Weather, food, beer and music !

We have some great food vendors with a selection of food from burgers to Caribbean street food, sweet or savoury pancakes, to all day breakfasts also vegan and vegetarian options available

Main Marquee

Friday from 4 pm – music starts at 5pm

Saturday Star in Staffs Competition 10 am- 12 am …..12 noon until 11pm music from bands

Sunday 12 noon until 11pm

La Maison du Vin Maison Marquee (Coordinator Imani Snape & Team)

Friday evening open mic

Saturday – workshops from early morning for all all ages – music from afternoon through until 11pm

Sunday- workshops from early morning – kids disco – music from afternoon through until 11pm

Beats & Feats Marquee – (Coordinator Demenus & Team)

Friday – N/A

Saturday – workshops and activities in the morning – Fashion Show afternoon – sound system – Reggae/ ska and dancehall Musical Youth

Sunday – workshops and activities in the morning – Gospel choirs in afternoon – sound sytem – reggae / 2 tone – headlining The Beat Goes Bang

Millie Bea Marquee

Friday – Back to School disco 6/7/ until 11 pm

Saturday (workshops from morning until 2pm?) 3 – 11pm Northern Soul all dayer (Coordinator Dave Thomas & Mick Oakden)

Sunday 12 – 6pm Erndor 50 Introducing Stage (Coordinator John Davis)

6.30 Jam Session until 9.30 hosted by Paul Brindley (The Loveless)

(No alcohol is permitted from outside sources in the arena)

Staffs Fest also run an optional child registration scheme which will be situated at the Staffs Fest site office at the entrance to the arena. All children remain the sole responsibility of the parent or guardian and remember Lower Drayton Farm is a working farm

We have a selection of stalls to allow you some retail therapy while you are at the festival, ethnic clothing to sweets and ice cream, jewellery to handicrafts, even some workshops and therapists

Dogs are welcome and must be kept on a lead.

There is disabled parking allocated by the gate entrance

Campers, caravans, camper vans and tipis are all welcome and there is a basic shower unit and toilets on the campsite. No open flames are permitted but fire pits, BBQs are fine, just take any ‘rubbish’ home with you and don’t light anything with a naked flame inside your tent. Candles are not permitted.

Feel free to bring your own chairs or stools to sit on if you wish, there will be a limited amount of seating plus straw bales and some benches.

Photographers and videographers will be on site throughout the festival

All tickets include optional camping Weekend tickets (£50 per adult) camping form anytime from Thursday afternoon till ‘teatime’ on Bank Holiday Monday, one camping ticket per unit requested at the same time as buying ticket, if you wish to stay longer, not a problem but you will have to arrange with Lower Draytons Farms office. However those wishing to go to and from are welcome to do so Parking will be in a separate field from the arena

All children under the age of 16 FREE however their ticket must be purchased at the same time as the accompanying adult

If you wish to upgrade your ticket at anytime please go to the Staffs Fest site office where they will be happy to oblige all major credit and debit cards are accepted

If you are going between Stafford Town Centre and Lower Drayton Farm we have a VIP deal with local taxi firm Kaminskis – £10 you can pre book or book on the day. You can choose from 8, 6 or four seater vehicles, wheelchair users are also catered for or what about booking the 8 seater ‘PARTY BUS’ Call 01785 603030

Star for Staffs final will take place between 10.30 am and 12 pm on Saturday everyone that is present will have a vote by three judges to pick the winner out of the the six contestants.

Festival programmes will be given out at the gate and merchandise stand will be at the marquee entrance, so get those limited edition T shirts when you can because once they are gone they’re gone

We are also on Twitter https://twitter.com/StaffsFest20

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/staffsfest/

and Instagram Staffs Fest

We thank you for being part of Staffs Fest we aim to be the best family friendly festival in the area with a true community spirit, run by local people