We’ve just added more artists to our line up section. On Friday 3rd August we’ll be welcoming Show of Hands and The Emily Askew Band. The ever-popular Show of Hands performed last year when they treated us to a slowed down version of the Don Henley classic “The Boys of Summer”.
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As planned we’ve updated all our line up pages before Xmas to show the current list of artists appearing at Wickham Festival 2018. We’ve many more to come including our Thursday and Friday headliners. Our Saturday headliner will be The Ivor Novello Award winning Squeeze…
Folk legend Richard Thompson has been announced as the first headline act for the 2018 Wickham Festival.
Continue reading “Richard Thompson to Close Wickham Festival 2018”
In the past couple of weeks we’ve announced a couple more names via our social channels. We’ll be welcoming The East Pointers from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Here they are at Shrewsbury Folk Festival earlier this year.
Continue reading “The East Pointers & Hattie Hatstar Join the Line Up”
Next August may seem a long way off but it’s been a busy time at Wickham HQ. We’ve just published our first batch of artists for 2018 on our home page. We normally wait until December but couldn’t wait to share the exciting news via our social channels.
Continue reading “The preparations begin, first artists announced for 2018”
Fans who attended this year’s festival have been given an extra week to claim a £60 saving for next year’s event. Continue reading “Renewal deadline extended for those who attended Wickham Festival”
This year’s Wickham Festival has been declared the biggest and best yet after breaking box office records. Continue reading “Wickham 2017 is “best yet””
Oysterband frontman John Jones believes the Wickham Festival is one of the best in the country. Continue reading “Oysterband praise for Wickham Festival”
A superb second day has vindicated the decision not to call off the Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Remarkable recovery for festival site”
Wickham Festival organiser Peter Chegwyn has paid a heartfelt tribute to the staff and the fans after somehow ensuring the show went ahead. Continue reading “The show must go on…”
The rain finally relented at around 3am and the forecast for today and the rest of the weekend is much improved. We should hit a dizzying height of 20°C. Today will be windy but we’re hoping that will help dry out the ground. The tented campsites are in good condition. We’re planning to open the mixed camping field at 10am which is also in good condition. The entrance for mixed camping is located at the Junction of Blind Lane, Frith Lane and Pricketts Hill.
Continue reading “The day the music starts – for those travelling in today…”
In exactly 7 days we’ll be looking forward to a full day of entertainment to bring Wickam Festival 2017 to a close. And what a line up! Festival favourites Winters Hill will be opening The All Time Grates Stage at midday whilst Ray Cooper will be opening The Hapi Festival Stage.
Continue reading “This time next week – Sunday 6th August 2017”
It’s incredible to think that this time next week we’ll be in full flow meeting familiar faces and spending time with like-minded folk. We also know this year there are many new visitors to Wickham. We’ve sold tickets in America, Argentina, Australia, Scandinavia and of course all corners of Britain. Wickham is a quaint English village set in the Hampshire’s Meon valley full of history, providing the perfect setting for a break to soak up some culture.
Continue reading “This time next week – Saturday 5th August 2017”
Next Friday Wickham Festival 2017 will be well underway with the first full day line up of music. As I write this post at 9.30pm, in precisely 7 days we would have just enjoyed Seth Lakeman. To celebrate our 10th festival at Wickham we wanted to return to our roots with a very strong folk line up, which had to include Seth…
Continue reading “This time next week – Friday 4th August 2017”
This time next week we would have just watched KT Tunstall take to the stage at 8pm. With five studio albums released internationally there is a lot to look forward to including tracks from her top 10 album released in 2016, KIN…
Continue reading “This time next week – Thursday 3rd August 2017”
2021 Wickham t-shirts! We'd had many people asking for one of our limited edition 2021 Festival t-shirts. If we order some more and sell them for £20 inc. p&p, would you buy one?
Would love to buy but in conscience would normally only do if I came to the gig otherwise it feels a bit fake.... looks like a great line up and hope you guys do get to host it this year 👍
Cassie Estell
🤞🏻 I hope it goes ahead this year. Only missed it once before last year. Couldn’t do 2 years in a row. Looking forward to Wickham fun time shenanigans again. And buying the T-shirt
Yay!!! The Dhol Foundation are on the t-shirt! Yes, I will buy one x
Yes. I am also really hoping to come!
Hopefully they’re not Chinese cotton T-shirts?
Yes please
Yes I’d buy one 😃
You should do a pre-order campaign so you dont end up with sitting stock
Yes xx
Definitely NO
Definitely
Yes. One each for us.
Yes!
I would if my name was on it. Just saying...
Yes, I Would love one 😀
Yes
Would love one ...!
Any chance of ordering some women’s fit ones?
