Tooley’s Arts Festival underway with ten days of music, art, theatre and comedy

The festival is supported with funding from the National Lottery

A ten-day festival of music, art, theatre and comedy got underway last night at Tooley’s boatyard in Banbury.

Aligned with this weekend’s Canal Festival, Tooley’s Arts Festival 2024 is being supported with funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

This evening Glastonbury stalwarts Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip will bring their unique brand of music, comedy and performance to the dry dock turned theatre space.   Tomorrow Whiskey Moon Face return, after wowing the audience in Banbury last year.

On Sunday the dry dock will become a cinema when the Canal Festival concludes, showing a variety of rarely-seen canal documentaries from the past.

Performances continue daily through next week, including:

• Monday afternoon – a matinée performance of award-winning theatre from Alarum Productions.
• Monday evening – canal-based songs from the ever-popular female Three Idle Women.
• Wednesday evening – an Open Mic Night for local song-writers and performers .
• Thursday evening – comedy night with four comedians, compered by Trevor Lock.
• Friday – Nick Hart, an award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist, and The Norfolk Broads, a four-piece female ensemble who enjoy singing low-pitched folk songs about love, despair and dastardly boyfriends!
• Saturday – Local band Leatherat close the festival playing a special ‘unplugged’ set.

Tooley’s Arts Festival 2024 has been organised by The Village Butty, who’s Anna and Richard said: “We just want to celebrate the great art of Banbury and increase the overall jollity of the nation!”

Tickets for all events are available here.

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Published: 04/10/2024 02:41pm by Banbury FM Newsteam

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