Arundel Festival: gardens play host

Organisers are promising an amazing array of performances in the Gardens, from local young bands to seasoned professionals and performers right on the edge of big future success - and all for free.

The Jubilee Gardens this year will boast the Jubilee Main stage, The Arun Stage, face-painting (Happy Headz), children’s crafts (The Creation Station) and the Jubilee Festival Bar run by the Red Lion, who will have a range of drinks and food for you to enjoy.

The Jubilee Festival Opening is on Friday, August 19 with a range of Arundel area bands.

The line-up for the night is 4-4.45pm - Bad Luck and Trouble, authentic modernised blues/rock; 5-5.45pm - Loose Lips, bluesy rock and roll with nostalgia from the 70s;

6-6.45pm - Badge, 60s influenced indie; 7-7.45pm - Modern Ruin, an eclectic mix of rhythm filled songs and melodic numbers; 8-9.15pm - Rattlin Bone, a raggle-taggle band in a world of zombie burlesque and voodoo circus; and 9-10.30pm - Screaming Lez and the Mindbenders, rock and roll band with a punch.

In a new addition the Festival’s offering at Jubilee Gardens, to complement the

mix of music and arts on the main Jubilee stage this year, the Arun Stage will be providing a range of free entertainment for all to enjoy (Saturday, August 20 to Bank Holiday Monday, August 29).

The stage will offer acoustic acts daily, vocal workshop, guitar tuition, classical guitar, percussion workshop, karaoke, ukulele workshop, blues and ragtime, open mic and a talent competition.

Confirmed artists include: Andy Foster, Fabulous Fug Band, Bad Luck and Trouble, Emily Barden, Colin Arenstein, Joe Butt, Tom and Ash, Red Shoes, Sirens Band Acoustic, Max Fletcher, Green Feet and Sods Opera. A daily blackboard will give details.