Wickham Festival News

Frank Turner and our Wickham Festival history buffs … the perfect match

This really couldn’t get any better in the build up to Wickham Festival 2019. As many of you know each year our friends at Wickham History Society arrange history walks around Wickham village, but guess who is a self-professed massive history nerd? Only our main headliner, Frank Turner!!! Check out his podcasts launching this July just in time for Wickham Festival…

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This weekend is your last chance to save £20 for a weekend ticket!

Wow it’s just over a month until this year’s festival gets going and we can’t wait to get welcome you all to Wickham Festival 2019.  It promises to be our best ever event with so many incredible artists to look forward to and what we hope you’ll agree are improvements everywhere to make your experience better than ever before.

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Our Festival camping just got a whole lot better

Great News! We’ve secured an extra 28 acres of well-drained, grassed fields with excellent access via a tarmac road running the entire length of the fields meaning that, for the first time, everyone can camp on grass at this year’s Wickham Festival whether you’re in a tent, caravan, camper van, motorhome or any combination of them all. No more stubble! No more mud, hooray!

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Thursday daytime walk on the beautiful South Downs before the festival starts

Please join us for a Thursday daytime walk on the beautiful South Downs prior to the opening of Wickham Festival 2019. It will be led by John Jones and the Reluctant Ramblers before they play a set later that evening. John Jones is the charismatic lead singer of the award-winning Oysterband who last performed at Wickham in 2017. What a great way to kick off our weekend!

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Wickham Festival wins “Best Festival” category in The Portsmouth News Guide Awards, Hampshire!

What an incredible night we had at The Portsmouth News Culture Guide Awards winning the “Best Festival” category supported by the ever popular Victorious Festival. The Culture Guide Awards is the night that The Portsmouth News honour the best in local entertainment, from bands to artists and actors to films.

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    Our first major act for next year Ferocious Dog are playing @the1865 in Southampton on Friday October 31. Make sure you catch them to see what you can expect at Wickham on August 1.

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    We're delighted to announce The John Jones Trio feat. Oysterband's John Jones, Al Scott & Ray Cooper will be at Wickham next summer.

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    So sad to hear of the sudden passing of Shamus O'Blivion and the Megadeath Morrismen front man Mick who has lit up the Wickham Festival with his stage presence, humour and wonderful music
    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17YCaG4tGB/ He will be sadly missed by all of us

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    Congratulations to Alison Smith on winning the 2025 Wickham Festival signed guitar. Thank you to all who entered the raffle and helpd raise funds for the very deserving George's Rockstars.

    The new charity single “The Lifeboat” with the incredible Skipinnish has sailed straight to No.12 on the UK Download Chart!

    Let’s push it even higher and raise as much as we can for the amazing RNLI

    https://linktr.ee/SkipinnishTheLifeboat

    #Skipinnish #RNLI #CharitySingle #UKDownloadChart

    You have until Sunday to buy tickets to be in with a chance of winning guitar signed by @LeoSayerReal @gladtobegay @RthompsonMusic @judietzuke @Fishy_Friends & more Tickets cost £2 & money raised goes to children's music therapy charity George's Rockstars https://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/20477-2/

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