Live music will rock Shrewsbury
If you want to see live music in Shrewsbury this summer then there’s more than enough to excite you.
The Shrewsbury Folk Festival will take place at the West Mid Showground from August 25 to August 28 and tickets are scarce.
This year’s line-up includes Loudon Wainwright III, Eric Bibb, former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden, Sarah Jarosz, The Unthanks, Oysterband, Skipinnish, Le Vent Du Nord, Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Seth Lakeman.
Revellers will be treated when Faith, Folk and Anarchy play for the first time in 14 years, with Martyn Joseph, Steve Knightley and chart-topper Tom Robinson all lining up at the festival.
The Room for All will also be there.
It will be the 21st year the festival’s been held in Shropshire.
Husband and wife duo Alan and Sandra Surtees started the festival in Bridgnorth in 1997 and it moved to Shrewsbury nine years later.
It has four music stages and its two main stages are now called Bellstone and Pengwern, in a bow to its Shropshire heritage.
For more information on the folk festival, visit www.shrewsburyfolk festival.co.uk
On the other hand, do you want to see a celebrated and famous band but are you impatient about seeing them play in your town?
Another live music event coming to the town on August 26 is Shrewsbury Fake Festival.
The event will bring Oasis, Guns n’ Roses and U2 tribute bands to The Quarry.
Support bands from around Shropshire will be given the chance to shine on the stage too and the concert is expected to draw thousands of fans to Quarry Park between 12.30pm and 11pm.
Tickets cost between £18 and £25 for adults, £10 to £15 for children and family tickets cost between £46 and £56.50.
Prices are dependent on whether people buy an early bird, advanced or on-the-door ticket.
There will be an entertainment zone outside the marquee, which is a fenced area for the entertainment stands to keep everyone at the festival safe, fed and watered. Alcohol, food and drinks cannot be brought into the festival.
There will be a licensed bar inside the marquee and drink tokens can be bought to exchange at the bar.
Bags will be checked and everyone admitted will be searched on entry.
Tickets are replaced with wristbands so people can come and go however often they like during the festival.
Admission is free for children up to the age of nine. For more information, and to buy tickets in advance, visit www.fakefestivals.co.uk/2017/Shrewsbury
All children aged up to nine-years-old enter for free and don’t need a ticket to get in.
