Family fun is high on the agenda for this year’s Macclesfield Barnaby Festival, taking place in the town centre on 17-19 June. A reinvention of the centuries-old Maxonian tradition of celebrating St Barnabas’ Feast day, Barnaby is a new festival of arts, culture and fun.
Join us for the colourful and vibrant street parade on Saturday morning, charting 750 years of Macclesfield’s history, which finishes on the lawns of Christ Church where the Barnaby Fete will keep little ones busy with a beach, a barbeque and lots of pirate fun. Older children might prefer the Great Barnaby Treasure Hunt or Football Skills coaching on the Sunday. Or they could search out the pianos placed on street corners, just waiting to be played. Circus skills workshops, strolling players and street performers will provide entertainment for everyone on Sunday afternoon.
And there’s plenty for the grown-ups to enjoy too, including jazz, blues and classical music, a Comedy Club, a Poetry Cabaret, oodles of open studios and art exhibition spaces, a touring production of ‘Piaf – the Songs’ and a new Maxonian opera to boot.
Macclesfield Barnaby Festival takes place in the town centre on 17-19 June 2011. For more information and to order tickets visit www.barnabyfestival.org.uk.
