Drizzly Sunday…again. I’ve just finished designing the poster, so allow me to reveal the lineup for Rowdefest this coming May, might cheer us up a bit!
It was a hugely successful Rowdefest last year, and was lots of fun for all the family. We cordially invite you to do it all again this year! The wonderful committee is still hard at work, planning the day, and some work needs doing. But, we’ve set a date, Saturday 30th May, and kept the same times, from 1pm until 7pm.
It’s free, and it’s at the same location, the Small Playing Field in Rowde. There will be food and drink, lots of side stalls, tea, coffee and cakes in St Matthews Church. Our village’s famous ice cream parlour, The Rowdey Cow will be there, and you are welcome to bring deckchairs but the haystacks will be back too.
We really crammed in some fantastic music acts last year; this time we want you to explore the side stalls and have some fun before getting comfy around the main stage, but we will be opening the day with some music. A bit of a disco I reckon, some loved pop classics for all. I’m thinking eighties, the committee might knock me back a couple of decades, we’ll have to wait and see! I want to see some dancers though, and maybe there will be best dancers prizes, so get up and shake your thang!
The Devizes Jubilee Morris Dancers were brilliant last year, so we’ve invited them back again. Interactive by the end, more dancing required!
I’m delighted to say we have the sublime Ruby Darbyshire playing for us, who many of you will already know, and, I promise, will leave you in awe.
Headliner this year is Barrelhouse, Marlborough’s finest purveyors of vintage blues with a groove. You are going to love these guys, and you will be up dancing, again!
That’s all I’ve got, less is more. Just pop it in your diary and I hope to see you there!
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