East Cowes Festival

East Cowes Festival 🎉 East Cowes Festival
📍 Esplanade
📅 6th – 8th August
🎟️ Free entry
Live music • Family fun • Local food & drink
Bring your own chair or a picnic blanket!

Organised by East Cowes Town Council's Events Committee

20/08/2026

East Cowes Festival 2026❤️

20/08/2026

🎉 East Cowes Festival 2026 🎉

What a fantastic weekend! We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who made this year's East Cowes Festival such a success.

Thank you to our performers, stallholders, sponsors, volunteers, community groups, local businesses, and everyone who came along to support and enjoy the event. Your enthusiasm, hard work and community spirit helped create a truly memorable festival.

We're proud to be part of such a vibrant and supportive community. We hope you enjoy this highlights video and relive some of the wonderful moments from the weekend.

Thank you, East Cowes, for making it so special. ❤️

08/08/2026

It’s the final day, and we’re going to make it our best.
Music starts at 12.30 today, with Brighstone Barnacles kicking things off, followed by Razor Jake at 1.30. Steve Love at 2.30.
We’re being joined by moonshine Morris Dancers at 3.30.

Main stage kicks off at 4.30 with Knucklehead
6.00 The Anywhens
7.30 Second Time Around
9.00 Wight Hot Pipes take us out with a bang

We have the funfair here, lots of stalls, food available at Shoreside Cafe and drinks available from the bar area Wight Distillery, Mermaid Gin and Wight Knuckle Brewery.

Let’s finish up with a bang
See you there

08/08/2026

It’s not every day you have a giant caterpillar in East Cowes

08/08/2026

Fantastic Friday Night at East Cowes Festival, some great music and great community feel. Thank you East Cowes Community, you never let us down.

06/08/2026

🚗 EAST COWES FESTIVAL – PARKING INFORMATION 🚗

We’re expecting East Cowes to be very busy during the festival, so please plan your journey in advance.

Suggested parking areas include:

📍 Wells Road
📍 Maresfield Road Long Stay Car Park
📍 Esplanade Road

Please park legally and responsibly, and be respectful of local residents by not blocking driveways, entrances or residential parking areas.

⚠️ Important for Friday 7 August:
A road closure will be in place between 4pm and midnight for the Cowes fireworks. This closure is organised separately and is not connected with the East Cowes Festival, but it may affect traffic and parking around the town.

Where possible, please consider:

🚌 Travelling by bus
🚶 Walking to the festival
🚕 Sharing lifts or using a taxi

Allow extra time for your journey and please follow any temporary road signs or instructions from marshals.

Thank you for helping us keep East Cowes moving and for supporting our local residents.

🎶 We look forward to seeing you at the festival!

🚨🔥 1 DAY TO GO! 🔥🚨East Cowes… this is your final warning!East Cowes Festival 2026 starts TOMORROW! 🎉After months of plan...
05/08/2026

🚨🔥 1 DAY TO GO! 🔥🚨

East Cowes… this is your final warning!

East Cowes Festival 2026 starts TOMORROW! 🎉

After months of planning, organising, chasing, building, booking, sharing, posting, sorting, and probably a little bit of controlled chaos… we are nearly there.

From Thursday 6th to Saturday 8th August, East Cowes comes alive with three days of live music, local talent, family fun, community spirit, shanties, dancing, fireworks, festival atmosphere, and a proper waterfront celebration.

We’ve got a brilliant line-up across the festival including:

🎶 Maya
🎸 The Audio Ghosts
💃 Creationz Dance Academy
🎉 East Cowes Carnival Crew
⚓ East Cowes Shanty
🎤 The Signalmen
🔥 Kindred Found
🎸 Kucklehead
🎶 The Anywhens
🙌 2nd Time Around
🎉 Wight Hot Pipes
…and more!

There will be music, dancing, singing, laughing, clapping, cheering, and quite possibly some shanty-related nonsense along the way.

🎆 Friday night fireworks
🎶 Live music across the weekend
🍻 Festival vibes by the waterfront
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 A free community event for everyone
🙌 A massive celebration for East Cowes

📅 Thursday 6th – Saturday 8th August 2026
📍 East Cowes Festival
🎟️ Free entry

Bring your friends. Bring the family. Bring your dancing shoes. Bring your singing voice. Bring your best East Cowes energy. Don't forget your chairs!

Tomorrow we start something special.

East Cowes Festival 2026… LET’S DO THIS! 🔥🎶🙌

Shout out to our newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!Michael Ward, julian warner, Anna Max
05/08/2026

Shout out to our newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Michael Ward, julian warner, Anna Max

We’re getting there, just the bars to arrive and the stage tomorrow morning. Are you excited yet?
05/08/2026

We’re getting there, just the bars to arrive and the stage tomorrow morning. Are you excited yet?

05/08/2026

East Cowes Carnival at the East Cowes Festival!

Join us for a fun-filled afternoon of FREE family activities on the seafront!

11am – 2pm: Craft Activities - Make your own:
🏴‍☠️ Sailor or pirate hats
👑 Foam crowns
⛵️ Create a recycled boat

2.30 - 3pm Paddling Pool Boat Competition
• Bring your homemade boat and join the fun
• Watch the boats float in our paddling pool
• Prizes and certificates for:
⭐ Most Creative Boat
♻️ Most Ingenious Use of Plastic
🌊 Best Floating Boat

👑 Meet the Carnival Royalty
• Photo opportunities with our Carnival Royalty
• Walkarounds and community engagement

🔎 Sea-Themed Treasure Hunt
• Follow the clues and enjoy a family adventure around the festival area

🎪 Visit our East Cowes Carnival gazebo
• Find out about upcoming events
• Meet the team
• Learn how you can get involved

📱🎉 We’re even providing **free phone charging** so you can keep snapping photos and capturing all the special memories from East Cowes Festival!

Also see our Royalty perform the carnival dance routines at 5pm on the Friday night

✨ Come along, get creative, and enjoy a FREE family-friendly activity at the East Cowes Festival with East Cowes Carnival day
East Cowes Town Council
East Cowes Carnival Parade

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