TIME TO FEEL GOOD! PLAN YOUR FREE FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND!
FRI 19 – SAT 20 AUG
LINE UP RUNNING ORDER AND TRAVEL DETAILS ENCLOSED
The Rochdale Feel Good Festival 2016 is here.
This weekend, thousands of people are expected to head to the Greater Manchester town on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 August for the annual showcase of entertainment, food and culture. 2016 welcomes a music bill headlined by Glasgow indie-rockers The Fratellis (who are celebrating 10 years of ‘Costello Music’), rambunctious folkies Keston Cobbler’s Club, dub colossi The Resonators and many more..
Chefs and food producers including the star of BBC1’s ‘Eat Well for Less?’ Chris Bavin, Nisha Katona (Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch), Andrew Nutter, Tom McNeeney and Guo Yue host live cooking demonstrations and the festival will also include children’s shows and the popular food and drink market.
Keston Cobblers Club headline Stage 2 on Friday evening, when the festival hosts an outdoor stage on the opening night for the first time. The event includes live music across indoor venues and on Saturday the main stage sponsored by The Flying Horse Hotel.
(For more information on all food and music acts please see additional attached press release and timings below).
The main event runs from 10am until 9pm on Friday, and on Saturday until 11pm, followed by ‘Love Life’ the official festival aftershow party at The Flying Horse Hotel.
Rochdale Feel Good Festival goers should plan their journey, arrive early and allow plenty of time to get to the event, which promises to be the biggest and best in the event’s history. During the festival, parking in council car parks is free. For daytime visitors there is additional free parking at Hopwood Hall College on Saturday 20 August from 11am – 7pm.
For those travelling into Rochdale from Manchester Victoria and Oldham, Metrolink runs direct to the town centre and the Rochdale town centre stop is only a one-minute walk from the festival site. Rochdale railway station connects to Manchester and Leeds and the festival is a 10-minute walk from the station or a one-stop journey on Metrolink. Rochdale bus station is a two-minute walk from the festival.
More details on how to get to the festival, FAQs and the full line-ups are at www.rochdalefeelgoodfestival.co.uk
Council Janet Emsley, cabinet member for culture health and wellbeing at Rochdale Borough Council,said: “Car parks, taxi ranks and walking routes to the festival in the town centre will be signposted but we advise those attending to plan their arrival and return home journey in advance. The town centre is likely to be extra busy.”The event is funded by Rochdale Borough Council together with sponsorship from Rochdale Football Club, The Flying Horse Hotel, Link4Life, The Royal Toby, Metrolink, Rochdale Observer and Key 103.
For more visit www.facebook.com/feelgoodfestival or connect on twitter @FeelGoodFest
Details of council car parks can be found on the council’s website at www.rochdale.gov.uk/parking
FULL LINE UP AND APPEARANCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 19th AUGUST
*Stage 2
11am – Les Enfants Terrible’s The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie
11.30am – Can’t Dance Can
midday – Skylight Silver Circus
12.15pm – Becky Langan
12.45pm – Little Folk and That’s All Folk
2pm – Les Enfants Terrible’s The marvellous Imaginary Menagerie
2.30pm – Little Folk and That’s All Folk
4pm – Community performance from groups from Rochdale Boroughwide User Forum
5pm-9pm – Keston Cobblers Club, Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar, Maz O’Connor, Mike Kenney.
Food Stage
1pm and 3pm – Nisha Katona, food writer and owner of Manchester restaurant Mowgli,.
midday and 4pm – BBC Fusion chef Aazam Ahmad
2pm – Andrew Nutter.
Link4Life Activity Zone
Performances from Turners Dance School, Link4Life salsacise, clubacise and body combat.
Dance session from Cherwell, Oakenhoof Cloggers, zumba, Skylight Circus workshops, bike maintenance, junior circuit session and rebound trampoline.
Mecca Bingo
Comedy Night with celebrity impressionist Mike Maguire, MC Chris Tavner and comedienne Nina Gilligan
* Main Stage not open on Friday
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SATURDAY 20th AUGUST
Main stage
3pm onwards:
The Jackson Kay Band
Amy-jo Clough
Boomin
The Bright Black
The Twisted Dolls
Alex Cornish
Resonators
The Fratellis
Stage 2
11am – Hippochondriac, Whitworth Amateurs‘ Slice of Saturday Night
11.30am – Becky Langan
Noon – ComedyClub4Kids
1pm – Oakenhoof
1pm – Hippochondriac
1.30pm – M6 Youth Theatre
2pm – ComedyClub4Kids
3.30pm – Turners Dance Academy
3pm – Hippochondriac, Whitworth Amateurs‘ Slice of Saturday Night
3.30pm – Turners Dance Academy
4pm – Multicultural Arts & Media Centre
Food stage
11.30am and 3.30pm – BBC Fusion chef Aazam Ahmed and Guo Yue
12.30pm – Tom McNeeney, head chef at The Oxford pub, Healey
1.30pm and 4.30pm – Eat Well For Less star Chris Bavin
2.30pm – Andrew Nutter
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please contact:
thom@sonicpr.couk