Galahad and Abel Ganz announced for Prog For Peart 2023

By Natasha Scharf
( Prog )
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Prog For Peart festival returns to Abingdon for two days in July 2023 – Zio and Doris Brendel Band also confirmed to play

black and white contrast photo of prog band Galahad
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Galahad and Abel Ganz have been announced for 2023's Prog For Peart in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The charity event will take place on July 7 and 8 at The Northcourt and will raise money to help combat Glioblastoma Multiforme, the rare form of brain cancer that Rush drummer Neil Peart died from.

A total of 16 bands will perform across the two days with Zio (featuring Hayley Griffiths), The Doris Brendel Band, Yuval Ron Group and Band Of Rain also confirmed. More acts are due to be announced soon. 

Entry is £100 for the full weekend with admittance from Thursday at 3pm – weekend camping tickets are also available for an additional £15. Day tickets for Friday or Saturday are £65. 

Tickets are on sale from October 24 via the venue website as well as SeeTickets, WeGotTickets, Skiddle and Ents24. Bands will play from midday until midnight on both days with bars open from 11am until 2am.

All profits from the festival will go to the UK-based Headcase Cancer Trust.

Natasha Scharf
Natasha Scharf
Deputy Editor, Prog

Contributing to Prog since the very first issue, writer and broadcaster Natasha Scharf was the magazine’s News Editor before she took up her current role of Deputy Editor, and has interviewed some of the best-known acts in the progressive music world from ELP, Yes and Marillion to Nightwish, Dream Theater and TesseracT. Starting young, she set up her first music fanzine in the late 80s and became a regular contributor to local newspapers and magazines over the next decade. The 00s would see her running the dark music magazine, Meltdown, as well as contributing to Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Terrorizer and Artrocker. Author of music subculture books The Art Of Gothic and Worldwide Gothic, she’s since written album sleeve notes for Cherry Red, and also co-wrote Tarja Turunen’s memoirs, Singing In My Blood. Beyond the written word, Natasha has spent several decades as a club DJ, spinning tunes at aftershow parties for Metallica, Motörhead and Nine Inch Nails. She’s currently the only member of the Prog team to have appeared on the magazine’s cover.