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”.
Continue reading “Last chance to save £40 on Earlybird tickets!”
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”
Newly confirmed. The Trouble Notes will be at Wickham on Sunday 7th Aug. 2022 (They were due to be with us in 2021 but Covid prevented international travel). Great band!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz32pCBgIuI
Excellent news!!!
More than a hint of Black Violin about them
Pleased to confirm FitUp will be back at Wickham in August with their outdoor circus & cabaret shows plus hugely popular circus skills workshops
Day & Weekend Tickets available and selling fast. You can still save £50 on 4-day adult weekend season tickets if you book now via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
Can you get the 3 Daft Monkeys too??
When I went, the music was sooo excellent!!! However, there should deffo be less people sat on their arse in chairs🙄😑
Think it would be great if the solar cinema came back or something similar it was great for a bit of chill time with the children
Are the Sniffer Dogs coming?
Any chance big country?
Joanna Dovey x
Would love to see Bleeding Hearts here!
A great video from Fit Up circus skills performers. See if you can spot the segments from Wickham last summer (A clue - watch out for the mud!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2loB4pyJ10
We were pitched next to these guys - brilliant entertainment & so much fun
We love fit up ☺️
We're very sorry to hear that Koady Chaisson of award-winning Prince Edward Island band The East Pointers has died aged just 37. Our thoughts are with his family & friends at this sad time. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-koady-chaisson-obituary-1.6307210?fbclid=IwAR0TnE...
Koady Chaisson of award-winning P.E.I. band The East Pointers dead at 37 | CBC News
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P.E.I. musician Koady Chaisson, part of the Juno-winning three-man band the East Pointers, has died at the age of 37.Such a fine band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQ0Q3mpr6o
How sad 😥 They were excellent when we saw them a couple of years back. Rest in peace
Saw them twice at Canadian festivals. A quite phenomenal band, fluent, clever, so many hills they could still have climbed…/ I x
So sad hope the rest of the band will be with us this summer but I can highly understand if not after this sad news and they need time to process the sad news
So shocked to hear this news and felt very sad. Love The East Pointers. Seen them 3 times before and was looking forward to seeing them again at Wickham festival in the summer. RIP Koady. Fine banjo player.
Terribly sad news.
Tragic news. Fine band .
To young to go 😥
Newly confirmed for the 2022 Wickham Festival. The English Fiddle Ensemble and singer-songwriter Maz O'Connor www.youtube.com/watch?v=668ulQO1D1A
