Mellingey

24/04/2025

The Lostwithiel Gin Festival is back for 2025!

This event is organised by the Lostwithiel Business Group and following a change in the committee last year we’re delighted to be holding the event again following a break in 2024.
The date of the 2025 Gin Festival is Saturday 28th June. As usual the event will be held by the river on the Parade and on Monmouth Square, running from 11am - 9pm.

We’d like to invite you to join the event as a vendor. Alongside the Gin stalls, food vendors and Gin Bar we’ll be filling the site with an artisan market, and live music will be performed all day. The cost of a pitch is £75. We’re asking stallholders to be open 11am-5pm or later if you prefer.

We are already booking up, it will be great to see the return of many businesses from previous years, but we also have room for some new additions.

Please let me know if you have any queries or need additional information via email - [email protected]

Kind regards, Emma
On behalf of Lostwithiel Gin Festival

04/09/2024

08/09/2022

Thank you Ma’am for giving your life to our nation, rest in peace… God save the King!

20/08/2022

In the garden later.
Bit of music early evening with the fantastic Pitch Black.
7 to 9pm
See you all later.

03/08/2022

St Winnow church, from the river or the shore, very pretty & just a little further along, Lostwithiel...

21/07/2022

18/07/2022

Yup, quite probably the hottest day of the year.

Yup, we’ll be there, in our usual spot outside the community centre in Lostwithiel tonight from 5.30 - 7.30pm, cooking woodfired pizza to order.

Yup, we will be quite warm 🥵😎

So, if you want to feel delightfully cool then come and feel quietly smug that it’s one of us not you standing in front of the 450 degree fire 🔥🥵🥴😂

31/05/2022

Lostwithiel is looking lovely in the sunshine, dressed for the Jubilee. 🌞👑🇬🇧
It was great to see the high-street so busy today!

This image of our picture perfect town is available as a print or greetings card!
PM for enquiries 🥰

Lostwithiel

17/05/2022

The first of a series of posts about the musicians who will be at the Lostwithiel Gin Festival on Saturday 25th June. Entry is free, no tickets needed! Just turn up and be prepared to buy some gin. The event starts at 11am and finishes at 9pm, we recommend you come by train if you aren’t local.

Performing twice during the afternoon (3pm - 3.30pm and 3.45pm - 4.15pm) are HORSE AND HEDGES.

New to the Lostwithiel Gin Festival scene sees this renowned Blues Duo of Jeff Horsey and Gareth Hedges having been mentioned and played on BBC Radio 2 by none other than Paul Jones. They play authentic Blues and some Rock standards and not without a little well-chosen and knowledgeable banter.

Jeff has played the blues for forty years, taking time out to tour and play festivals and gigs all over Europe and the USA. He busked on Beale Street in Memphis, played dates in Europe, Louisiana, Australia and has supported and played with, artists as diverse as Robert Plant, Peter Green, Geno Washington and Screaming Lord Sutch! Now he's back with old friend Gareth Hedges resuming a partnership they started over 25 years ago.

Gareth plays a Martin acoustic guitar and sings in an authentic lived-in voice, equally at home with Blues, Jazz or Bluegrass. In the 1970's he travelled the southern states of the USA , from the Mississippi Delta to the Tennessee Hills, absorbing the music of numerous folk and blues musicians. He has spent time with Gary Davis, Son House, Doc Watson and Bill Munroe and still meets up with bluegrass ace Peter Rowan in the States.

"We both enjoy playing solo, but together have a lot more fun, reeling off our big repertoire of songs, on guitars and harmonica with plenty of our trademark harmony vocals and a lot of good humoured banter."

Check them out on Spotify! 🎶