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Milnrow Calling 2022
The second Milnrow Calling
festival took place over the first
weekend of September at Milnrow
Cricket Club. Over one thousand
local people attended the daylong
celebration of live music acts,
food and fun.
I had the pleasure of being asked
to compere for the day and my first
thoughts as the day started were that it
couldn’t possibly go any better than the
previous year’s event. Milnrow Calling 2021
was for many the first time they had been
anywhere in almost 2 years as it was the
first big event after Covid restrictions
were lifted. The opposite happened and
people immediately knew what to do and
how to approach the day. It was like the
positivity and excitement had carried
over from the previous year.
On arrival there were a variety of mobile
food stands, all freshly made by local
companies. The bar was run by the
cricket club and there were a variety of
kids stalls including sweets, hair braiding,
face painting and bouncy castles.
Speaking of bouncy, the smaller of the
two stages was an inflatable dome whilst
the larger at the end of the field was a
rigid construction. The operators upped
their game this year with some superb
light shining on both stages which really
came to life at dusk!
First up and kicking the festival off, were
the ever reliable and well-loved Milnrow
Brass Band. “Mighty Milnrow” as they are
affectionally known, have been making
music since 1862 and are a championship
section band. To use an analogy, they
premiership and at one point recently
they were ranked number 20 brass band
IN THE WORLD. We are lucky to have them
and it’s great to see them at regular
points throughout n the year. What made
their performance - incredibly timed to
the strains of the 633 squadron- was the
overhead pass from a WW2 spitfire!
Next up was local singer song writer with
Leah Fisher her acoustic guitar. Despite
only being 20 years old, Leah has already
built up a reputation as one of the best
local female vocalists around.
Following on from their appearance at
last year’s event, the Frozen Duo, a couple
of Disney Princesses, banged out modern
and classic Disney songs. As well as
being extremely polished, well costumed
and with huge vocal power, what made
these two unique was their audience
interaction.
Next on the main stage were Classic
Rock Revival who relived the glory days
of classic rock from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
They are a full 8-piece band all the way
from London who knocked out classics
from genre-defining artists such as
Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC,
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boston, and Steely Dan.
After a short break it was back to the
inflatable stage for “Rochdale’s Premier
Maricahi Band “Juan Direction.” Juan
D as they are known to their friends are
actually distant cousins of the Rochdale
favourite Irish Rock band The Scattering,
and the crowd were treated to a range of
Mariachi styled classics singalongs such
as Delilah, Don’t you want me, and I Want
to Break Free.
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