The Beverley Review is delighted to reveal that the team behind the popular Beverley event (previously the Beverley Fringe Festival) is back for 2022 with a wealth of non-stop performances and family events taking place over the weekend of the 17th June 2022.
Top folk acts Trials of Cato, The Brothers Gillespie, and Iona Lane take to the stage on Friday 17th June at St Mary’s Church, and on Saturday night a special party night is planned at the Masonic Hall with the popular local band The Hessle Ceilidh Band.
Keeping to its ‘Fringe’ roots, lots of events will be free; the town will be filled with music, and pubs such as the Sun Inn and The Monks Walk will host open jamming sessions and performances, while the typically strong contingent of Morris teams will be on display dancing throughout the town.
For the first time ever a special comedy event is planned: at the popular Waffle21 Lounge and Bistro, top comedians Tom Wrigglesworth, Katie Pritchard, David Eagle (of folk trio The Young’Uns) and Silky take the stage for what will be a brilliant-and hilarious-night out on Thursday 16th June.
The organisers have delivered successful, award-winning events in place of the folk festival-up until 2020 when the event went completely online. In 2021 it was a hybrid of live and online events. Every year a local charity is involved, and at last year’s event, nearly £800 was raised for the East Yorkshire Food Bank.
Festival organiser Phil Simpson says “We are delighted to once again present a grassroots led, yet ambitious festival for our great town. The music scene we have here is fantastic all year round, and one of the aims of the event is to promote and develop that.”
Supported by local business and main sponsor Stanifords – and with help from account Cbasadofskys, 2022 looks to be its strongest year yet. With headline acts including The Trials of Cato, Iona Lane, The Brothers Gillespie and Henry Parker, organisers believe this is the year the festival will be rightly back on the national map.
A full programme of events will be released next month and will be available online including on Beverley Review.