Saturday 29 March 2014

LAUNCH OF THE MAKERS MARKET MIDDLEWICH (ARCHIVED)

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THE LAUNCH OF...
Illustration: The Makers Market

 SATURDAY 29th MARCH 2014

Following on, as the Town Clerk so eloquently put it, 'seamlessly' from the popular Artisan Market, the Makers Market in Middlewich began on the 29th March and continued the tradition.

On the day, The Makers Market wrote:
It's TODAY everyone -  the launch of the Middlewich Makers Market! 
The event will have a Mothers Day twist, with over 50 of the finest food, drink, art and craft stalls, with lots of specials designed to appeal to mothers.
 To keep the little ones entertained we have face painters, portrait artists and a very talented balloon modeller. 
Cheshire folk will be performing and we are thrilled to be also joined by the cotton hot town club our fabulous vintage DJ's providing us with the best swing tunes from the 30's to early 50's,
you do not want to miss it!
Wheelock Street 10-4pm. 


STOP PRESS!
News just in from Makers Market HQ - Final trader numbers confirm that today will be the largest Middlewich Market ever!! We have over 60 stalls! Thats over 60 fabulous creatives and talented cooks, chefs and food growers. How exciting! We are also holding a competition to say thank you to our stall holders. The best dressed stall will win a certificate and a free stall at nexts months market! See you all there! I'll be on the bouncy castle or quietly bopping to the swing tunes of our Vintage DJ's. 10-4 Wheelock Street.

MAKERS MARKET WEBSITE
with music provided by

The Makers Market in Middlewich 29th March 2014   Photo: The Makers Market (Middlewich)

THE FIRST MIDDLEWICH MAKERS MARKET 29th March 2014



The first Makers Market on the 29th March was the biggest market ever held in Middlewich. Geraldine Williams took these excellent photographs showing just some of the stalls and the wide range of goods on offer.











All photographs © Geraldine Williams 2014

Wednesday 19 March 2014

GO LOCAL FOR APRIL and MAY 2014 OUT NOW!


The Spring 2014 issue of Go Local is out now and being delivered to 5800 homes and businesses throughout the town.
As well as the usual useful  information and advertisements for local retailers and services, there's a What's On Guide covering April and may as well as features on tackling household dust during your Spring cleaning and making your own hot cross buns. the ever-popular Did You Know? feature is also all present and correct as is the regular feature on Middlewich's Heritage, this time focussing on the subject of village greens. Did Middlewich once have one?

To advertise in Go Local phone (01606) 837303
The copy deadline for the June/July issue is 8th May 2014

email: go-local@ourmiddlewich.net

Saturday 15 March 2014

MIDDLEWICH ROSE FETE SELECTION 2014 (ARCHIVED)

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Participants in the 2013 Rose Fete. (Photo: Middlewich Rose Fete/Middlewich Guardian)

The Middlewich Rose Fete 2014 will be held on Saturday 14th June as part of the annual Middlewich FAB Festival, and children and young people who would like to be a part of it are invited to go along to the Community Centre on Saturday 15th March at 2pm to take part in the selection process.

More details from our friends at the



Thursday 13 March 2014

BOAR'S HEAD SATURDAY NIGHT FOLK SESSION RETURNS! (ARCHIVED)

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When it comes to music, Middlewich will always be known for its Folk connections. The fabulous Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival (now the FAB Festival) put the town on the map way back in 1990 and over the years there have been many Folk Sessions, Open Mike Nights, Poetry & Pints Nights and much more. The epicentre of folk music in Middlewich has always been the Boar's Head, birthplace of the original festival, and we're delighted to report that the original Boar's Head Saturday Night Folk Sessions are BACK as from April 12th, in the capable hands of Sean Boyle and Liz Rosenflield, ex-MFAB Director and founder of the highly successful Cheshire Folk, which runs sessions and concerts in Middlewich and further afield all the year round. Just in time for this year's festival, too! - Dave Roberts (editor)
Good times at the Boar's Head. Photo: Cheshire Folk
Liz Rosenfield writes:

Well my lovely music friends!
Who remembers the days of the really good Boars Head Session second Saturday of the month? 

If you do – didn’t we have some great nights? Fiddles, guitars, banjos, shaky eggs, bodrans, melodeons and some great tunes and songs. 
Good beer, good friends! I have some very happy memories of the sessions, staying up really late and into the early hours in fact! Thanks Liz McGuinness for not throwing us out! And we have had some great festival sessio
ns too. Well times change – people come and go and so do organisers!

I am pleased to tell you that The New Boars Head Session is going to start up again at the Boars Head, Middlewich on Saturday April 12th with a new organiser! Well two of us in fact. Sean Boyle is going to joint host with me; The New Boars Head ‘Saturday Folk’ Session. All genres welcome – but where Sean is around there will definitely be a choice of real folk songs ranging from traditional to new folk, and from Americana to sea Shanties and no one around here knows more about folk songs than Sean. Middlewich is a town with a reputation for some excellent folk music and I am keen to keep the Boars Head at the heart of it.

Do come and join us and let's bring ‘folk’ back to Middlewich! The first New Boars Head ‘Saturday Folk’ Session will take place from 8pm on the second Saturday of every month.

Thank you to Liz McGuinness for asking me! In turn I would like to invite you all to join us on April 12th for a music session to get us into the swing of things, and then every second Saturday after that.

May 10th New Boars Head ‘Saturday Folk’ Session.
June 7th ‘Saturday Folk’ and of course over the MFab festival weekend we’ll have sessions and sing-arounds for you to join in and enjoy.

I shall still be hosting my Cheshire Folk Club on first Sunday of the month – which has really developed into the most excellent singer songwriter evenings which we do love, but an alternative ‘folk session’ is definitely required!



Liz

Boars Head, Kinderton St, Middlewich, Cheshire CW10 0JE 01606 833191




Sunday 2 March 2014

MUSIC IN MIDDLEWICH: CHESHIRE FOLK CLUB AT THE WHITE BEAR



meets at The White Bear, Wheelock Street
(upstairs room)

 on the first Sunday of

EVERY month 

at 8.30pm!

Sessions hosted by

LIZ ROSENFIELD



MORE INFORMATION ON THE

Next Session:


SUNDAY 6th APRIL