Crystal Castles / Mumford & Sons / Example / The Wombats / Pendulum / MGMT / My Morning Jacket / Duffy / The Raconteurs / The Fratellis / John Mayer / Editors / Cut Copy / Estelle / Caribou / Jay-Z / Yeasayer / Vampire Weekend / Metronomy / Goldfrapp / KT Tunstall / Biffy Clyro / Groove Armada / Elbow / The Script / Leonard Cohen / Noah & The Whale / St. Vincent / Dizzee Rascal / The Kills / Friendly Fires / Florence and the Machine / Gossip / Kate Nash / Lupe Fiasco / Neil Diamond / Ben Folds / Rusko / Stars / Laura Marling / Manu Chao / Band of Horses / Franz Ferdinand / Sinéad O'Connor / Crowded House / The National / Eliza Doolittle / Massive Attack / The Proclaimers / Sub Focus / Jamie T / James Blunt / Black Lips / Scouting for Girls / We Are Scientists / Frank Turner / Lykke Li / Simian Mobile Disco / Sam Sparro / CSS / Glasvegas / Mark Ronson / Unkle / Amy Macdonald / Foals / The Last Shadow Puppets / Jimmy Cliff / Ladyhawke / Battles / Fatboy Slim / Newton Faulkner / Black Kids / The Presets / The Freestylers / Ciara / The Cribs / Mystery Jets / The Subways / Buddy Guy / The Feeling / The Futureheads / Chris Rea / Magnetic Man / Los Campesinos! / Will Young / Spiritualized / Jamie Lidell / Róisín Murphy / Jack Peñate / The Zutons / The Hold Steady / The Soulsavers / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / Billy Bragg / Booka Shade / White Denim / Hercules & Love Affair / Teddy Thompson / The Hoosiers / N-Dubz / Operator Please / Patrick Watson / Hilltop Hoods / Alphabeat / Martina Topley Bird / The Black Ghosts / Eddy Grant / Joan Baez / Hayseed Dixie / The Brian Jonestown Massacre / The Courteeners / Fun Lovin' Criminals / The Slackers / The Enemy / Seasick Steve / British Sea Power / James Zabiela / Squarepusher / Blood Red Shoes / Vetiver / AutoKratz / The Automatic / Candi Staton / Portico / Kid Sister / Dirty Pretty Things / The Rocket Summer / Edwyn Collins / Caspa / Reverend and The Makers / Ozomatli / Erol Alkan / Infadels / Joan Armatrading / Audio Bullys / Count & Sinden / Black Mountain / Beardyman / Neon Neon / Martha Wainwright / DJ Format / Amy Winehouse / Stephen Fretwell / Midnight Juggernauts / Eric Bibb / The Bluetones / Utah Saints / Holy Fuck / Rascals / Natty / Shakin' Stevens / Kosheen / Peter Doherty / Kraak & Smaak / Tunng / 360 / One Night Only / Ron Sexsmith / Eugene McGuinness / Levellers / The Whip / PVT / Teenagers / X-press 2 / Balkan Beat Box / Seth Lakeman / The Duke Spirit / Way Out West / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / Magic Wands / The Handsome Family / Tift Merritt / Alabama 3 / Emmy the Great / Hazel O'Connor / Tom Baxter / Alex Metric / Banco de Gaia / Yoav / Rex the Dog / Golden Silvers / Dreadzone / Roni Size / The Black Dog / The King Blues / Cicada / Carl Barât / Lightspeed Champion / Gilbert O'Sullivan / Sky Larkin / A Guy Called Gerald / Mungos Hi Fi / The Holloways / Stanton Warriors / The Japanese Popstars / Young Knives / Nick Warren / Dengue Fever / The Pietasters / Sons and Daughters / Punks Jump Up / Toddla T / Vandaveer / Caspa & Rusko / Cerys Matthews / Deekline & Wizard / Swimming / Derrick May / Annie Mac / Lemon / Rodney P / Cadence Weapon / Horse Meat Disco / Lee Coombs / Babel / Royworld / These United States / Slyde / System 7 / Dub Colossus / Cagedbaby / Rachel Unthank & The Winterset / Ebony Bones! / The Imagined Village / Bison / Appleblim / Million Dan / Dj Dee Kline / The Wurzels / 2020 Soundsystem / Cap'tain / Phantom Limb / Diane Charlemagne / Atomic Hooligan / Shitmat / Cocknbullkid / MC Xander / The Paddingtons / Kathy Diamond / Dynamite MC / Be Your Own Pet / Dr Meaker / Bass Clef / The Urban Voodoo Machine / Blak Twang / Yes Sir Boss / Neil Cowley Trio / Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar / Solomon Burke / Jason Forrest / Magistrates / XX Teens / Team Waterpolo / Revere / Neville Staple / The Travelling Band / Ethiopiques / The Blessing / Dawn Kinnard / DJ Clipz / Attila the Stockbroker / Skream & Benga / Beggars / Amsterdam / 3 Daft Monkeys / The Undercover Hippy / Babyhead / Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong / John Tams / Zion Train / Rod Thomas / Samsara / Size 9 / The Blockheads / Make Model / Modern Skirts / Dr Rubberfunk / Stackridge / DJ Die / The Seal Cub Clubbing Club / The Men They Couldn't Hang / Black Cherry / Soul of Man / Orphan Boy / Kid Harpoon / The Car Is On Fire / Beat Torrent / Toby Tobias / Beber & Tamra / Dead