Mitcheldean Festival

On Thursday 23rd July between 6-8pm we will be holding an outdoor Folk Club session at Lea Bailey Light Railway on the edge of the Forest of Dean just 3 miles from Mitcheldean. The Lea Bailey Light Railway Society has preserved a section of narrow gauge mining railway along with locomotives and wagons on the site of a former gold and iron mine, which itself occupies the trackbed of the former Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway.

Limited seating will be available on a selection of wagons parked on the track but you may wish to bring your own folding chairs or a picnic blanket. Please note that there are no indoor toilet facilities available but there are plenty of secluded locations screened by bushes should you wish to answer a call of nature!

Optional themes for songs and poetry include mining, industry, railways, and the Forest of Dean.

• Directions to Lea Bailey Light Railway

Join us on our Facebook page and Zoom for Virtually Mitcheldean Festival 2020 on July 18th from mid-day to 11pm. Here’s what we have planned. (Invitations to Zoom sessions will be posted nearer the time.)

Live on Facebook:

12:00-12:30 – Peter Vadiveloo (live from Melbourne)

12:30-1:00 – The Shaughnessy Brothers

1:00-1:30 – Jenny Shaw

1:30-2:00 – ReBil

2:00-3:00 – Young Poets’ Competition

Live on Zoom:

3:00-5:00 – Festival Ceilidh

Streaming on Facebook:

3:00-6:00 – video contributions from Strannik, Reivers’ Gallows, Nightingales Watch, Ged Wilson, Kev Minney and more

Live on Facebook:

6:00-6:30 – Tarion

6:30-7:00 – Anna my Charlotte

7:00-7:30 – Lucy Jarrett

7:30-8:00 – Bernard Hoskins

8:00-8:30 – Pauline Valance

8:30-9:00 – Rob Haligan

Live on Zoom

9:00-late – Mitcheldean Folk Club singers night (all welcome)