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Apple Festival

Apple Festival 2012 – Saturday 20th October and Sunday 21st October 2012

Tickets are now available to purchase online from Ticketsource.

Tickets are available at £10 per person, per day if purchased in advance, or £12 on the door. Children aged under 12 on 20th October 2012 are admitted free of charge.

Details including the live music line up will be posted here closer to the event. In the meantime, please see the details below of our 2011 festival for a flavour of what to expect in 2012.


Apple Festival 2011 – 15-16 October 2011 - 10am to 5pm

Music, dance, fun and feasting in celebration of English apples

Our annual Apple Festival is one of the most popular events in Sussex, attended by thousands of people each year. There are live bands, morris dancing, a cider bar, hot food, stalls selling apples and many different kinds of local produce, and of course the theme throughout is the celebration of apples.

The 2011 Festival will be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th October 2011.

Apples and Pears, local food fair, apple pressing demonstrations, puppet show, cider bars, hot and cold food, funfair and morris dancers.

2 live music stages.

PLEASE NOTE ALL TIMINGS ARE APPROXIMATE


Apple Festival Leaflet

Full Programme

We are updating this page regularly, so be sure to come back in a few days to see what else we have added.

Bands

Saturday

Main Stage

12noon Rachel Dadd
1pm Simon Panrucker
2pm Sneaky Low Five
3pm Pollito Boogaloo
4pm Captain Slackship's Mezzanine Allstars

The Pip Inn

12noon Pocket Size
1pm Laura Hockenhull & Dan Stewart
2pm Jamie Morgan & Rabbit Foot
3pm The Cajun Dawgs
4pm The Spectones

Sunday

Main Stage

12noon Lost Organ Unit
1pm Derriere
2pm John Hegley
3pm King Porter Stomp
4pm Curst Sons

The Pip Inn

12noon Hatful of Rain
1pm Second Hand String Band
2pm Early Bird Special
3pm Bad Bad Whiskey
4pm Chicken Shed Zeppelin

Morris Dancers

There will be Morris Dancing displays in two areas, outside the Farm Shop, and by the Milking Parlour. Full programme as follows:

Saturday

By Milking Parlour

1.30pm Hunters Moon
2.30pm Sun Oak Clog
4pm Hunters Moon

Outside Farm Shop, parallel to A27

11.30am Sun Oak Clog
12.30pm Hunters Moon
4pm Sun Oak Clog

Sunday

By Milking Parlour

11.30am Magog
12.30pm Royal Sovereign
1.30pm Oojah Kappivvy
4pm Old Star

Outside Farm Shop, parallel to A27

12 noon Oojah Kappivvy
1pm Magog
2pm Old Star
4pm Royal Sovereign

For Children

Wishworks Puppet Theatre, with a full programme of shows on both days.
Magical and Mythical Children's Activity Workshop: lots of apple-related crafty things to make (small charge for this)
And of course, the Harris Bros Fun Fair, with a merry-go-round and other traditional fairground rides from 100 years ago

Open Farm Activities

There will be plenty of fun activities on the Open Farm. Details to be confirmed shortly. The cows will be milked from 3.15pm onwards.

Food Stalls

Lots of different food stalls to choose from:

Middle Farm Barbecue: homemade beef burgers, pork and apple burgers, pork and cider sausages.
Barbecue Shack (British Barbecue Champions 2011): Ribs, burritos, authentic pit smoked meats.
French Revolution: sweet and savoury crepes.
Veggie Love Bites: veggie and vegan falafels and burgers with dressings.
Boudoir Bliss: Moroccan fusion food and blissful drinks.
MUU Japanese food.
Michael the pizza man: freshly made pizzas.
The Tea Set: mobile ice cream bicycle.
Pig in a Bun: fantastic burgers, sausages and bacon rolls.
Somerset Cider Brandy tombola marquee.

Tickets

  • £12 for one day
  • £20 for both days
  • No charge for under 12's

Please note: No dogs permitted except assistance dogs.

How to get there

Middle Farm is situated on the A27, 4 miles east of Lewes and 7 miles west of Eastbourne, between the turnings to Ripe and Selmeston

We are on a National Cycle Route 2 (details www.sustrans.org.uk)

The nearest railway station is 2 miles away at Glynde, on the Lewes to Eastbourne line.

Bus No. 125 starts at Barcombe and passes us via Lewes, Monday to Friday. Bus No. 25 starts at Lewes and passes Middle Farm , en route to Alfriston, on Saturdays only (details from www.traveline.org.uk).

The Cuckmere Community Bus will be running two shuttle services for the Apple Festival:

  • From Lewes Station starting at 10.35am (the 10.35 bus will be on Saturday only), 10.50am, 11.05am and 11.20am and then every 15 minutes.
  • From Polegate Station starting at 10.50am, 11.10am and 11.30am and then every 20 minutes.

The cost for the Cuckmere Community Bus will be £3 return.
Full timetable is at www.cuckmerebus.freeuk.com/apple11.htm

The Big Lemon bus will be running a shuttle service from Brighton Old Steine starting at 11.30am and then hourly until 3.30pm. The bus will be stopping at Elm Grove, Lewes Road Bus Garage, The Avenue, Sussex University A27 and Kingston Roundabout. The cost for The Big Lemon bus will be £6 return.

The return bus times will be displayed at Middle Farm. The later return buses will be busy so please plan your return journey.

Links

Alphabetical list of links to the websites of the bands, morris dancers and other performers appearing at the 2011 Apple Festival:

Bands

Morris Dancers

Others