Stockport companies backing Old Town Folk Festival

Two Stockport companies are backing one of the biggest weekends in the town’s calendar.

Robinsons Brewery is one of the main sponsors for the second annual Stockport Old Town Folk Festival over the Bank Holiday weekend.

The Stockport Old Town Folk Festival runs in the town centre from Thursday, April 28, to Sunday, May 1, and is also supported by Arts Council England and the Portas Pilot Delivery Group.

And as part of the festival, Foodie Friday on April 29 is sponsored by Orbit Developments.

Last year, the four-day event attracted thousands of people to Stockport Market and the surrounding Old Town, and the organisers, Seven Miles Out, hope that this year’s lively programme of traditional and contemporary folk music, colourful morris dancing and interactive street performance will attract even more new visitors to the area.

The Folk Festival brings together all ages of the community for music and dance performance including over one 100 primary schoolchildren taking part in the traditional dance display on Thursday and over 150 morris dancers on the Sunday.

Foodie Friday, sponsored by Stockport’s biggest commercial landlord Orbit Developments, regularly attracts hundreds of people to the Market Square for street food, drink and entertainment.

This month’s event will have a folk theme with live performances from singer-songwriter Liam McClair, Chloe Jones, The Hayes Sisters and Dr Butler’s Hatstand Medicine Band.

There are activities throughout the four days – for full details go to the festival website.