By Jonathan White
Thousands of people enjoyed a range of live shows during another successful Nantwich “Words and Music Festival”.
The 16th annual festival took place across different venues, ending on Sunday night with headliners Ocean Colour Scene at Nantwich Civic Hall.
October sees the return of Nantwich’s popular Words and Music Festival, with massive names like Ocean Colour Scene, Rumer and PP Arnold performing live.
The event, which runs from October 9-15 inclusive, has been bringing household names from music and poetry to the town since 2008
The Beautiful South’s co-founder Dave Hemingway’s is bringing his new band “Sunbirds” to play at the Nantwich Words & Music Festival.
The group will be performing at Nantwich Town Football Club on Monday October 9 as part of the week-long programme of events during the festival.
Organisers of Nantwich’s annual Words and Music Festival have vowed to stage something a little differently this year.
The coronavirus pandemic means the usual week-long festival of packed live performances across dozens of venues in October cannot go ahead.
Well-known environmental journalist and author Patrick Barkham will be appearing in Nantwich during the Words and Music Festival.
Barkham will be in Nantwich to talk about his recent book “Islander”.
South Cheshire singer Megan Lee will be wowing the crowds when she performs at Oddfellows Arms in Nantwich during this week’s Words and Music Festival.
Megan, who recently released an album with words and music festival director Nigel Stonier, is an acclaimed singer known throughout Cheshire and the North West.
The 11th Nantwich Words and Music Festival was launched to a packed room of performers, volunteers and guests at Nantwich Civic Hall last night.
Guests were treated to singing by the talented Weaver Primary youngsters with organiser Nigel Stonier on the guitar.
Cheshire singer, songwriter and musician Tom Seals is among the headlining acts for this year’s Words & Music Festival with his band CC Smugglers.
Tom, from Shavington, who attended Ruskin High School in Crewe, made his name as a musician with The Tom Seals Band, where he supported the Bedfordshire band CC Smugglers and later joined them.
A Nantwich woman has won the Words & Music Festival’s first songwriting competition.
Abbie Frances scooped top prize and along with second and third place, she performed at The Crown Hotel in Nantwich on the final night of the week-long festival.
The tenth Words and Music Festival in Nantwich is hitting all the right notes with fans, say organisers.
The week-long festival has pulled in crowds to eight venues around the town, with tickets still available for some shows.
By Jonathan White
Talented Nantwich musician Tim Lee has launched his latest album at an intimate concert in Cheshire.
Tim performed his new work “And into the Woods” to an appreciative audience at ‘The Electric Church’ independent record store and coffee shop in Winsford.
Nantwich Words & Music Festival is marking its tenth year by launching an anniversary poetry anthology.
Organisers say the anthology will feature a collection of poems submitted to the festival’s popular poetry competition in the past decade, judged by renown poets like Kim Moore (pictured).
Organisers of the Nantwich Words & Music Festival are to stage the event’s first songwriting competition to mark its tenth year.
And the contest will be judged by industry experts, including BBC Radio 6 Music’s Early Breakfast Show host Chris Hawkins (pictured).
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