Get with the festival programme

Rondino Strings

Artists and groups planning to be part of the 2023 Leek Arts Festival are being urged to get details of their events to the organisers as soon as possible to ensure inclusion in the printed programme.

Around 30,000 copies of the programme are set to be printed and distributed throughout the area in the weeks leading up to the start of the festival at the end of April. But the informative document has to be ready to go to print by early March.

Leek Arts Festival (LAF) chairman Phil Edmeades said event organisers only have a few short weeks to provide information about their plans.

He said: “To make sure your event gets into the printed programme we need all the information no later than Monday, February 13. That gives us time to get everything in order and ready for the printers to take over early the following month.

“Event information sent to us after February 13 won’t make it into the printed programme although it will still go on the LAF website with everything else.”

Details required for the LAF printed programme are as follows: Title of event; Organiser’s name and contact details; Date, time and venue; Ticket price and where tickets will be available from; A very short descriptionmaximum 30 words - of the nature of the event.

Phil added: “All these details should be emailed to me at philedmeades@gmail.com no later than February 13.”

Key events already confirmed for the 2023 Leek Arts Festival programme include MOJO award-winner and double BRIT-nominated star Rumer; the Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble; The Jake Leg Jug Band; an evening of the songs of Euan MacColl featuring Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Julie Matthews; an historical lecture by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I (or someone who looks remarkably like her); a free classical music event featuring the Rondino Strings, and an evening of prose and poetry featuring local writers and performers.

There will also be a number of special children’s events - all of which will be freeincluding storytelling sessions and a Play-In-ADay event.

More information about the LAF 2023 programme will be released as it is confirmed.

Details of many of the events already planned can be found on the LAF website at www.leekartsfestival.co.uk from where tickets can also be purchased.