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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Wickham Festival News
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.
Van Morrison confirmed for Wickham Festival
Van Morrison is to headline this year’s Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Van Morrison confirmed for Wickham Festival”
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Newly confirmed. The Trouble Notes will be at Wickham on Sunday 7th Aug. 2022 (They were due to be with us in 2021 but Covid prevented international travel). Great band!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz32pCBgIuI
Excellent news!!!
More than a hint of Black Violin about them
Pleased to confirm FitUp will be back at Wickham in August with their outdoor circus & cabaret shows plus hugely popular circus skills workshops
Day & Weekend Tickets available and selling fast. You can still save £50 on 4-day adult weekend season tickets if you book now via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
Can you get the 3 Daft Monkeys too??
When I went, the music was sooo excellent!!! However, there should deffo be less people sat on their arse in chairs🙄😑
Think it would be great if the solar cinema came back or something similar it was great for a bit of chill time with the children
Are the Sniffer Dogs coming?
Any chance big country?
Joanna Dovey x
Would love to see Bleeding Hearts here!
A great video from Fit Up circus skills performers. See if you can spot the segments from Wickham last summer (A clue - watch out for the mud!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2loB4pyJ10
We were pitched next to these guys - brilliant entertainment & so much fun
We love fit up ☺️
We're very sorry to hear that Koady Chaisson of award-winning Prince Edward Island band The East Pointers has died aged just 37. Our thoughts are with his family & friends at this sad time. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-koady-chaisson-obituary-1.6307210?fbclid=IwAR0TnE...
Koady Chaisson of award-winning P.E.I. band The East Pointers dead at 37 | CBC News
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P.E.I. musician Koady Chaisson, part of the Juno-winning three-man band the East Pointers, has died at the age of 37.Such a fine band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQ0Q3mpr6o
How sad 😥 They were excellent when we saw them a couple of years back. Rest in peace
Saw them twice at Canadian festivals. A quite phenomenal band, fluent, clever, so many hills they could still have climbed…/ I x
So sad hope the rest of the band will be with us this summer but I can highly understand if not after this sad news and they need time to process the sad news
So shocked to hear this news and felt very sad. Love The East Pointers. Seen them 3 times before and was looking forward to seeing them again at Wickham festival in the summer. RIP Koady. Fine banjo player.
Terribly sad news.
Tragic news. Fine band .
To young to go 😥
Newly confirmed for the 2022 Wickham Festival. The English Fiddle Ensemble and singer-songwriter Maz O'Connor www.youtube.com/watch?v=668ulQO1D1A
