Shildon Town Council is to discuss proposals to hold an outdoor live music festival in the town.
A promotions company, which currently provides events at the Civic Hall, has approached the council with the idea of staging the festival in Hackworth Park in 2014 – utilising the bankside behind the Civic Hall as a form of natural amphitheatre.
The Town Council would be offered the sole trading rights for the sale of alcoholic drinks at the festival.
Town Clerk at Shildon Town Council, Mick Waterson, stated, “Quite obviously the development of the festival project will require a great deal of hard work by the promoter and all the parties involved in the project to address all the issues arising from an event of this nature, and therefore, at this early stage, it is necessary to determine whether or not the Town Council is supportive of such an event to prevent any unnecessary work being undertaken.”
Shildon & District's local community newspaper.





