By Claire Faulkner
Standing on stage to introduce an evening of poetry to a packed Civic Hall, Nantwich Words and Music Festival organiser Nigel Stonier said “we care about the words”.
This love for language couldn’t have been any better demonstrated by the two poets performing that night, Mike Garry and Dr John Cooper Clarke.
Organisers of Nantwich’s Words & Music Festival predict the best Festival yet, as ticket sales rocket.
Fans of original music and literature from across the region will travel to Nantwich for the ninth annual event from October 10-16.
By Jonathan White
The 8th annual Words and Music Festival in Nantwich has been hailed another massive success.
Headline acts for the week-long festival included Barbara Dickson, Gruff Rhys, Thea Gilmore, The Christians and poet Kim Moore.
By Kirsty Rollings
Hundreds of people gathered in St Mary’s Church in Nantwich to enjoy legendary singer Barbara Dickson’s acoustic set as part of Words & Music Festival 2015.
Famous for her lead roles in West End musicals, unforgettable hit singles and as an actress, Dickson took to the stage with her pianist accompanying her, opening the set with the ever popular ‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’, much to the crowd’s delight.
By Sara Royle
Playing support to the Super Furry Animals vocalist Gruff Rhys can’t be an easy gig to agree to.
It would have been understandable if She Makes War had been apprehensive before taking the Crown Hotel ballroom stage.
Canadian Frazey Ford proved a brilliant headline act for the opening night of the Nantwich Words and Music Festival.
Nantwichnews writer Sara Royle went along to watch.
The 2015 Words and Music Festival was launched in a blaze of tasty pizza and foot-tapping tunes at Enzo last night (October 12)
The coffee shop on Nantwich town square hosted festival organisers, dignitaries, performers, local media and friends and family for the launch.
Imaginative English students were inspired to write after receiving top poetry tips from a Nantwich poet.
Nantwich Words & Music Festival volunteer Helen Kay visited the A-Level group at South Cheshire College to raise the profile of the festival’s poetry competition among young people.
Organisers of the 8th Words & Music Festival in Nantwich have lured Canadian folk singer Frazey Ford to perform live.
Frazey, who also reads poetry, will be travelling more than 4,500 miles from Vancouver for the festival in October.
By Kirsty Rollings
The line-up for the 8th Words and Music Festival in Nantwich has been unveiled – and includes star singer and actress Barbara Dickson.
She Scottish-born singer will be one of the big draws to the six-day festival in October.
Photographers have been busy capturing the stunning array of acts performing in the Nantwich Words and Music Festival.
And we’ve teamed up with them to bring you this amazing gallery of images to remember the week by.
By Kirsty Rollings
Award-winning Nantwich Coffee Shop, Enzo, hosted an acoustic set as part of 2014’s Words and Music Festival.
Pizza and other Italian dishes were being served early evening, as festival organiser Nigel Stonier, introduced the set.
By Kirsty Rollings
Ian McCulloch performed an intimate headlining event at The Crown Hotel in Nantwich as part of the Words and Music Festival, writes Kirsty Rollings.
The 80’s post-punk vocalist from Echo and the Bunneymen drew in a sell-out crowd from Nantwich and the surrounding areas.
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