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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    Well be announcing another top-class artist tomorrow (Thursday) for our 2025 Wickham Festival (31 July to 3 August 2025).  A household name, a UK singer whos had 6 x Top 10 albums and 10 x Top 10 singles plus 2 American No. 1s.  Any guesses?

    We'll be announcing another top-class artist tomorrow (Thursday) for our 2025 Wickham Festival (31 July to 3 August 2025). A household name, a UK singer who's had 6 x Top 10 albums and 10 x Top 10 singles plus 2 American No. 1's. Any guesses? ... See MoreSee Less

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    Will you be rearranging the position of the main stages to guard against sound contamination of other stage’s next year.

    Would love to bring The RPJ Band one year 😜🤘

    Google says Elton John.

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    Another confirmation!  The excellent Reg Meuross and his quartet feat. Phil Beer, Marion Fleetwood & Geraint Watkins will be bringing their Fire & Dust / Woody Guthrie story to Wickham on Sunday 3rd August 2025.  Cheap-rate earlybird day & weekend tickets still available (if you hurry!) via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets

    Another confirmation! The excellent Reg Meuross and his quartet feat. Phil Beer, Marion Fleetwood & Geraint Watkins will be bringing their 'Fire & Dust' / Woody Guthrie story to Wickham on Sunday 3rd August 2025. Cheap-rate 'earlybird' day & weekend tickets still available (if you hurry!) via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets ... See MoreSee Less

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    Soo looking forward to coming back to Wickham Music Festival with this exciting new project!

    Wow, that's an awesome quartet with some awesome material!!!!!!

    Is there any chance of getting Seth Lakeman back again?

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    Another confirmation! The excellent @regmeuross and his quartet feat. Phil Beer, Marion Fleetwood & Geraint Hughes will be bringing their 'Fire & Dust' / Woody Guthrie tribute to #WickhamFestival on Sunday 3rd August 2025.

    The wonderful @katerusby, Mercury Prize Winner & 6-times BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner, is our latest confirmed artist for #WickhamFestival 2025. Kate will be appearing on Sunday 3rd August. Earlybird day & weekend tickets are now onsale via

    Another artist confirmation. We're delighted to say that the multi-award-winning Scottish band @TaliskMusic will be appearing at #WickhamFestival next summer on Friday 1st August 2025. Day & Weekend tickets now onsale via

    We're delighted to announce our first confirmed artists for the 2025 #WickhamFestival. @Fishy_Friends will be at Wickham on Friday 1st August 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNCcSJiZR1I...

    Missed out on @oasis tickets? You can enjoy a full weekend of top quality music at #wickhamfestival instead... and tickets are a lot easier to book. Simply go to and save up to £100 on an Early Bird weekend ticket if you book now.

    We've fewer than 100 'earlybird' weekend season tickets still available for Wickham 2025. At just £40 a day (£160 for the weekend) with no added booking fees, they're the Festival bargain of the summer so don't delay. Prices have to rise next weekend.