Equinox Festival - The Bandstand
About This Event
Ross-on-Wye’s free world music and wellbeing event starts on Friday evening, 22 September, with a pre-festival warm up. Street food and drink from 4pm ahead of evening performances from 7pm with talented multi-instrumentalist N’famady Kouyaté‘s quintet and former BBC presenter and DJ, Andy Kershaw, with his own inimitable African, Caribbean and Latin Dance Night. Sit back under the festoon-lit stretch tent and enjoy street food and drink from Fabionis Pizzas, The Crab Shack, Vintage Bars, Fizz Origin and Kelsmor Dairy icecream.
Ease into Saturday with a hula dance taster class at 11am, before the arts and crafts market opens at 12pm. Local wellbeing choir, the Border Belles will open the show followed by Forest Thump samba at 2pm. DJ Andy Kershaw is back with his second set of the weekend at 6pm, followed by Serbian gypsy jazz quartet, Faith I Branko and international headliners, The Turbans, at 9pm.
The Wye Valley River Festival will host arts, crafts and wellbeing activities and for the little ones, drop into the pretty ‘Invitation to Play’ bell tent and get creative. Kids can learn how to make flower crowns, Indian head dresses and festival playdough pieces to take home. The Jitterbug Circus will also keep them fully entertained throughout the day with lots of circus skills activities.
Carpark: Wilton Road
Dog-friendly.
Supported by Ross-on-Wye Town Council, Rehau and part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Admission / Ticket Info:
Free - register here and also enter the Equinox winter wellbeing giveaway: https://bit.ly/455rPfC
Disabled Access:
Accessible parking is available in Wilton Road Car Park and access to the site on Caroline Symonds Gardens is through the tunnels.
Disabled Facilities:
Disabled toilets onsite (radar key required)
