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Wickham Festival 2024 site build diary

We’ll update this news post from top (older) to bottom (newer) to tell you our site build story for 2024 on our brand new 28 acres of flat and well-drained grassland. Don’t forget to follow our Facebook page to get the very latest news and more photos. It really is an exciting task having a new site to construct what we think will be a huge improvement to previous years. The weather is looking perfect too, plenty of sun but no heatwave … the ideal weather for a festival.

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Stage times announced for Quay West, Acoustic, and Twisted Tearooms Stages

We’ve just added stage times for our Quay West, Acoustic, and Twisted Tearooms Stages to our line up page.  These smaller stages are the place to see the very best local artists and the wealth of talented musicians we have right here on our doorstep. Wickham Festival has always been about supporting local artists and promoting our part of the world. 

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Our new arena field gets the green light!

Great news! In the last few days, the Premises Licence for our wonderful new Festival site has been approved by Winchester City Council. We now have 28 acres of flat and well-drained grassland for our arena with much better pedestrian and vehicle access than ever before. No more long walks from campsites to arena. No more slippery slopes to negotiate. And hopefully no more mud! Our new arena field is so much better in every way. These photos taken last week show how lovely our new arena field is.

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It’s bookings galore across our 2024 weekend!

It’s been a busy and productive fortnight at Wickham HQ with 10 new bookings confirmed since we announced the legendary Suzi Quatro will be headlining our Friday night. She will be joined on Friday 2nd August by Ranagri, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Sarah Smout, and The Longest Johns. This will be a Wickham debut for the award-winning English/Irish folk band Ranagri.

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Suzi Quatro will be headlining Wickham Festival 2023

Drum roll please … the iconic Suzi Quatro will be headlining Wickham Festival on Friday 2nd August 2023.  We really are over the moon to welcome Suzi and her fantastic band to the Wickham stage.  We’re sure this will be one to remember! 

Her huge hit, Can the Can went to number one in May 1973, and then go on to sell two and a half million copies worldwide.

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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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