Willow Festival

The Return of The Willow Festival in 2012 The Willow Festival will make a long awaited return to Peterborough in 2012. The original organisers of the festival will bring the event back to the Peterborough Embankment during the final weekend of May 2012, supported by Peterborough City Council. The Willow Festival returns after a nine year hiatus from the city’s music calendar. The original event ran between 1998 and 2003. By 2003 the festival grew to become one of the largest FREE live music festivals in Europe, with over 50,000 visitors and was the biggest live music festival in the city’s history. The 2012 festival will showcase 120 live bands from across the UK and other parts of the world. An eclectic mix of music will take place across six stages over three days at the festival on the Peterborough Embankment. TWF will remain the same scale and format as in previous years, but with further attractions on the site. The 2012 festival will remain a free event to the public and is funded via sponsorship, Peterborough City Council support and concession sales. The Willow Festival embraces all genres of LIVE music from punk to jazz and it's focus is on quality music rather than celebrity. However, the festival always had well known headliners and will do so again in 2012.