Festival starts tonight!

It's here – the very best Free Festival for many a mile – the 15th Audlem Music & Arts Festival, starting tonight and running through to Bank Holiday Monday.

The bells will be ringing out from 6.45pm this evening before attention switches to The Bridge Inn for the Poetry Slam while music gets underway tonight at The Lord Combermere and the Shroppie Fly.

It's music on Friday night too in the three pubs with new talent from the likes of Lydia O'Dowd, who wowed the audience a month or so ago at the Reads concert in the village, plus great bands and performers including Callum Wright; the Jack Marshall Band; The Folkwits; Ragged Glory and Tom Seals.

Saturday sees a great day of entertainment starting with the Band of the Cheshire Constabulary outside St James Church – that will be very well worth seeing – followed by local choirs; the ever-popular Loud Mouth Women; and Audlem Voices and Gallery Singers. And that's all at St James Church!

The same day sees the opening of the Art Festival in the Methodist Hall; the Poetry Workshop with Emma Purshouse at the Wharf and Mill Shop and an amazing selection of music on the three outside stages at The Lord Combermere, the Bridge Inn and the Shroppie Fly.

There's music too in the Courtyard at 11 Cheshire Street, a new venue for Festival-goers to enjoy and on Sunday and Monday in the legendary Blues Alley.

Check out the programme for details on:
http://www.audlemfestival.com/line-up.html
It's a packed Festival with music, poetry and art to suit all tastes – and it's all free!

You can also pick up the printed programmes around the village. And do remember, it's all the advertisements in the programme from local traders and the sponsors who have made the Festival possible – plus a huge amount of work by the team of volunteers on the Festival committee who will be working their socks off for the whole of the Festival!

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