Rugby’s Hamplified Music & Rugby 7’s festival takes place on Saturday 13thJuly at Rugby St Andrews RFC Hillmorton Grounds in Ashlawn Road at 1pm until 11pm.
The event takes place to raise funds and awareness for The Matt Hampson Foundation who support young people seriously injured through sport.
Founders of Hamplified and Cemex Logistics Planners, Mark Brightwell and Rob Low, said: “Our inspiration came 13 years ago when our friend and co-founder, Andy Smith, injured himself seriously playing rugby. Andy found inspiration to fully recover after reading the book ‘Engage’, written by Matt Hampson after a similar horrific career-ending and life-changing injury while playing for Leicester Tigers.”
The festival features a fantastic men’s and ladies Rugby 7’s tournament with top local teams Rugby St Andrews RFC, Rugby Lions, Old Laurentrians and Newbold RFC battling it out for the Hamplified trophy.
Hamplified has always relied on 100% of its acts and organisers to offer their time and talent free of charge in order to raise as much as possible through donations, collections, raffles, auctions and pitch fees etc on the day.
Rob continues: “We have also been very grateful to get support from Cemex this year as one of our sponsors. We cannot thank them enough for their partnership for this fantastic local community event. This event has always been well supported by our Cemex colleagues, their families and friends and we welcome them all again for a great day and night of live music and rugby.”
To date, they have raised more than £30,000 since the launch in 2011.
Music starts at 1pm with 11 great local bands including: Ego, The Upsiders, The Shady, Trust Club, Monday Nights, The Passengers, LL Cool Hill, The Great Central, The Soul Revival, Big Family and The Record Covers.
Rob Lowe commented: “I am certain no other festival gets absolutely to the heart of the community of Rugby taking the people, bands, business, Cemex employees/ families and music supporters with us at every stage which helps our little idea make a big difference.”
For additional information visit the website www.hamplified.com or email [email protected] for more details.
You can find a poster with more details on the UK News website: here