Global DJ star Sasha is the next big name to be added to the line up of House of Barefoot which will be making its debut in Northumberland this summer, inviting fans to get up and close and personal with the music and offering, it says, "a full festival experience on an intimate scale".
The Grammy Award-nominee, who first burst onto the acid house scene in the early 1990s, will take to the stage with fellow dance music legend John Digweed on June 2, which kicks off the four-day Bank Holiday for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The three-day House of Barefoot, which is described as the first boutique dance music festival in the North East and will play out on a site at Reed Farm in Stamfordham, already has big names such as James Zabiela and Hernan Cattaneo on the line-up and the newly-announced additions are an extra boost for what organisers are aiming to be a world-class event with an intimate feel.
Sasha, who is credited with bringing DJing into the digital age - moving it on from the traditional turntable and mixer to live audio engineering equipment - has won awards for his pioneering DJ sets and remixes. He and John Digweed first joined forces in 1993, when acid house was at the height of its popularity, and they have since toured globally; getting together again in 2016 after a six-year hiatus.
