WELCOME TO YOUR NEW MIDDLEWICH FOLK & BOAT FESTIVAL

Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival is back in the hands of the Community. It is being run as a community festival to benefit the people of Middlewich and continue the long standing tradition of the festival.

Moving away from big name headliners, the festival will focus on developing the event specifically for the community of Middlewich. Using the festival to showcase local groups within the community, promote local business and where permitting promote local bands as well as up and coming artists.

The festival aims to create an event driven by the local community which delivers great entertainment to the town and enables our businesses to thrive.

We can only achieve this goal with the support of everyone within the town and the continued support of the local businesses.

What To Expect From The Festival

The festival is still aiming to achieve much of the original festival activities, focusing around what the ‘folks’ who support the festival want to see happening in their town.

Music this year is focused around supporting local artists, up and coming artists as well as providing the town with some festival favourites from years past.

The floating market makes a return and will comprise the largest amount of boats ever to take part in the floating market!

The Salinae field will again host a collection of stalls including food and beverage stalls.

Wheelock Street will be hosting a market as well with a road closure in place to support the return of the festival parade.

The bullring will host numerous community groups over the course of the weekend with Radio Northwich hosting the main event on the Saturday.

The main site on Market Field will host numerous acts during the weekend, the Friday & Saturday evenings will be ticketed with the rest of the weekend remaining free.

Beartown Brewery can be found across the whole festival over the weekend with their limited edition festival beer brewed especially for the festival.