ValeFest Christmas Showcase 2009!
Music at Your Local 2009!
An 8-week season of FREE, family friendly pub concerts across the Vale of Belvoir...
Pictures courtesy Lizzie Hewitt, Max Ewen & Mitch de Faria © 2009
Winterval 2009
The ValeFest Winterval photo competition, kindly run by the Melton Times and Grantham Journal newspapers, has been won by Mike Hainey of Barkestone le Vale in the Vale of Belvoir.
Mike Hainey's prize-winning picture of the Oriole New Orleans Jazz Band in Melton Town Centre during ValeFest Winterval 2009. Mike Hainey is presented with a poster image of his winning photo by ValeFest founder, Mitch de Faria, at community radio station 103 The Eye FM in Melton Mowbray.
ValeFest Launch 2008
Winterval 2009
“It was a pleasure to attend the ValeFest Winterval Jazz Parade and Hootenanny! The school children with their larger than life-sized puppets literally stopped the marketplace and had everyone reaching for their camera phones.
“As for the Hootenanny, to have one of the UK's premier Kinks tribute bands seamlessly followed by a traditional Morris performance might be thought a stretch too far. But it worked and worked well. The audience supported every act and the climax, traditional African drumming performed by children from a local school, was supported enthusiastically by the whole crowd.
“Everyone involved deserves to be so proud. Truly an example to us all. Simply wonderful.”
Winner of the Winterval Photo Competition Announced!“As for the Hootenanny, to have one of the UK's premier Kinks tribute bands seamlessly followed by a traditional Morris performance might be thought a stretch too far. But it worked and worked well. The audience supported every act and the climax, traditional African drumming performed by children from a local school, was supported enthusiastically by the whole crowd.
“Everyone involved deserves to be so proud. Truly an example to us all. Simply wonderful.”
The ValeFest Winterval photo competition, kindly run by the Melton Times and Grantham Journal newspapers, has been won by Mike Hainey of Barkestone le Vale in the Vale of Belvoir.
ValeFest Launch 2008
"We like eating and we like drinking even more. So playing at the ValeFest launch was a gift from paradise!"
Bridget Such, Fanny Power & the Mickey Money Boys
Bridget Such, Fanny Power & the Mickey Money Boys
