Wickham Festival News

Campsite opening on Wed 2nd August

Posted on by Peter Chegwyn

We’ll be opening our campsites from 5pm to 9pm on Wednesday 2nd August and, for early arrivals, we’ve organised an extra free concert at Wickham Community Centre on Wednesday evening featuring TradArr and Les Barker plus support.

We’ve extra grassed fields available this year for the first time and all camping fields will have space available for early arrivals with plenty of space remaining for all arriving Thursday or later.   We’ll have fresh water standpipes plus chemical toilet disposal tanks.

Camp at Wickham Festival 2017 in style…

Enjoy some luxury at this year’s Festival in our exclusive Camel Camp – inc. backstage VIP Passes.  Please visit www.festivalglamping.com/wickenham-festival for full details.

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    More artists confirmed! Were delighted to announce that Oysterband will be extending their Long, Long Goodbye Tour to appear at the Wickham & Shrewsbury Festivals in August 2025. Theyll be at Wickham on Sunday, 3rd August 2025 (same day as Kate Rusby; The Peatbog Faeries & Reg Meuross among others). Cheap-rate earlybird day & weekend tickets now onsale via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets

    More artists confirmed! We're delighted to announce that Oysterband will be extending their 'Long, Long Goodbye' Tour to appear at the Wickham & Shrewsbury Festivals in August 2025. They'll be at Wickham on Sunday, 3rd August 2025 (same day as Kate Rusby; The Peatbog Faeries & Reg Meuross among others). Cheap-rate earlybird day & weekend tickets now onsale via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets ... See MoreSee Less

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    Confirmed line-up so far: The Fisherman's Friends; Kate Rusby; Oysterband; Leo Sayer; The Peatbog Faeries; Talisk; Reg Meuross with many more to come. Tickets selling fast, if you've yet to get yours you can still save £££s by buying via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets

    They were great at the Wedge the other night so looking forward to this. Nigel Revis obviously not as deaf as you think I am 😂😂

    Fantastic news

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    6 Dec

    We're delighted to announce that chart-topping singer songwriter @LeoSayerReal will be at Wickham next year on Saturday 2nd August 2025. Cheap-rate earlybird day & weekend season tickets still onsale for a limited time via

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    Hailing from the Isle of Skye, one of Scotland's best live bands, The @PeatbogFaeries will be at #WickhamFestival next summer on Sunday 3rd August 2025.
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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.

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    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

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    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

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    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...

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