the kids and live music and a beer tent for the adults. The 26th of the month is August bank holiday Monday and what better way to celebrate than at the
Newlyn Fish Festival, Cornwall’s annual celebration of all things fishy? There will be music, cooking demos, a fish auction, the Cornish Fishmonger of the Year competition and a fishy trail for the kids. The 31st of August and 1st September see Jamie Oliver team up with ex-blur guitarist-turned-cheese-maker Alex James’s for their joint food and music festival,
The Big Feastival. Set in Alex James’s farm in the Cotswolds, The Big Feastival features a top line-up of cheffing and musical talent with Jamie Oliver, Gennaro Contaldo,
Tom Kitchin,
Simon Hulstone, Gizzi Erskine and
Jonray and Pete Sanchez gracing the cookery stage while the likes of Rizzle Kicks, Basement Jaxx, Mark Owen, The Feeling, Lianne la Havas and KT Tunstall provide the tunes. Under 12s go free for the whole weekend, providing a family-friendly atmosphere in which to kick back, tap your feet and stuff your face. We round off August’s food festivals with the
Norfolk Food and Drink Festival which runs all the way from 31st August to 6th October with hundreds of events all over the county including the North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival on 31st August and 1st September, the Brecks Food and Drink Festival from 13th-15th September and the Aylsham Food Festival from 4th-6th October along with many, many more. We seem to have ended August’s food festivals in October but hey, who’s counting? Let’s just put it down to the effect of all that sun.