Leek Arts Festival

LEEK ARTS FESTIVAL Festival set to bounce back after two years

Tickets for events in one of the Moorlands’ biggest celebrations of artistic talent are now on sale after organisers confirmed it will bounce back this May – pandemic restrictions allowing.

Leek Arts Festival has been unable to go ahead for two years in succession because of Covid-19.

But tickets for key events in the 2022 Leek Arts Festival are now on sale at The Foxlowe Arts Centre, and are also available online through the festival website.

Artists confirmed so far for this year’s Leek Arts Festival include former Fairground Attraction star Eddi Reader, surrealist comic Boothby Graffoe, parody supremo Scott Doonican - frontman of the hugely popular comedy band The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican - and Leek Arts Festival regulars Fairport Convention.

Festival chairman Phil Edmeades said: “Covid -19 forced us to cancel our plans for 2020 just a few short weeks before the start of the programme - and the festival for 2021 never even got off the ground. “We’re delighted to confirm that, subject to no new Covid disasters, Leek Arts Festival 2022 will be going ahead and that a number of major artists have already been signed to perform. “We’ve also got plenty of interest from local groups and individual artists who are keen to be involved, although there’s always room for more in our programme which will run from late April through to early June.”

Anyone wishing to put on an event for Leek Arts Festival 2022 is being asked to email full details to philedmeades@gmail.com no later than February 11, 2022, to ensure inclusion in the printed version of the programme.

Phil added: “We are aware that a small number of people who bought physical tickets for Eddi Reader, Boothby Graffoe and Fairport Convention in 2020 are still holding on to them. “These tickets will not be valid for gigs in Festival 2022 and should be returned to the point of purchase for a full refund.”

For further information go online to: www.leekartsfestival.co.uk.

Eddi Reader

Scott Doonican

Fairport Convention

Boothby Graffoe

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