Although the council had promised crowds of up to 15,000 people visiting July’s Eastleigh Music Festival – it has just been revealed that only 683 tickets were sold. A freedom of information request submitted by local campaigner Matthew Myatt shows even fewer tickets were sold than last years disappointing 730 and that for the second…
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Thousands flock to Eastleigh Mela
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•Brilliant sunshine teamed up with the Asian Welfare and Cultural Association yesterday to come to the rescue of Eastleigh council’s dead duck music festival as the annual Mela drew in thousands of local people. A carnival atmosphere prevailed with ethnic sounds to jig around to and stalls of ethnic food to sample – including Asian…
Dozens flock to Music Festival
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•Eastleigh council are predicting bumper crowds of up to 15,000 people will have descended on it’s controversial annual Folk Festival, Mela and open air drinkathon which is being held on Eastleigh’s recreation ground this weekend. This is despite clashing with Romsey’s annual Beggars Fair and total tickets sales of only 730 last year. Headlining this…