| Where: | Formerly Eastbourne, Sussex starting at the Pier |
| When: | Formerly Saturday near August 1st (often late July) |
| Time: | Formerly 12 noon parade, 5.30 Lammas Ritual |
Lammas is an ancient celebration connected with the harvest and it falls on August 1st. Eastbourne Lammas festival was a modern celebration on a weekend near to Lammas with a parade along the seafront which included dancers, morris men, drummers and musicians. The Lammas ritual ended the afternoon symbolising the life of John Barleycorn (the corn spirit and inspiration for the ancient folksong of the same name) and was performed by Hunters Moon Morris. There were also ceilidh events in the evening and further music & dance events during the Sunday. Look out for the traditional Lammas Loaf!
Helpful Hints
A new Lammas Festival is being planned for 2025- I’ll amend this post when more information becomes available about time, date and location of the new event. Currently lapsed for several years, it’ll be a welcome return to the calendar.
Click here for the new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556073604832
Money collected was donated to the RNLI so give generously! Members of the public were encouraged to join in the parade and to wear fancy dress or flowers if they wished.
There were plenty of trade stalls on the Western Lawns with a wide range of products, many with ethically produced goods.
Click here for the old event website : http://www.lammasfest.org/
ande here for the old Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/groups/45707716449/
Photo 1 by Bertie Bassett25 and all the others thanks to Ed Owen!
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can you advise me of the organisers email address for this years event on saturday 26th & 27th July 2014.
Kind regards
Gary
Hi Gary,
The event belonging to the festival appears to be broken today – if it isn’t up and running soon probably the best way to get in touch wil be through their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/45707716449/events/ I don’t have an email address without checking their site.I’m off on a trip in half an hour or I’d follow the link up myself! Hope you get it all sorted (they might be unaware that the site’s not working)Best wishes,
Averil
I too would like contact details for this festival to arrange having a trade stall. I have visited their main website and their FB page but cannot find any direct email or phone details!
Hi Nick,
I think your best course of action will be to leave a message on the event’s own facebook page -sorry I haven’t got any insider info for you!
Hope you manage to get through,
Averil
hi we would like to apply for a craft stall I have been on your show when linda was running it Iam selling my dog collars they are bling bling and personalised names wich does go very well but do you supply tables please I did do the fishcakes but I have had a stroke so there as can not do cooking any more thanks
Yvonne Patterson
Hi Yvonne,
You’re through to calendarcustoms, not the Lammas Festival organisers. Follow this link to their Facebook page, which is how they recommend people contact them : https://www.facebook.com/groups/45707716449/
Hope you get sorted!
Averil