CAPEL FEST
By Dave Roberts
Note: Like a lot of events, this one grows and improves, but we don’t write a feature every year. Visit our events calendar and search to see dates and venue details for this year.
The local festival is a growing
tradition. Every year there seem to be more people
and comunities who have a party just because it's
god to be alive and they want to add something to
their town.
At South West Life we're happy to
support all of them, life is good after all and
we all have something to celebrate. Some things
burst onto the scene, and others bubble along, gathering
strength as they go. We don't believe one route
is better than another, but Capel Fest is clearly
an example that when a town decides to run a festival,
and can find the handful of people it takes to make
the commitments to a good idea, something significant
will develop.
This is the 19th Capel Fest. All that
time it's been run by an incorporated body, and
it goes from strength to strength.
Capel has grown in that time and the
festival is bigger and stronger too, with 18 000
people expected in the town for Sunday 3 April.
The core of the festival is a free,
family oriented day. There's a big line up of entertainers,
including national names on the main stage. The
track record these things generate for themselves
mean that significant sponsors are able to see that
they're really supporting a whole comunity, and
the supporters are clearly out in force in Capel.
The community also has plenty of internal
support from organisations like the Lions Club,
and that makes the labour intensive festival possible.
Whatever and However it gets onto
the ground though, this is a great fun day, and
entry is free with lots of free stuff going on.
If you've got a family, a chance to spend good time
with them without breaking the bankhas to be attractive,
and this is a well run show, with something on the
ground for everyone.
It runs from 9am to 4pm, and has to
be worth a look, get down there.
April 2005
