FROME FESTIVAL 1 - 10 JULY 2022
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his year, Frome Festival will return with a full line-up from Friday July 1st to Sunday July 10th. Headliners include Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley, Andy Fairweather Low, Wilko Johnson, and the Kris Barras Band, at the Cheese & Grain. Popular vocal group Blake will appear at the Memorial Theatre on July 9th.
Food Feast
Quite possibly Frome’s favourite event of the year, the Food Feast is back on Saturday 2nd, with a great choice of delicious food and drink from local traders, live music and entertainment by the river in the Market Yard. The Frome Street Bandits will open the live music with a procession from St John’s Church at 5pm, making their way to entertain the crowds at Market Yard. The headline band Jump 66 will play, with local support, street performers, Rock Choir, comedy and more. Ever-popular performance poet Roger McGough, once a member of The Scaffold, who topped the charts in the sixties with hits like ‘Lily the Pink’, will be appearing at the Merlin Theatre. David Olusoga, the historian and TV presenter, will give the second Bob Morris lecture at the Cheese & Grain, discussing his hugely popular programme ‘A House Through Time’. Roger McGough
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