New Festival needs your help!
Sky Rise Festival, Saturday 20th July 2024 – Longmarsh, Totnes
A brand-new music and arts festival is coming to Totnes this summer and needs people to help stewarding, putting up marquees and to go wild in the crowd!
The brainchild of veteran festival organiser, Jonathan Elliott, this is a free community event run by volunteers and takes place in the stunning location next to the river on Longmarsh.
Jonathan has been trying to put this event on for several years but has been scuppered by funding issues and lockdown. But now finally his idea is becoming a reality – “It has been such a joy meeting new people and seeing how the community has come together to make this happen.”
Music Stages
- The event has two live music stages, DJs, kids’ area, street food stalls, bar, bouncy castle and craft & info stalls. There’ll be an outdoor stage with live bands playing latin, funk, reggae, ska and also include a kid’s disco time from local Fun Bass DJ. The other indoor stage will have an eclectic mix from folk musicians and ukulele orchestra to funk, dub & soul DJ’s later in the evening.
Line-up includes: - Blowing your own Trumpet (Latin)
- Rumba Diablo (Latin)
- Instincts Take Over (Ska with horns!)
- Reo & the Novo Collective (hip-hop/soul)
- Be Water Jam (Funk, Soul, Dance, Disco)
- Falling Off A Horse (Grunge)
- Jazzient (Jazz-Rock grooves)
- Selena Mars (Celtic Folk)
- Totnes Ukulele Orchestra
- Tarn Francois (Deep blues with special guest harmonica player)
- Joel (Nursery Grimes from local rapper)
- DJ’s from Kingsbridge DJ Collective & Breath & Bass
Kids Area
There’s a huge kids’ area with art workshops, theatre sessions, storytelling, nursery grimes rapper, nature museum, Lego area, craft activities, face-painting, sun telescopes, hula hooping, limbo competition and a bouncy castle. There will also be an adventure trail and giant canoe rides delivered by local expert outdoor adventure company Canoe Adventures.
Food & Bar
A fantastic array of stalls includes food from Pizza Pirates & Blue Bell Cake Café plus crafts and information stalls from Caring Town Totnes, Stepping Stones and Transition Town. Our super friendly bar is be hosted by The Bay Horse Inn with local beer from The Albert Inn brewery.
The sky rise event is funded by South Hams District councillors, Totnes Town councillors and local business sponsors.
Get involved…
If you can volunteer an hour of your time then please contact Jonathan at jelliott@talkaction.org or call 0203 488 7010