Stowmarket Festival 2012 - 1st to 10th June.
We're delighted to be able to bring the residents of Stowmarket another excellent schedule of events and activities for this year's Stowmarket Festival. There are events and activities taking place to suit a wide variety of tastes and much of it is free or heavily subsidised.There's the hugely popular free blues festival StowBlues at the Museum of East Anglian Life, free arts and craft workshops for children at the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts, a subsidised sports event for children at Cedars Park School, a free event targeted specifically at older people called Coffee and Comedy at Stowmarket Community Centre, live music from The Proposition and Jon Hart in the Town Centre, free drumming workshops, a children's 5-a-side football tournament at Stowmarket Football Club and much more. You can find the full schedule at this link.
And we're very fortunate that thisyear's festival happens to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Therefore, the festival includes several jubilee related events including the first big community event ever on Cedars Park on Sunday 3rd June and a huge Jubilee celebration at the Recreation Ground on Monday 4th June.
As usual, the festival will conclude with Stowmarket's biggest music event, StowFest, at Chilton Fields on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June. This year's line-up is surely one of the best you'll find at any free community festival. Some of the very best acts from the local music scene will combine with top acts from further afield to deliver a hugely diverse line-up covering everything from bluegrass to ska to funk to rock to samba to indie and much more. Visit www.stowfest.co.uk for more information.
Stowmarket residents will shortly be receiving a festival guide through their doors whilst you can find the full schedule here.
We hope you enjoy the festival and if you have any questions about it, or if you or your organisation would like to organise an event as part of Stowmarket Festival 2013, please get in touch.
Daniel Harvey
Public Services Manager
Stowmarket Town Council
