Folk legend Judy Collins has – in the words of her biggest hit – looked at life from both sides now… and has somehow come through the triumphs and the tragedy. Continue reading “Judy Collins looks at life from both sides”
Wickham Festival News
Sea Shanty Saturday
Ahoy there! Climb aboard for our Mini Sea Shanty festival on Saturday from noon. Continue reading “Sea Shanty Saturday”
Festival Stage Times Announced…
We are pleased to say that all performance times on both our main stages have now been added to our website and can be viewed in our line up section. We really do feel this is our strongest ever line up with so many incredible and diverse artists performing. We’ve tried to avoid clashes between similar artists as much as possible.
Frank Turner and our Wickham Festival history buffs … the perfect match
This really couldn’t get any better in the build up to Wickham Festival 2019. As many of you know each year our friends at Wickham History Society arrange history walks around Wickham village, but guess who is a self-professed massive history nerd? Only our main headliner, Frank Turner!!! Check out his podcasts launching this July just in time for Wickham Festival…
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This weekend is your last chance to save £20 for a weekend ticket!
Wow it’s just over a month until this year’s festival gets going and we can’t wait to get welcome you all to Wickham Festival 2019. It promises to be our best ever event with so many incredible artists to look forward to and what we hope you’ll agree are improvements everywhere to make your experience better than ever before.
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Our Festival camping just got a whole lot better
Great News! We’ve secured an extra 28 acres of well-drained, grassed fields with excellent access via a tarmac road running the entire length of the fields meaning that, for the first time, everyone can camp on grass at this year’s Wickham Festival whether you’re in a tent, caravan, camper van, motorhome or any combination of them all. No more stubble! No more mud, hooray!
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Frank Turner excited to be playing Wickham Festival
Frank Turner is already looking forward to headlining the Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Frank Turner excited to be playing Wickham Festival”
Meet Frank Turner at WH Smith Winchester
Saturday headliner Frank Turner will be signing copies of his new book at WH Smith in Winchester on Friday March 22 at 12.30pm. Continue reading “Meet Frank Turner at WH Smith Winchester”
Frank Turner to headline Wickham Festival
Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls have been unveiled as the big Saturday night headline act for Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Frank Turner to headline Wickham Festival”
Rock legend Graham Nash plays Wickham Festival
Rock legend Graham Nash is the latest big name to be confirmed for the Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Rock legend Graham Nash plays Wickham Festival”
Thursday daytime walk on the beautiful South Downs before the festival starts
Please join us for a Thursday daytime walk on the beautiful South Downs prior to the opening of Wickham Festival 2019. It will be led by John Jones and the Reluctant Ramblers before they play a set later that evening. John Jones is the charismatic lead singer of the award-winning Oysterband who last performed at Wickham in 2017. What a great way to kick off our weekend!
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Wickham Festival wins “Best Festival” category in The Portsmouth News Guide Awards, Hampshire!
What an incredible night we had at The Portsmouth News Culture Guide Awards winning the “Best Festival” category supported by the ever popular Victorious Festival. The Culture Guide Awards is the night that The Portsmouth News honour the best in local entertainment, from bands to artists and actors to films.
Happy New Year from all the Wickham Festival team
Over the last few days we’ve been busy updating our line up pages to show artists who will be appearing at Wickham Festival 2019. We think this our best line up ever so it’s hard to summise what we’ll be enjoying next summer, but here’s a quick run through of some highlights.
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Can you spot yourself in our 2018 festival gallery?
Today is officially the first day of winter and what better way to cheer yourself up than reminisce about the festival we enjoyed this summer. We had blue sky and sunshine all weekend. To help remind you, we’ve just published our Wickham Festival 2018 Gallery. Thanks again to Guy Reece for managing our team of photographers. As ever it’s the Real Stars of Wickham we enjoy most. Can you spot yourself?
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Last Chance to save £60 on every 2019 adult weekend season ticket
Our 2019 Wickham Festival dates are Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th August 2019. If you’ve yet to book your ‘earlybird’ weekend season tickets for next year you can still save a whopping £60 on every adult ticket if you book by Friday 31st August via our tickets page. We’ve already sold a record number of ‘earlybird’ tickets for 2019 so please hurry if you’ve yet to book. Prices rise on 1st September.
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Pleased to say The Tuneless Choir will be leading a 'Big Sing' again on Sunday 4th August at 12 noon
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You’ll love The Copper family. Grew up in the same area as them.
Not a very high bar... but yes, it will be a good one. Any more announcements to be made?
Is Jerry Douglas still playing ?
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We're sorry to report that London Irish band Neck will no longer be appearing at Wickham following the sad death of their frontman Leeson O'Keeffe from pancreatic cancer. 😢
Steve Harley was an audience favourite at Wickham Festival, and a delight to work with. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
Steve Harley: Cockney Rebel singer dies at 73
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68590846
The Saw Doctors would like to say a Big Thanks to everybody who has bought or streamed ‘All We Love’ today —the new single is Number 3 in Ireland and No. 23 in the UK. Here’s the link to buy or stream ‘All We Love’
https://orcd.co/allwelove
Wonderfully evocative and typically catchy song from our old friends @sawdoctors ready for #StPatricksDay
Would love to hear them do this at #wickhamfesival one day. Great stuff!
We're delighted to announce that 16-times GRAMMY Award winner Jerry Douglas, one of the world's finest dobro & lap steel guitar players, will be at this year's Wickham Music Festival on Sat. 3rd Aug. Day & Weekend tickets selling fast!
