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Southdowns Music Festival Southdowns Music Festival in Bognor Regis. Festival dates: Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September 2026.

News from our friends 🙂For those in the south, Steve Knightley & The Winter Yards Band  play Komedia in Brighton on Wedn...
23/10/2026

News from our friends 🙂

For those in the south, Steve Knightley & The Winter Yards Band play Komedia in Brighton on Wednesday 11th November.

Support comes from the brilliant Megan Henwood.

Steve Knightly is a highly acclaimed, and multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, with a prominent position in the folk/acoustic and roots music scene. He says, “𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘠𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 – 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.”

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 20 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴” - Mark Radcliffe, 6Music

Blending poetic songwriting with a cinematic acoustic sound, the band’s ‘folk noir’ style has won over audiences across the UK.
Featuring David Delarre, John Parker and Evan Carson, the show combines songs from the Winter Yards album with powerful new material written on the road – stories of landscape, community and the changing world around us.

“𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴” – Peter Gabriel

𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱 offers refreshing variations of nu-folk with a fabulous voice and fire in her belly.
“𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥” – The Guardian
“𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘪 𝘔𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘬 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 – 𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦.” – Direct Current, Chicago

Tickets are available here:
https://bit.ly/MeltingVinylTickets

This is a Melting Vinyl show.

17/09/2026
Can you spot yourself?The official photographs for the 2026 festival are now available to purchase online - with huge th...
16/09/2026

Can you spot yourself?

The official photographs for the 2026 festival are now available to purchase online - with huge thanks to Lyn and Trev Sports for the wonderful images.

You can purchase them via this link:
https://lynandtrevsports.shootproof.com/gallery/8ff29e44-969d-4213-8310-314cdd65185e
Or visit the news section of our website for the link.

And here's a note from Roger Nash, the chairman of the festival:

Thousands of people poured into Bognor Regis last weekend to enjoy some brilliant live music, dance and hearty shanty singing.

Organised by the team from Southdowns Music Festival, the 13th such festival saw great performances from the Friday headliners, Megson & Phil B**r at Venue 24 on the Pier, plus on Saturday, the brilliant Roving Crows and the sensational Sorrel Nation Band joined us. On Sunday evening, the long awaited and emotional return of local lad Ed Goodale, who supported the hugely entertaining 3 Daft Monkeys (there`s four of them!).

The ever popular Ukulele Festival under marquee in Waterloo Square was rammed most of the time with jams and live performances from The Mighty Lemons, Only Ukes, Sputnick Weazel and many others.

There were some great dance displays from festival regulars Knickerbocker Glory, Elmer English and Chameleon Dance which crowds in the town centre really warmed to.

No fewer than eleven shanty groups sang in various town centre venues on Saturday and Sunday to much acclaim, with many people joining in with well known sea songs.

Seven different venues were used for the festival including the RAFA Club, The Lamb, The Alex, Bonito Lounge, The William Hardwicke, Venue 24 and the Green Dragon which hosted the hugely successful Rox/ Bognorphenia stage which proved a real hit.

Chairman of the Festival Committee, Roger Nash said, “Once again we’ve proved that if you put the right things on, people will support you, and they did that in spades with packed out venues and a real buzz around the town. We hope to be back in 2027 and using the new Alexandra Arts Centre which opens in Spring next year.”

12/09/2026

Southdowns Music Festival 2026 - it's been a great day but sadly the Drone/Light Show scheduled for 8.40pm tonight Sat 12 Sept has had to be concelled due to gusting winds. We will try to reschedule this as soon as possible

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