Wickham Festival News

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.

Thank you also to all those of you who have newly purchased tickets for next year. 2021 tickets are now on sale at 2020 prices for a limited time via our tickets page.

For those of you seeking refunds on tickets bought for this year’s Festival, please bear with us. We hope to process all refund requests within the next 28 days.

PLEASE HELP KEEP OUR WICKHAM FESTIVAL GOING. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR NEW CROWDFUNDER PAGE!

Our Wickham Festival is run entirely by volunteers on a ‘not-for-profit’ basis. We don’t take a penny for ourselves. All our ticket income is ploughed back into making our lovely Festival even better. Which is all good until a global pandemic comes along.

Postponing this year’s Festival has cost us a huge sum. We’d already spent over £50,000 on this year’s Festival – money which cannot be recouped. Plus another £100,000+ on artists & infrastructure deposits. Which leaves us with a cash-flow problem, especially as we’re also having to refund those ticket-holders unable or unwilling to rollover their tickets to next year.

Because we run on a ‘not-for-profit’ basis and plough all revenues back into the Festival we love, we have very little in reserves to tide us over to next year. So we’ve set-up a Crowdfunder page to help us raise the funds we urgently need to ensure our Festival can survive and pay its bills at this difficult time. Bluntly we need YOUR support to help us survive and pay our bills until tickets for next year’s Festival start selling again at their usual rate. Anything you are able to give will be used 100% on ensuring our Festival survives and returns next year bigger & better than ever before.

We’ve never sought funding support like this before but we will be really, really grateful for any help you can give us in these difficult times.

You can go to our Crowdfunder page and support us by clicking on this link.

There are some amazing rewards for those who support us in our hour of need ranging from 20% off all t-shirts, programmes & merchandise at next year’s Festival to the chance to see behind the scenes at how the Festival is run or even have your own personal bar or luxury loo in 2021.

2020 WICKHAM FESTIVAL CONCERT TO GO AHEAD THIS AUGUST

We may have no Festival this August but following this week’s Government announcement that outdoor concerts can now go-ahead with a limited capacity, we’re going to stage a special concert one evening of what would have been our Festival weekend featuring one of our headline acts. More details in a few days time. And for those who can’t attend, we’re going to livestream it on the internet so everyone can still enjoy a little bit of Wickham this August – a reminder of what we’ve got to look forward to in 2021.

Thank you again for your support. Stay safe. We’ll see you again soon.

Best wishes,
The Wickham Festival Team

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    Another fantastic artist confirmed (subject to contract).  Chart-topping singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan will make her Wickham Festival debut on Friday 1st August.  Day & weekend tickets now onsale via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
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    Another fantastic artist confirmed (subject to contract). Chart-topping singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan will make her Wickham Festival debut on Friday 1st August. Day & weekend tickets now onsale via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
    lucyspraggan.com/
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    2 days ago

    27 CommentsComment on Facebook

    Just checked her out, sounds good!

    No way now you’re really making me regret my decision !!!

    Shut the front door!!! Newton Faulkner and Lucy Spraggan on the same night? Please don’t make me choose between them!!! Xx

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    Newly confirmed.  The wonderful singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner will make his Wickham Festival debut on Friday, 1st Aug.  Same day as Fishermans Friends; Talisk & Flook among many others.  Day & weekend tickets now available via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets

    Newly confirmed. The wonderful singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner will make his Wickham Festival debut on Friday, 1st Aug. Same day as Fisherman's Friends; Talisk & Flook among many others. Day & weekend tickets now available via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets ... See MoreSee Less

    3 days ago

    38 CommentsComment on Facebook

    That is a great booking. Honestly one of the nicest people you could meet and one of the best live performers. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    He's been on my wish list for YEARS!!!

    Fantastic news! He was SO good at Glastonbury Abbey last summer, as were 3 Daft Monkeys - can we have them back too please? 🙂

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    Our Twitter Feed

    More artists confirmed! @IanProwse and Amsterdam will be at this year's #WickhamFestival on Sunday 3rd August. Ian toured with Elvis Costello last year and is touring with Levellers this Spring.

    We've kept Earlybird prices as low as possible for as long as possible but prices have to rise soon. You can still save £80 on every weekend ticket if you book before midnight on Sun Dec 5. A four-day ticket is currently just £180, that's just £45 a day http://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets

    We're delighted to announce that @Oysterband1 will be extending their 'Long, Long Goodbye' Tour to appear at #WickhamFestival. They'll be with us on Sunday, 3rd August 2025.

    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

    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.
    https://peatbogfaeries.com/bio/