Back, bigger and boulder is the second annual Big Boulder Music and Arts Festival, taking place at Heeley Millennium Park on Sunday, September 8th from 12noon – 6pm.
The festival, organised by the Heeley Development Trust, in partnership with local promoters Four Rivers, builds on the success of several recent gigs at The Heeley Institute, bringing a brilliant line-up of free live music from up and coming bands and established festival favourites.
Local acts Tandem and The Hungarian Lanterns will be joined by Rita Payne, Maia, and Big Tent and the Gypsy Lantern. Former Magazine and Visage keyboardist Dave Formula will also be performing with his new band The Finks. There will also be free craft activities for children, with kite-making, woodland crafts and nature trails and environment arts collective Responsible Fishing UK will be providing stone balancing sessions, with members of the public encouraged to create seemingly impossible towers of stone.
An array of bus services more than make up for the limited car-parking spaces around the park, with the 20, 20A, 25, 25A, 43, 44 and 53 stopping at the Heeley Retail Park and the 47 and 48 allowing revelers to alight at Spencer Road. There is more info and videos of the acts on the Big Boulder facebook page (www.facebook.com/TheBigBoulder) or you can contact Bev Nunn, Events and Involvement Organiser for HDT on 0114 2500613, or at bev.n@heeleydevtrust.com