15 September 2013
Croydon Road Recreation Ground.
£5 entrance for adults. Children under 10 free.
All monies raised go to restoration of the bandstand where David Bowie compered the free festival in 1969
Festival in memory of 1969
Gates will open at 2pm; music on the bandstand 3-6pm. https://www.facebook.com/beckenham.bowie
The festival is organised by Friends of Croydon Road Recreation Ground and will celebrate and recapture the spirit of the legendary 1969 Free Festival, which was organised by the Arts Lab and featured a local resident at the time, David Bowie.
The aim is to raise funds to renovate the bandstand on Croydon Road Recreation Ground. This Late Victorian Cast Iron Bandstand has historic, social and sentimental value to all of us. The bandstand is presently in desperate need of restoration and we have made this issue our own task.
There will be arts and crafts stalls, original live music, a Bowie tribute band, food, refreshments and, like in ‘69, everybody involved is volunteering.
All money raised on the day will go solely to restoring the bandstand.