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 News
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.
Wickham Festival 2021 To Go-Ahead As Planned!
The Government have announced their intention to allow large gatherings including music festivals to be staged without restrictions from June 21st onwards. This means our Wickham Festival in August can go-ahead as planned.
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Wickham Festival presents: An Evening with Breabach – Tuesday 16th February
The award-winning Scottish folk band Breabach, current holders of the Album of the Year award, will become the first band from Scotland to embark upon a virtual tour in 2021, covering some of their favourite venues and festivals in the UK – including Wickham. Supported by grant funding from Creative Scotland, they have teamed up with BAFTA winning animator Cat Bruce to create a unique performance for a virtual tour between 11th February and 6th March 2021. Each of the five band members has written brand new music, which has been set to a new animation – Dùsgadh – specifically created for the tour.
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2021 Wickham Festival Tickets Update
Hello and a Happy New Year! Let’s hope that with the roll-out of the vaccine, 2021 is a much better year than 2020. Certainly the prospects for our Festival being staged as normal next August look much, much better than they did a few weeks ago.
December 2020 Update
With the good news on vaccines it looks much more likely that festivals and other outdoor events will be able to take place as planned next summer. Our own plans are well-advanced. 53 of the 55 main stage artists booked for 2020 are now confirmed for 2021 and we’ve added Lindisfarne and Scottish fiddle ace Duncan Chisholm to our 2021 line-up which can be viewed here.
Thank you to all our supporters!
We should have been enjoying the first evening at Wickham Festival 2020 right now with Spike’s All-Stars about to take to the stage as our opening headliners. Just to rub it in we’re forecast a glorious weekend of sunshine over this weekend.
Wickham Festival to stage a special show
Wickham Festival organisers are to stage a one-off drive-in concert starring Show of Hands after being forced to postpone this year’s main event. Continue reading “Wickham Festival to stage a special show”
Please support our new Crowdfunder page
Thank you to the 100s of people who’ve contacted us since we were forced to postpone this year’s Wickham Festival to 2021. Your support and encouragement to keep going has been a huge source of comfort to us. Thank you to all who have pledged to rollover your tickets to next year. That is a tremendous help to us at this difficult time.
Wickham Festival organisers unhappy with lack of Government guidance
Wickham Festival organisers have hit out at the Government after being forced to postpone next month’s event. Continue reading “Wickham Festival organisers unhappy with lack of Government guidance”
Wickham Festival postponed to 2021
Dear Friends,
Firstly, we’d like to say a huge thank you for your patience and support while we’ve been navigating our way through this very difficult time – it really does mean so much to all our Wickham Festival Team.
Wickham Festival – COVID-19 UPDATE Monday 1st June, 2020
With the sun shining, lockdown easing, open-air markets & other venues opening, we thought you might like an update on this year’s Wickham Festival.
First & foremost, the health & safety of all our artists, audience, staff & suppliers along with our local Wickham community must come first. Our Festival can only go-ahead if it’s felt safe for it do so in 10 weeks time.
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Wickham Festival – COVID-19 UPDATE – Part 2
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Wickham Festival – COVID-19 UPDATE
Hello! The Prime Minister has announced the closure of all public entertainment venues for the foreseeable future. Assuming this ban is relaxed at some point before early August the Wickham Festival will be ON. Given our August dates are still 20 weeks away we hope the peak of the pandemic will be over by then and you will be able to leave your homes and enjoy yourselves again listening to the likes of Van Morrison, The Waterboys and many more.
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Just seven weeks to the start of this year's Wickham Festival feat. Van Morrison; The Waterboys; Lindisfarne; Seth Lakeman; The Dhol Foundation; Show of Hands; Nick Lowe; The South; Eliza Carthy; Capercaillie; Eddi Reader; The Peatbog Faeries & so many more. Aug. 5-8. Last few tickets onsale now www.wickhamfestival.co.uk
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Can't wait to be working at this event this year after such a miserable time for every one. Not many tickets left guys n gals so let's get this party started. See you there 💕
🤞🤞it's not going to be cancelled
Wickham from the air! Can you spot our Festival fields near the top of the photo? Arena, day parking & tented camping fields to the right of the airplane wing. Caravans & motorhomes camping to the left. Photo credit Alistair Ritchie last weekend.
Food, glorious food. We're delighted to say that all our favourite food stalls will be back at Wickham in August including the wonderful Waffaholic. What are your taste buds looking forward to? Waffaholic UK
It will be our first time so very interested to know what food stalls you all recommend
Yay paella. What about Cheesy Vinyl?
Paella; Bunny chow; Bowman Swift One. 😋
Bunny chow & churros 😋
Cheese on toast . Yummy.
Bowman s
The crepe van !!! Anything gluten free this year ????
Paella man
Cheesy Vinyl Tartiflette please 😋 Accompanied by a nice drop of festival red if you don’t mind 🍷🍷
Message from Phil Odgers - 'The Men They Couldn't Hang' - Come all you Hampshire people! June 21st - ADVANCE TICKETS ONLY - LIMITED NUMBERS!
I am proud to announce I will be playing the first gig(s) of 2021 at the intimate FOREST FOLK CLUB in North Boarhunt near Wickham. Apart from my online shows this is my first actual gig since December 2019.
I will be doing 2 gigs on the same day with 2 sets each. First show starts at 4PM and second show at 8PM – that’s 4 sets (about 40 songs – give or take the waffle!).
Get your tickets now for these very special gigs.
Booking is essential, tickets cost £15. Visit www.forestfolk.co.uk for tickets and more info.
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Thanks for the post. I’m gutted I can’t get to Wickham Music Festival this year but I WILL embrace the spirit of the festival in my sets on this gig …and will do the Wickham Song in the afternoon session… that’s where it was written after all 🙂
The good news is that even tho' the Govt. have delayed the next step of their roadmap to mid-July, our Wickham Festival can - and will - still go-ahead as planned in August. Last few tickets onsale now: www.wickhamfestival.co.uk
www.wickhamfestival.co.uk
The OFFICIAL website for WICKHAM FESTIVAL containing line up details, news, festival information, galleries and advice on how to purchase tickets.Hope its all socially distanced and very well spread out unlike most years where its difficult to walk between one tent and another and food queues form into the stage areas
Woohooo. Can't wait to be there again. Such a wonderful event.
Amazing news, I’ve sent an email
Excellent news! I’m lining up some pre-festival interviews for Off the Beaten Track; Megson and Kitty Macfarlane booked in. Awaiting dates for others.
Great news, but how can you be sure?
Great news Peter.
What day is Van Morrison playing?
Still on Helen Jayne ! 😎
We are SO looking forward to this! 😊
Excellent news. Bring it on!
Such good news. Can't wait for Wickham - our favourite festival!!
Great news, it's going to be good.
Excellent, can't wait 🤘👍
Trudy Robertson Mark Robertson
Woohoo. At least we get one festival this year 🤩. Hopefully Cropredy and BDays will hold their nerves #onaknifeedge
Fantastic. Well done Wickham and all involved.
🙏 🎪🎶🪕🎻🎸🎹🕺🍻
Les Emmence 👀
We can and definately will be there 😃😎😁
Looking less likely for a Manx invasion 😢 but if they do relax restrictions in time on our side we will be their
...and true to form, they did...
