Wickham Festival News

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!!!

Our festival site was a hive of activity this Thursday evening as our build got going. We’re so looking forward to enjoying great live music in the safe outdoors again.  Please keep up to date with our site build progress across our social channels as we’ll be adding new photos every day as things takes shape.

The site build begins! Stand-by for the best ever Wickham Festival.

We’ve also now added performance times across all 4 stages in our line up section.  To help you plan your weekend, check out our page on Clashfinder.  There are some fantastic artists to discover on The Quay West Cave and Acoustic Stages such as Justin Capps and The Cavaliers with their Americana-tinged Acoustic Indie-Folk with Soul.  They will be are headlining The Quay West Cave on Friday, 6th August.  Every year we get great feedback about bands you’ve discovered and we’re passionate about supporting our local artists.

We’d also like to thank The Guitar Store Southampton who are kindly sponsoring The Acoustic Stage this year.  They have generously donated a guitar, and not just any guitar … a Fender CD60 V3 Dreadnought!  This will be signed by artists appearing at the festival, before being raffled for the fantastic George’s Rockstars CharityClick here to enter the raffle.

All proceeds (minus transaction fee) go to George’s Rockstars (charity no# 1188730) which provides music therapy for children in hospital, currently at Queen Alexandra hospital, Portsmouth and very soon at Southampton Children’s Hospital.

George’s Rockstars are running a body percussion workshop at the Acoustic Stage on Saturday 7th (morning time tbc) with their music therapist Cathy.  They will also have a stall with musical instrument craft activities for the kids.  Please visit their stall and show your support for Helping Kids Rock by providing music therapy for children in hospital.

We look forward to welcoming you all this time next week.
The (very busy) Wickham Festival Team

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    Weve been at The Showmans Show near Newbury today, meeting event suppliers including The Magic Teapot crew, and looking at new infrastructure for Wickham 2025.  Two Magic Teapots anyone?

    We've been at The Showman's Show near Newbury today, meeting event suppliers including The Magic Teapot crew, and looking at new infrastructure for Wickham 2025. Two Magic Teapots anyone? ... See MoreSee Less

    3 weeks ago

    39 CommentsComment on Facebook

    Cant have too many magic teapots - but can traders PLEASE have a local wifi network as some other festivals do, the poor phone/internet signal at the new site was a big problem 🙂

    Two would be good One huge one less so. Magic teapot is an escape

    Would prefer 1 magic teapot and the return of Bunnychow 😀

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    Way back before Covid The Song for Wickham was written by Steve Knightley to celebrate Wickhams 800th anniversary.  Post-Covid Steve & Wickhams Community Choir performed the song at the 2022 Wickham Festival.  Now you can buy the recording which is one of 12 fine tracks on Steves The Winter Yards album.Image attachmentImage attachment

    Way back before Covid The Song for Wickham was written by Steve Knightley to celebrate Wickham's 800th anniversary. Post-Covid Steve & Wickham's Community Choir performed the song at the 2022 Wickham Festival. Now you can buy the recording which is one of 12 fine tracks on Steve's The Winter Yards album. ... See MoreSee Less

    1 month ago

    5 CommentsComment on Facebook

    Oooh yes please Steve and Phil, show of hands next year would be excellent!! 👍

    Wickham Music Festival please please please can we have him/ Show of Hands back next year ? ❤️🎶Lx

    Is he booked for Wickham Music Festival 2025?

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