stone music festival
Stone Music Festival Voluntary Group

Meet the team

Steve Brookes (Chairman)
As chairman, Steve’s key role has been the overall coordination of the Voluntary Group and taking a lead role in fundraising.
Steve is a former Town Councillor and a former senior police officer and is now a Senior Fellow at Manchester University (Manchester Business School) where he lectures and researches public policy and management.
He does not have a background in music but "knows what he likes" and is a fan of 60s/70s music and classical.
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Kate Moss (Overall Event Co-ordinator)
Kate’s role has been to co-ordinate the events and programme during the 2008 Festival. Kate is a former Town Councillor and in her professional life, Kate is a Reader in Law at Wolverhampton University having previously been a criminologist and lecturer in law respectively at Loughborough and Staffordshire Universities.
Music has been a key part of Kate’s life having studied music before entering law and she was a member of the Staffordshire Youth Orchestra as a flautist.
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David Peel (Media coordinator)
David is a former BBC Journalist and takes a lead for the Music Festival in all matters relating to the media and marketing.
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Paul Walker (Artist Coordinator)
Paul is a professional musician is known locally as Mr Music. Paul took a key role in coordinating artists and acted as stage manager during the 2008 Festival. He can be found every Monday evening at Granvilles where he hosts an open mic evening.
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Phil Barber (Treasurer and logistics)
Phil is the owner of the well known Barber Lutherie Musical Instruments shop in the town (and, as this picture shows, the very proud owner of his very first reflective jacket!) and has been a strong supporter of the music festival from its inception. In addition to providing his expertise in relation to music, and donning the odd spanner he was also very active throughout with his camera and it is with thanks to Phil that we have so many photographs of our festival!
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Carol Bailey (Webmonkey)
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Collin Taylor (Compere)
Collin joined the group having been asked to compere the finale on the Sunday. In his professional life Collin is a seasoned civil servant undertaking a very taxing role but perhaps he has miissed his real calling in life. Those who were there will know what an excellent job Collin did - and he enjoyed it so much that he agreed to join the group to support us in preparing for 2009.
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Sharon Douce (Voluntary Member)
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