Nantwich Jazz, Blues and Music Festival is set to be a star-studded event with a record number of performers lined-up to entertain this Easter.
Festival programmes are now available online and at local outlets listing all the famous names whose stage skills will turn Nantwich into a mecca for music-lovers over Bank Holiday weekend, March 29 to April 2.
Nantwich Jazz, Blues and Music Festival organisers are pressing ahead with plans for next year’s event and hope to make it the ‘biggest and best yet’ in memory of its founder Phillip Martin.
Mr Martin, who was proprietor of The Crown Hotel, established the festival in 1996 and was well ahead with plans for Easter’s music programme when he died of a heart attack aged 65 in November.
By Jonathan White
A Christmas Tree Festival took place at St Mary’s Church in Acton near Nantwich at the weekend.
There was a grand opening on Friday with a guest appearance from Father Christmas, followed by a ‘Mingle and Jingle’ charity Christmas concert.
By Jonathan White
The sixth Audlem RNLI Festival proved a popular hit with hundreds of visitors to the Overwater Marina, between Audlem and Nantwich.
There was a Boatshare4U show and in the evening there was live entertainment from ‘ABBA Re-Bjorn’.
Villagers in Church Minshull will host a two-day ‘Minshull Madness’ festival, featuring headline soul act The Screaming Beavers.
The event, planned for September 1 and 2, kicks off with a concert by one of England’s finest soul bands at 7.30pm.
Fizz fans are in for a treat when Cheshire-based wine company stages a Fizz Club at Residence in Nantwich
The July 26 event will give fans of sparkling wine a chance to taste samples from all corners of the globe.
Communities around six Nantwich churches teamed up to produce these stunning knitted tableau pieces.
School children to grannies, Brownies and Guides to sheltered housing residents, police officers to publicans, and farmers to family practitioners have all helped produce the displays.
Organisers of Nantwich Words & Music Festival have unveiled a top line-up for the town’s tenth annual event, including a debut for poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
Other headline acts range from alternative rock band THERAPY? (pictured) to British rock quartet Tom Robinson and Band and iconic English poet Roger McGough.
Nantwich Police have hailed the 21st Nantwich Jazz Festival as a success with just seven arrests during the five-day event.
Tens of thousands packed in to the town to watch more than 100 live performances at dozens of venues.
By Jonathan White
The 21st Nantwich Jazz, Blues & Music Festival is up and running with thousands enjoying some fine performances.
Organisers expect 40,000 people to attend the festival during its five-day period April 13-17.
Nantwich Jazz, Blues and Music Festival looks set to be a massive crowd-puller as tickets for all the major shows approach sell-out.
Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on Nantwich for the annual festival, which runs from Thursday April 13 to Monday April 17.
By Jonathan White
1980s Electronica tribute band Electro 80s will perform a fund-raising concert at The Studio in Nantwich on April 13.
The gig is at the start of the five-day Nantwich Jazz, Blues & Music Festival.
Record crowds are expected to flock to the Nantwich Jazz, Blues and Music Festival which marks its 21st anniversary this Easter.
Organisers have been inundated with inquiries after unveiling the final line-up which includes performances by more than 120 bands at venues across town.
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