We are just putting the finishing touches to our online booking arrangements to allow booking to begin during Monday 9th April. (Not Tuesday 9th April as you may have read in the Nailsworth News!) Please don’t queue up to try booking at a minute past midnight – we are not that sort of organisation – but we are confident that we will be up and running at some point in the day. So, if you have found booking is not yet open, do try later in the day.
Remember that we use the secure PayPal shopping cart for ticket sales – you do not share any financial information with the Nailsworth Festival when you book. You do not need a PayPal account to purchase tickets as major credit and debit cards are accepted. Of course, if you do have a PayPal account, the checkout process will be much faster.
News
Main Events for 2018 are now announced
The Nailsworth Festival Committee is now able to announce the main features of the 2018 Festival. As ever, there will be entertainment and a market in the town on Festival Saturday (19th May) and then a week of acts, talks and activities designed to appeal to all.
The Temperance Seven, on their Diamond Jubilee Tour, will headline on Festival Saturday evening. Events across the week will feature the Tippett Quartet, “Votes for women in the Cotswolds”, Richard Eyre, Withering Looks comedy theatre, latin music and much more.
But the Festival is about much more than the major events with activities, exhibitions and workshops running across the week.
There is Funky Munky Music for very young children; a Footie Fest for youngsters between 8 and 16 and ‘Riding the Bounds’ for horse riders of all ages. A number of exhibitions will be held including ‘Education in Nailsworth’ and a ‘Quilt Show with Musical Interludes’. There will also be an exhibition by the artist John Furnival, as featured in last month’s edition of Nailsworth News. Stroudwater Textiles will be opening Gigg Mill and Dunkirk Mill.
New for 2018:
Egypt Mill will be putting on a Pre-Festival Party Night with one of Gloucestershire’s liveliest bands ‘The Bridge’.
Woodchester Valley Vineyard will be offering a special tour & tasting event to celebrate Nailsworth Festival and English Wine Week.
Nailsworth Festival and Twitter
After many months when we have been unable to tweet, we have managed to regain access to our Twitter account. We will be using this increasingly in the run up to the 2018 festival to publicise the exciting events on our programme. Apologies to those who used to follow us and had given up on us.
New website
After eleven years with essentially the same website, we have decided to modernise and make it a bit more friendly for smartphone users. Inevitably, there will be some changes for users of PCs, but we have tried to keep some of the old features so that users feel at home. We hope you can find your way about and that you like the non-fussy, straightforward design of the new offering.