The Stow Festival returns! This year’s festival will run from Thursday 20 September to Sunday 23 September. We are now inviting applications from artists who would like to perform at the festival!
What is the Stow Festival?
The Stow Festival ran across four days in Walthamstow in September/October 2011. The festival featured over 35 artists performing at 19 gigs across 10 venues to over 1,500 people. It is organised by a team of volunteers who came together to form the Stow Festival Committee. The principles of the festival are:
- To showcase Walthamstow’s musical talent alongside hot new performers (over 80% of performers in 2011 had a connection to Walthamstow);
- To offer a music festival that is accessible to as many people as possible (eleven of the nineteen gigs in 2011 were free); and
- To work with local businesses to promote Walthamstow as a place to visit (we partnered with a number of restaurants and businesses in 2011).
What’s happening in 2012?
This year we are looking to build on the success of the 2011 festival to establish ourselves on the Walthamstow calendar as an annual event. We are working to ensure that there are performances in each part of E17. We want to make sure as wide a range of musical genres as possible is represented. And, we want to offer quality musical entertainment for as many people as we can in Walthamstow, including young people.
This is very much a festival organised at grassroots level. None of the organisers are paid, and we want to do everything we can to ensure that the festival is not only fun but benefits the local area.
Sounds great! How do I apply?
Applications are now open for performers for the Stow Festival 2012. It doesn’t matter if you’re aged 16 or 60, it doesn’t matter if you play classical music or you’re a grindcore/electro mash-up band, we want to hear from you.
We don’t have an application form – we want you to send us things that you think will impress us. Soundcloud page? Videos on YouTube? Reviews? Send us links. Just starting out but getting good feedback from your friends? Make a video on your mobile phone and send it to us.
A couple of ground rules:
- One application per performer.
- Don’t get your mates to send us a zillion emails telling us how great you are, it’ll only annoy us.
- The Stow Festival hearts Walthamstow. We want local talent, so tell us if you’re from this part of the world.
- The deadline is Friday 15 June.
Send your applications to thestowfestival@gmail.com. If you’d like to apply by post, drop us a line at the same email address and we’ll give you details of how to do it. We’ll take a look and get back to you after Friday 15 June.
Thanks!
The Stow Festival Committee
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