Shout About London

Black Deer is on a mission to bring the real Americana & Country music, and way of life, to the UK – expressed through a unique music festival. Founders, Gill Tee and Deborah Shilling, amalgamate their experience producing Capital Radio’s Party in the Park, and the Hop Farm Festival to create an incredible family festival with a fast-growing community of raving fans. We discuss the difficulties of launching a festival, how a business can become your identity, and some stand out acts of past and present. 01:00 Last week with Buses 4 Homeless 02:05 This week we speak to Black Deer Festival 02:38 Gill and Debs join us in the studio, and Gill discusses their back ground 06:40 Debs talks us through starting their first business 07:24 A major learning curve, running Hot Farm Festival 08:30 How Black Deer started through a change meeting at a party 11:28 “Creating Worlds” 12:43 Why Americana 15:05 Living Black Deer and building the community 17:30 Country Music 22:05 Family friendly festival 23:35 The big change