Beccles Food & Drink Festival Day 2025
The details of the Festival Day are nearing completion.
The final Grazing Trail is now available as a pdf download!
The full list of stallholders is now ready and can be seen below.
The schedule of Music acts is now complete and they will be playing in 2 new locations, one outside the Kings Head entrance and one in Exchange Square opposite Twyfords Cafe. Descriptions of the acts can be found below. We have new acts and returning musicians.
The Children’s entertainment can be found behind the church, details of timings are found below.
This year the Community Rail Partnership are once again offering special reduced fares on trains running from both Ipswich and Lowestoft to the Festival. Click on image to book.
During the festival a number of local businesses have “Special Offers”! These can be found by clicking on the image.
If you have any questions on the day please visit our helpful “Information Point” located in Exchange Square opposite Twyfords Cafe.
The Grazing Trail below shows you where the stalls and other activities are happening.
The Stallholders List shows who is attending this year
The Entertainment shows the timings for our Children’s activities.
The Music Schedule indicates the acts, locations and timings.
The Event Map shows the locations of the Festival on a street map of Beccles
2025 Stallholders List
Find below a current list of this year’s stalls! Symbols: 
= Hot food 
= Vegetarian 
= Vegan 
= Gluten Free
Click on Company name to go to online presence.
STALL: 11
COMPANY: Ailsa’s Country Cream Fudge
PRODUCTS: Home Made Fresh Cream & Vegan Fudge
STALL: 37
COMPANY: daily grind coffee
PRODUCTS: Coffee
STALL: 40
COMPANY: east coast college
PRODUCTS:
STALL: 48
COMPANY: yellow sun
PRODUCTS: Olives
Children's Entertainment
Face Painter 10am - 16:00
Punch and Judy Shows Timing
TIME: 11am
TIME: 12pm
TIME: 1:30pm
TIME: 2:30pm
Music Acts Schedule 2025
Music Acts Schedule 2025
Location: Exchange Square
10:00 am Tin River
11:40 am Rumpus Ukulele
12:30 pm Silver Linings
1:20 pm Generation Gap
2:10 pm Dorothy’s Dog Busking Band
3:00 pm Pop Club Choir
Location: New Market
10:15 am Greg Hall
11:05 am McNamara Reed
11:55 am Simon Squibb
12:45 pm Ballard Bootleggers
1:35 pm Greg Powles
2:25 pm Mike Thrower
3:15 pm Guitar Siren
Music Acts Schedule 2025
Music Acts Schedule 2025
Location: Exchange Square
10:00 am Tin River
11:40 am Rumpus Ukulele
12:30 pm Silver Linings
1:20 pm Generation Gap
2:10 pm Dorothy’s Dog Busking Band
3:00 pm Pop Club Choir
Location: New Market
10:15am Greg Hall
11:05 am McNamara Reed
11:55 am Simon Squibb
12:45 pm Ballard Bootleggers
1:35 pm Greg Powles
2:25 pm Mike Thrower
3:15 pm Guitar Siren
Once again we have been granted a music license and will be able to have music at our Festival on Saturday 24th May under their Charity and Community Scheme.
With the benefit of a license, we can publish who is playing and this year we have two new locations, New Market outside the entrance to Kings Head and in Exchange Square opposite Twyfords Cafe. Here is the current schedule of performances and we hope you enjoy but please note there is always a chance of last minute changes!
Please find below a brief description of the music acts we are looking forward to perform at the 2025 Food Festival. Where applicable you can go to their online details by clicking on the name.
Tin River
Tin River are favourites at local folk clubs, festivals, sessions and pub gigs and comprise Skip Shipley (melodeon and vocals), Mim Barnes (whistles and vocals) and Marya Parker (guitar and vocals). They are musical magpies picking up tunes and songs from a wide variety of sources and deliver them either acappella or with accompaniment, making for an interested and varied repertoire. Based in the Waveney Valley area, they’ve been playing together and separately for over 40 years in a range of ensembles
Michael Thrower
Mike plays original songs and cover versions acoustically/semi electrically in a bluesy folk style and has been performing in public for over 10 years.
Simon Squibb
A local musician playing a variety of tunes and songs including Appalachian, bluegrass, delta blues, modern folk and folk rock
Greg Hall
A guitarist and singer / songwriter from Beccles who performs a mixture of his own original songs and covers of rock songs from the 1980’s to present day.
His original songs focus on raising awareness of men’s health risks and resilience-building techniques and can be found on all the music streaming platforms.
Greg’s single ‘Empty (Love Release Me)’ was featured by Apple Music on their ‘New in Indie’ playlist alongside well-known artists such as Florence and the Machine and Tame Impala. Two of his other releases (‘Malicious Whisper’ and ‘Koori Man’) have been played on local radio stations.
Thurlton and Norton Community Gospel Choir
The members are an eclectic mix of people from different backgrounds who share a love of singing, particularly of songs with the Gospel sound. Their repertoire, usually sung a Capella, varies from well known oldies such as Amazing Grace and Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho, to more recent songs such as Marvellous and Down in the River. The choir also enjoy learning new twists to familiar favourites.
Dorothy’s Dog Busking Band
Playing songs from some of the greatest eras of music by some of the greatest songwriters of their time. A mix of experiences and not so experienced musicians, you will find their infectious fun loving attitude to playing the music they love feeds over to the audience watching them.
Rumpus Ukulele
A large group of likeminded, young at heart people who do what they like and like what they do – “making a rumpus with ukuleles”. They strive to have fun playing ukuleles within a welcoming and social community that meets for enjoyment. Playing a repertoire of retero pop, folk, country and old time classics
Silver Linings
Silver Linings is a covers band that plays a selection of songs from the 1950s right up to the current day. They bring their own quirky style to the songs using a variety of instruments including acoustic and electric guitars and bass, mandolin, ukuleles and harmonica! The band play various gigs each year all around Norfolk and Suffolk.
Greg Powles
Greg Powles is a Lowestoft based writer, songwriter and performer. His one-man show ‘The Busker’ – about a man who spends all his spare time entertaining the passing public at a bus station – toured in 2023 and was called ‘simply incredible’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘unlike anything I have ever seen before’. Greg recently led an Arts Council-funded project that created a touring music and memories show for care homes and community dementia groups.
Inga McNamara and Phil Reed are a songwriting duo, writing songs about love, loss and redemption! Their music has been described as a hypnotic fusion of Americana, Folk and Pop.
The duo’s songs are acoustic based but they also perform together as part of The Cabin Band whose debut album Echoes is out now on Spotify, Apple etc.
The Ballard Bootleggers are a folk trio from Suffolk, performing foot stomping, fast paced, traditional ‘old time’ music from America and Europe.
Lelia – the Guitar Siren. A classical guitarist with a repertoire to leave you relaxed and reminiscing
Pop Club Choir
Pop Club Choir is a group of people who get together weekly to sing favourite pop classics, some modern hits and fabulous show tunes in a relaxed, fun and friendly atmosphere. The choir gathers in a range of locations across East Anglia under the direction of Ed Dewson who has been performing and teaching music for many years and who has sung with the likes of Robbie Williams and Westlife in a range of international locations
