Phew, what a scorcher we just had! A huge THANK YOU to everyone that attended Wickham Festival 2022. This year was probably our best ever, thanks in no small part to four days of glorious sunshine. There was hardly a cloud in sight for the whole weekend … so much better than last year’s rain and mud! Continue reading “Thank You & 2023 Earlybird Tickets”
Wickham Festival News
Author: Peter Chegwyn
Tips for arrival and our new site layout
With glorious weather forecast all weekend, this year’s Wickham Festival is set to be one of our best ever! We look forward to welcoming you this Thursday and hope you enjoy a wonderful weekend of magical music in beautiful scenic surroundings on our newly grassed fields. We hope you have a safe journey! Please note the following travel tips…
Two festivals for the price of one!
Wickham Music Festival 2022 is just days away but before then, on the Wednesday and Thursday daytime, our festival site is also being used for an exciting new Ideas Festival.
Stage times for this year’s Wickham Festival (Main Stages 1 & 2)
Now that it’s less than 2 weeks until we open our gates for Wickham Festival 2022 things sure are getting exciting … and busy for the team! Yesterday we posted our stage times on our social feeds and they have just been published to our Line Up pages.
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The Saw Doctors to headline Wickham Music Festival 2022
The Saw Doctors will celebrate 30 years of touring the UK on August 5th when they play an EXCLUSIVE summer show at Wickham Music Festival.
The Saw Doctors will celebrate thirty years of touring the UK this summer when the Galway band play an exclusive UK festival show at the Wickham Festival in Hampshire on Friday August 5th.
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Artists added to our Saturday and Sunday line up
We’ve just added new artist to our Saturday and Sunday pages. As ever there are diverse acts appearing throughout the weekend.
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A very merry Xmas to you all … can you spot yourself in this year’s gallery?
All involved with Wickham Festival would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy & Healthy New Year. 2021 has been a tough year for many people. Let’s hope 2022 is better for us all. There’s been no rest for the Wickham Festival elves this last week. If you’ve been following our social channels, you’ll see we’ve added several new artists to our line up. Here’s a quick recap of new pages added to our website.
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Presenting our Wickham Festival 2022 Line Up so far
For the last month we’ve been posting on our Facebook & Twitter channels the artists that we’ve booked for Wickham Festival 2022 so far. We finally felt we’ve now got enough acts to update our line pages. Wickham Festival 2022 will be staged from Thursday 4th to Sunday 7th August 2022 on our newly grassed arena field … no more straw stubble! We’ll be returning to our normal site layout next year with two Big Tops and all our usual attractions on a more compact site than in 2021.
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Our 2021 site build has begun!
With less than a week to go it’s nearly time to welcome you all back to Wickham Festival 2021. We’ll have great music and comedy, bars and food stalls, crafts, workshops and classes … it’s going to be a great year. We can’t wait!!!
Fairport Convention for Wickham Festival
Good news & bad news on artists appearing at next month’s Wickham Festival.
Sadly The Waterboys; Lil’ Jimmy Reed; The Slambovian Circus of Dreams; and Gaz Brookfield have all had to cancel due to COVID travel restrictions on artists from overseas and resulting UK tour cancellations.
All these artists are already re-booked for Wickham 2022. If you have Sunday day tickets for this year’s Festival you can either still attend or rollover your Sunday tickets to 2022. The Waterboys will now be appearing on Sunday 7th August 2022.
Last Chance to save £40 on Wickham Festival Tickets
With the sad news of two other festivals (WOMAD & Cropredy) being cancelled today we want to reassure you that Wickham is still going ahead as planned… even if the Government delay Step 4 of their roadmap out of lockdown on July 19. Continue reading “Last Chance to save £40 on Wickham Festival Tickets”
Late Night Comedy at Wickham Festival 2021
We’ve just updated our Late Night Comedy page within the Line Up section. This Late Night Comedy will take place in the Quay West Cave tent from 23.30 after music on the main stages finishes at 23.00. There’s also late-night storytelling and other entertainment until the arena closes at 01.00.
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Last 400 Season Tickets on sale
Thank you to everyone who’s already bought tickets for this year’s Wickham Festival. We really appreciate your support. We now have less than 400 weekend season tickets still to sell. Day tickets are also selling fast. If you’ve yet to buy yours, please don’t leave it too late. You can still save £40 on every adult weekend ticket if you buy now via our tickets page.
Wickham Festival 2021 T-shirts on sale today
We’re happy to say that you’re now able to purchase Wickham Festival 2021 T-shirts online in preparation for the summer.
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Half price tickets for NHS Staff
To show our gratitude to all NHS staff we’re offering them half price tickets. They’ve just gone on sale this morning on our tickets page. If purchasing these tickets please bring your NHS Photo ID with you to the Festival.