Kids / Annie Nightingale / Crystal Distortion / Mirror System / Sicknote / Räfven / Sheelanagig / Simon Atkinson and the Ben Marcato Trio / Blazin' Fiddles / The Rusticles / Dogtanion / Sian Evans & Simon Kingman / Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers / The Unstoppable Team / Dubblehead / Juldeh Camara / Brothers Bab / Elle s'appelle / Sense of Sound Choir / Keth / Pete Gooding / The Sex Slaves From Hell / Officer Kicks / We Dont Play / Moody Boyz / Voodoo Trombone Quartet / Evi Vine / The Franks / The Mirettes / Kool Keith & Kutmasta Kurt / Eddy Temple Morris / Seize the Day / Los Albertos / Healer Selecta / Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs / Red Letter Day / Pronghorn / Davide Rossi / Grinny Grandad / The She Creatures / Smash 'n' Grab / Married to the Sea / Dynamo's Rhythm Ace's / Alex Paterson / The Carrivick Sisters / Robert Logan / Massukos / 12 Stone Toddler / The Soul Immigrants / Dan Donnelly / Luke Wright / MC Wrec / Dead Silence / Plaster of Paris / Katharine Blake / Dr. Alex Patterson / Digs... / 28 Costumes / Myth Of Unity / Almasäla / Port Erin / The Mentalists / Mankala / Queens Of Noize / Realistic Crew / The Lightyears / Bad Science / Whoosh / Siyaya / The Daisy Riots / Mama Shamone / Paprika Balkanicus / Nomad Jones / Mully / Trevor Fung / Alan Tyler And The Lost Sons Of Littlefield / Andrew Motion / Young Runaways / Audioporn / Wichita / The Black Bloc / Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra / The Don Bradmans / Holestar / Bone-box / The Krak / Demon Cabbage / Nicky Holloway / Russ Jones / Derek May / Red Route / Johnny Action Finger / Biggles Wartime Band / Digidub / Nuala And The Alchemy Quartet / Fos Brothers / i!AMYOU / The Glitzy Bag Hags / Melancholy Moose Society / East Of Ealing / Dub Pistols Soundsystem / ilya K / 4Fifteen / Hollis Greene / Hattie Hatstar / The Boat Band / DJ Ipek / Alec Townsend / Andy Hickie / Fundamental Skillz / DJ Tayo / Miss Behave / Sean Rowley / Roland the Bastard / nizlopi / Kings Of Leon / Six by Seven / The Pigeon Detectives Show all bands
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Worthy Farm Pilton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for Jun 25, 2008
May 30, 2008 –
Jun 01, 2008
Wychwood Music Festival 2008
Duffy / The Proclaimers / The Divine Comedy / Stornoway / Orchestra Baobab / Dreadzone / Dengue Fever / Kate Rusby / Robyn Hitchcock / Transglobal Underground / The Blockheads / Emma Pollock / The Imagined Village / Piney Gir / Palladium / School of Language / Rachel Unthank & The Winterset / The Epstein / Misty's Big Adventure / Mor Karbasi / Miles Hunt & Erica Nockalls / We See Lights / John Hegley / Air Cav / Kissmet / Jason Soudah / The Maladies Of Bellafontaine / Boden & Spiers Show all bands
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Cheltenham Racecourse Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Nov 27, 2007
The Imagined Village / Billy Bragg / Martin Carthy / Eliza Carthy / Norma Waterson Royal Festival Hall London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 21, 2007
The Imagined Village
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The Anvil Basingstoke Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
Nov 17, 2007
The Imagined Village / Billy Bragg / Sheila Chandra / Eliza Carthy / Martin Carthy / Chris Wood / Simon Emmerson Brighton Dome Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Nov 13, 2007
The Imagined Village / Billy Bragg / Chris Wood Bridgewater Hall Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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The Imagined Village on Nov 21, 2007 [461-small]

The Imagined Village
Nov 21, 2007
 Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
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Cambridge Folk Festival on Jul 29, 2010 [972-small]

Cambridge Folk Festival
Jul 29 - Aug 1, 2010
 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Cambridge Folk Festival on Jul 31, 2008 [970-small]

Cambridge Folk Festival
Jul 31 - Aug 3, 2008
 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Cambridge Folk Festival on Jul 29, 2010 [897-small]

Cambridge Folk Festival
Jul 29 - Aug 1, 2010
 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Folk
World
Fusion
British Folk
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2010 1 concert
2009 3 concerts
2008 5 concerts
2007 4 concerts

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