Godiva Festival

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The Godiva Festival is a music festival held each year in Coventry, UK.

1 Visitors
2 Artists and Attractions
3 Line Up 2006
4 External links

[edit] Visitors

The Festival attracts more than 75,000 visitors each year to a 12 acre site in the city's War Memorial Park.

[edit] Artists and Attractions

The 3-day festival includes a dedicated 'electric' main stage which has played host to a wide array of mainstream and independent acts including Mercury Rev and Jane's Addiction. Separate Stages and 'nights' cover the spectrum of reggae, folk, hip hop and contemporary dance music genres. A comedy tent, kid's tent, main arena, fair, craft market and green space attracts families as well as the music goer. The Festival is widely marketed as the biggest free festival in the Midlands as well as the biggest free family festival in the UK. The festival is not-for-profit and organised by CV One, producers of the acclaimed Coventry Jazz Festival.

[edit] Line Up 2006

Last years festival took take place from Friday 14 July to Sunday 16 July.

[edit] Electric Tent

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Leo Sayer Kuki Susanna Benn	Mercury Rev The Cooper Temple Clause Nizlopi The Fratellis Blackbud This is Seb Clarke Milk Kan Decatone (G Factor Winner) Linear The Enemy	Spires Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus Spires Winds

[edit] Rhythm Tent

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Desmond Dekker Tribute The Pioneers Ambelique King Daniel Owen Uriah King Stanley & RNT Ziggy Natulus Kifaru Daddy Woody	Calusio Kron De Brazil Drumalicious-Global Beats Shri Live & DJ Badmarsh Siyaya-Out of Africa Brazilica	Swarb Lazarus The Oddsods Rob Halligan and Gareth Davies-Jones Joe O'Donnell's Shkayla The Coventry Mummers Eric Bogle Carter Chapman Dark Island Pete Willow

[edit] Spotlight Tent

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Decatone The Great Blind Degree Death by Miss Adventure Fiori Trailer hobo hotel exile 7th Wave What About Cube?	TY Paragon Big P Skeme Milliondan Beat Poets	Breaks Co-op Misty's Big Adventure Men Daimler Devon Sproule Vijay Kishore Don't Move! Tawt Sumladfromcov Cliff Hands Laura Bettison Lewis Garland Lee Glasson Wes Finch Suzy-Indygo