An all-day festival of music will be topped off with a performance from the legendary Sir Tom Jones at Noble’s Park on Tuesday.
The impressive line-up includes top local acts Joe Crookall and Hamish Faragher, as well as UK acts Jodie Abacus, AJ Brown, Paradisia, Hayley McKay and Joe Treacy.
The long list of entertainment kicks off at 3pm with gates opening at 2pm.
Jones hit number one in 1965 with his debut single ‘It’s Not Unusual’ and a string of hits followed.
A career spanning over five decades has seen him release classics such as ‘What’s New Pussycat?’, Bond-theme ‘Thunderball’, ‘Green Green Grass of Home’, ‘Delilah’, ‘She’s a Lady’, ‘A Boy from Nowhere’, ‘Kiss’, ‘Burning down the House’, ‘Baby it’s Cold Outside’, ‘Stoned in Love’, ‘Mama Told Me Not to Come’, ‘Islands in the Stream’, and ‘Sex Bomb’.
He has had 36 top 40 hits in the UK and 19 in the USA.
In 1966 he won a ‘Grammy’ award for best new artist. In 1999 he received an OBE and in 2006 he was knighted for services to music.
From 2012 to 2015 he was one of four coaches on the BBC television talent show ‘The Voice UK’.
In November 2015 Jones appeared, alongside Rob Brydon in a special 90-minute show, from the SSE Arena, Wembley, for BBC’s Children in Need.
The singer appeared on BBC’s Jools’ Annual Hootenanny in 2015, broadcast on New Year’s Eve, on which he duetted with Paul Weller.
Local artist Joe Crookall recently supported Jones in Lichfield and also supported Cast at the Isle of Man TT. He will be supporting Martha and the Vandellas this summer as well as performing at several festivals this year with the likes of Tinie Tempah, Sigma, All Saints, Lightning Seeds and Travis.
Manx singer/songwriter Hamish Faragher has played guitar since the age of nine and cites his influences as Ed Sheehan and Jake Bugg.
He supported Davy Knowles for three shows on the island last year.
UK artist Jodie Abacus is now on Radio 2’s A-list playlist. His influences are listed as Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, A Tribe called Quest, Hall and Oates and Steely Dan. He will also be playing V Festival in Chelmsford in August.
All-girl trio Paradisia have also recently supported Sir Tom and have just played London’s Hyde Park where they supported Carole King.
Joe Treacy and Hayley McKay are both from the north-east and have already performed at festivals such as the Isle of Wight this summer.
The festival will take place in what is described as a ‘Grand Marquee’ and is brought to the island by the Villa Marina in association with concert and festival promoter tinyCOW, who also brought James and 10cc to the island.
TinyCOW promoter Lee O’Hanlon said: ‘People have said that our island shows with acts like 10cc and James are some of the best they have ever seen. We’ve already worked with Tom Jones this summer and I can assure people that they are going to witness the most incredible show.’
Tickets are still available from www.villagaiety.com or by calling 600555.