RowdeFest 2025!

Okay, I can’t keep the secret any longer or I’ll pop! While all the hard work is being organised by a lovely committee, because they showered me with biscuits I’ve been doing the easy bits of arranging some live music and designing a poster for Rowde Fest 2025…..

It’s happening on Saturday 31st May from 1-7pm, it’s free, you can roly-poly down Dunkirk Hill, and join our village family fete-like festival at the Rowde Small Playing Field (next to the church); no pressure, but I think you’ll like it!

Already confirmed we have music from Thieves, Adam Woodhouse’s marvellous Americana quartet. With a village connection, the most wonderful new band on everyone’s lips, Burn The Midnight Oil are playing too. The incredible Sarah C Ryan Band are up for it, and local legend Andrew Hurst is also on the blossoming line-up.

And I believe we may have some super-duper, and I mean super, surprises, like, “possibly” the best indie pop band in Wiltshire, and acoustic god, and oh, did I say it’s super-duper?!

Hold the front page!! More great acts to be confirmed!

Update: Wiltshire’s finest indie-pop band Talk In Code have just confirmed; you’ll love these guys!

There’s Devizes Jubilee Morris dancers, children’s activities, face painting, food and drink and side stalls, and more. You all should know by now Rowde has the best ice cream this side of Italy, so yes, Rowdey Cow are sure to be there.

It is all free, but, you lovely people, we really need some kind donations on the gate, if you can, so we can ensure we can make it an annual occasion.

If you’ve an idea for a side stall, please let us know and I’ll pitch it to the committee, they don’t bite, or at least I’ve seen no evidence of it yet.

I’m even over-excited to share the poster with you! Subject to alterations, as if I could possibly find any more room on it for other acts yet to confirm, the poster has been collated by me, but is also the fine artistic work of three pupils from Rowde Academy. So a huge thank you to Luca Dowling, Theo Doherty, and Lila Ransome for their inspirational pictures, which were incorporated into our poster.

I look forward to seeing you there; you are coming, right? Here’s the Facebook event page thingy. It wouldn’t be the same without you.

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