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A very early announcement of next year’s Fareham & Gosport Easter Folk Festival and Wickham Festival (yes it’s back at Wickham, not Stokes Bay) arrived in my inbox today:

***  Earlybird Season Tickets for 2010 Now On Sale.  Big Discounts!  See Below ***

Hello!

Firstly, a big ‘Thank You’ to everyone who attended the 2009 Stokes Bay and Gosport & Fareham Easter Festivals.  We hope you enjoyed all the great live music.

Please note we have some unclaimed lost property from Stokes Bay.  If you lost anything please email us a description and we may be able to reunite you with your property.

2010 Festival Dates & Bargain ‘Earlybird’ Tickets

By popular acclaim, our Summer Festival will be returning to Wickham in 2010.
We staged two very popular and successful festivals there in 2006 & 2007 and we’re delighted to be returning to our attractive rural site on the outskirts of the historic and picturesque village of Wickham near Fareham in the Meon Valley (the locals are delighted we’re returning as well!).

Our 2010 Festival dates are:

i)  Gosport & Fareham Easter Folk Festival – Thursday April 1 to Sunday April 4, 2010

ii)  Wickham Summer Festival – Thursday August 5 to Sunday August 8, 2010

Our new websites will be up-and-running shortly and we’ll email you again soon with news of the first artists booked but, as a ‘taster’, we can say that Kathryn Tickell; Show of Hands; Feast of Fiddles; Martin Simpson; Mawkin Causley; Isambarde and Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley are already confirmed for Easter while Eliza Carthy; Shooglenifty; Show of Hands (again); The Peatbog Faeries and The Men They Couldn’t Hang are among the first artists pencilled-in for Wickham (with some very big names to follow).

‘Earlybird’ Season Tickets Now On Sale

By popular request we’re putting ‘earlybird’ weekend season tickets on sale now at very attractive bargain prices for those who buy before the end of October.

You can save up to £15 on an adult weekend ticket for Easter and up to £35 on an adult weekend ticket for Wickham plus, if you book for both festivals before the end of October, you can save an extra £5 on each adult ticket for both of them!

Please find a Tickets Booking Form attached.  Just download, fill it in and post it with a cheque to The Festivals Office, 51 Russell Street, Gosport, Hampshire PO12 3JD.

We always welcome your feedback on our festivals, and your suggestions for artists we should book next year, so if you’ve any ideas or comments do please email us at eastfest@talk21.com

Thank you for your support.  We hope to see you again in 2010.

Best wishes,
The Hampshire Festivals Team