PRESS RELEASE
Mint
Street Music Festival 2017 is taking place on Saturday 15th of July,
11am to 7:30pm. This FREE event combines seriously good live music with a
relaxed and welcoming atmosphere, in a lovely park just 3 minutes from Borough
Tube.
There’s
a lot to love about this festival, which got a 100% satisfaction rating from
the audience last year*. Reviewers
enjoyed “Music and multi-culture” “relaxed and
welcoming atmosphere”, “Hanging out and enjoying different music” “Live music,
dancing, atmosphere, food – everything”.
This year the line-up includes Nkomba, Norrell & the Dub
Factory, Jaelee Small, From The Cave, The Hatonauts, Kalima Project and the World Wide Welshman &
Beyond, plus choirs and dance displays from the internationally acclaimed Los
Romberos Latin American dance group, Pioneer Dance and the Silverfit
Cheerleaders. Children can join in with acts including Boppin’ Bunnies and
Diddi Dance.
Mint Street Music Festival will also be supporting One Less Bottle this year. #OneLess is a rapidly growing movement of pioneering and progressive individuals, communities, businesses, NGOs and policymakers, collaboratively striving to reduce the amount of single-use plastic water bottles entering the ocean from the city of London.
Visitors who bring a refillable bottle, receive free water refills.
Mint Street Music Festival will also be supporting One Less Bottle this year. #OneLess is a rapidly growing movement of pioneering and progressive individuals, communities, businesses, NGOs and policymakers, collaboratively striving to reduce the amount of single-use plastic water bottles entering the ocean from the city of London.
Visitors who bring a refillable bottle, receive free water refills.
Volunteer
opportunities include stewarding, videoing, catering and more. For more
information about volunteering or sponsorship, email mintstreetmusicfestival@gmail.com.
For
updates and community arts workshops in the run-up, see the festival’s website
and social media:
*Of
78 randomly surveyed audience members, 57 strongly agreed and 21 agreed that “I
have enjoyed my time at the festival”.
Ends
Notes to editors:
1.
The
festival takes place in Mint Street Park, off Southwark Bridge Road/Marshalsea
Road, Southwark, London SE1 0EY. It’s 3
minutes walk from Borough Station on the Northern Line and is on the following
bus routes: 35, 40, 133, 343, C10 and 344.
2.
The
festival will be taking place for the fourth time in 2017.
3.
Festival
funding for 2017 has so far been raised from Southwark Council Neighbourhood
Fund, United St Saviour’s Charity and Hadston Ltd.
4.
For
more information or images email mintstreetmusicfestival@gmail.com.