Yes
Yes
Absolutely. :)
Yes 👍🏻
Yes, definitely.🎼🎻🎺🎸🎷🪘🥁
Katie Rachel Sawdon
Presenting... On Sunday 31 Jan. 'Our Passage to India', a stunning new film & concert production feat. Show of Hands + our Wickham Festival Patron Johnny Kalsi of The Dhol Foundation & Afro Celt Sound System. Tickets from showofhands.co.uk/shop
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Tickets from showofhands.co.uk/shopTo be screened on Sun 31st Jan 7.30pm available until Weds 3rd Feb.In 1997 ‘Show of Hands’ toured India for six w...2 from Burnham on sea booked feeling VERY positive with the Wickam feelgood factor
Tickets booked 🙂
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Richard Hall Sue Hall
Please watch the promo video for full info. Just click on the pic. 😊
Sad but inevitable that Glastonbury would cancel. It takes them 4 months to build their site. We build Wickham in just 1 week. With the vaccine rollout going well we're confident Wickham will be able to go-ahead this year. www.wickhamfestival.co.uk
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The OFFICIAL website for WICKHAM FESTIVAL containing line up details, news, festival information, galleries and advice on how to purchase tickets.If we have rolled-over tickets for 2020 will these be valid for 2022? Even if it goes ahead this year many people will not feel safe attending a large event and it's not clear yet whether everyone will have been able to have been vaccinated by then.
I live in Spain - have been reading about Primavera Sound holding a test event to see how possible it is...went very well apparently so you may well be right...hope so...would love to come back... if they ever open the airports again!!
We shall be hoping that this does happen - crossing all things that can be crossed
Blimey, what a load of negativity to a positive and optimistic post! Thank you for giving us hope and fingers crossed it is possible to go ahead.
Was a great weekend with my kids a few years ago when the Stranglers were playing. Was well worth the trip from the Black Country. Well organised and brilliant for little uns .
Great news Peter - so many doom and gloom mongers around who are fed a daily diet of misery and who obviously find it hard to be optimistic and positive. If it's on we'll be there as always!
Really keeping fingers crossed 🤞 that wickham will go ahead.. 🥳🤞🥳
I think using the word ‘confident’ is a little premature if not arrogant sounding. Hopeful or optimistic maybe. I hope so too but I wouldn’t count on it.
Brilliant news, the best news I've had for weeks, nice to have this to look forward to
I certainly hope so. Missing live music soooooo much.
It'll be jam packed then!
The issue at Glastonbury was apparently refusal of insurers to cover the enormous cancellation costs. Are you saying you have no cancellation costs right up until 1 week before the event? Or is it that your cancellation costs are so much less insurance is more easily available? (I’m genuinely interested to know as a regular at Glastonbury and Wickham). Fingers crossed.
We have tickets held over and so really hope this can go ahead but in all reality can’t see thousands of people together in small spaces for a good while yet unfortunately 😕 The vaccine will mean those with it won’t get so sick around 80% ish still leaves 20% ish who will still get quite ill and everyone vaccinated or not can pass Covid on. So with our younger music lovers who won’t get vaccines til perhaps summer/autumn too many are still vulnerable to this nasty virus 🦠- If we aim for 2022 that might be when we are out of the woods.
My hubby and I were discussing last night..we are huge festival fans.. i volunteer and steward on loads. I genuinely do not think festivals of this size will come back until covid is gone. Think about it...even with vaccine we still all have to show a negative test to go to a large gathering..for example ..on a cruise or to enter a country.. as the vaccine doesn't stop the spread as yet. So how can we allow..THOUSANDS to get together and mix over a weekend? The toilets...the food vans...the bins...the closeness... and thats without taking into account the staff to steward and the insurance to hold an event? I think small SD concerts may go ahead in the foreseeable future but all MASS gatgerings won't happen again for maybe two years..maybe more.. I have tickets held over for over 6 festivals and concerts plus booked to volunteer for another 5! So it hurts...
Looking forward to live music at festivals again this year, hope Wickham can go ahead, and are not pressured to cancel!
Hopefully the team and I will be there too!
Fingers crossed for a proper summer! xx
Fantastic news. Everyone needs something to look forward to right now. 😍
And a better ticket price as well 😊😊
what's it got to do with a vaccine?
You do know the vaccine only stops you getting serious complications allegedly. It doesn't stop people passing it on or catching it!!!
Small festivals Rock ! We’re hoping Between The Trees Festival makes an appearance this year too.
Oh Peter, I really hope you're right and we all have something fabulous to look forward to. I'm happy to ignore all the negative responses...I'm excited at a possibility...nuff said xxx
I hope you are able to go ahead this year, it is much needed 👍🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🥰
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Free Prize Draw! Last Chance to Win! Everyone who buys a 2021 day or weekend ticket by midnight tonight (Sunday) is entered in our free Prize Draw with 30 great prizes: 10 x 2021 Wickham Festival t-shirts; 10 x 2021 Wickham Festival calendars; 10 x copies of our compere Ali Russell's new book 'Can't Do This On My Own - A life in minority music and other stories'. Ticket details here: www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
P.S. All who've already bought tickets or rolled-over 2020 tickets to 2021 will also be included in the Draw. It's our way of thanking you for your continued support.
Looking forward to the festival so much.
I received my t shirt which is stunning! Are you selling any yet?
Can't wait for this year's festival. 😊😊
Brilliant lockdown version of an Xmas classic from Nick Parker & friends in aid of the Trussell Trust. Nick will be at Wickham this summer. See how many singers & musicians you recognise on the video. www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0KAYdl4Y5gHZA67L6Dgt8aohD_cYxYyjDCvt9FM5Ay9pIflf008DF3z_0&v=lKl5...
Fairytale of New York - Nick Parker and Friends
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Back in the slightly clunky summer of 2020 I decided to work on a lockdown version of a Christmas classic. After a discussion with studio guru Dave Draper we...
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