UPDATE: After massive success, enjoyment and rain, Wittfest 2025 is already booked for 5 July 2025 and the first 3 bands are lined up. Put it in your diaries.

Coming up this Saturday, 13 July, is Witton Gilbert’s local live music festival, the Wittfest!

It will be at the carpark of the Traveller’s Rest pub.  Doors open at 11am, and first band goes on at 1pm.

Entry is by wristband and tickets are on sale behind the bar at The Travellers Rest pub at £15 each (card or cash) or message John Nixon and Jon Reynolds on Facebook.

Here is the bands line-up for the Wittfest:

1-2pm Lightning Birds

2-4pm The Dee Tees

4-6pm Brit pack

6-8pm Mojoroller 

8-10pm Ha’waysis

Children under 16 are free, although the festival is quite crowded.

The festival raises money for Witton Gilbert’s own community group CHAD Children’s Hopes and Dreams. All of CHAD’s activities are funded through local contributions and events such as the Wittfest.

For more information contact Jon Reynolds or John Nixon via Facebook or the active Witton Gilbert page on Facebook.

Picture credit: Thanks to The Dee Tees for flyer.