more acts confirmed for Wickham

Saw Doctors, The Blues Band, Show of Hands, and more

By Scott Williams | Published: Thu 14th Feb 2008

Stokes Bay Festival 2008 - The Saw Doctors
Photo credit: Karen Williams

Stokes Bay Festival 2008

Thursday 31st July to Sunday 3rd August 2008
Stokes Bay, Hampshire, England MAP
£100

The Wickham Festival held in the Hampshire village of Wickham has confirmed more acts for the event held from Thursday 31st July until Sunday 3rd August.

Irish electric folk rockers The Saw Doctors, Sixties supergroup The Blues Band, Devon folk/roots band Show of Hands, harmonious singer Chumbawamba (acoustic), Scottish guitarist Dick Gaughan, and the extraordinary throat singers Huun Huur-Tu from Tuva are the latest artists confirmed for the Wickham Festival in Hampshire.

They join a line-up that already includes the Levellers, Capercaillie, Bellowhead, 3 Daft Monkeys, Michael McGoldrick & Friends, The New Rope String Band, Gretchen Peters, Devon Sproule, The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, and Phill Jupitus & The Blockheads.

The Wickham Festival is widely regarded as one of Britain's safest and friendliest festivals with not a single crime or incident of trouble in the past two years.

Other attractions for festival goers include The Groovy Movie solar-powered cinema, Hand To Mouth Puppet Theatre Company, Ticklish Allsorts, a Travelling Observatory, Punch & Judy, Crafts Fayre, and Real Ale bars.

Tickets are on sale, priced as follows:-
Weekend Season Tickets: Adult £85 until 31 March, then £100; Under-16 £42.50 until 31 March then £50; Under-10s Free.
Camping Tickets: £15 until 31 March then £20 per tent or caravan for the whole weekend.
Day Tickets are also available, £20 for the Thursday and £30 for any other day. Under-10s will be free.

Tickets can be bought by clicking here.

The Saw Doctors


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