High Town in Luton will be ‘buzzing’ as festival steps up a gear

High Town Festival

High Town

Saturday, 1pm

THREE years in and the High Town Festival has set its sights on making next month’s event ‘bigger and better’ than before.

The annual community event brings together the best of local entertainment, food, music and business on July 4 and is aiming to be a yearly cultural destination for people from all over the Home Counties.

Luke Middleton, a local neighbourhood community worker and member of the organising committee, said the festival created a ‘really great buzz of people coming together and having a great time’.

A large crowd is expected this year so High Town Road has been closed traffic and the closures will run from the junction with Havelock Road to the junction with Midland Road.

So how has it come about?

Luke said: “It was originally started as a small thing with a few groups involved.

“The idea is to bring the people who live in High Town together to have a really fun day, so all age groups and nationalities come together and celebrate – it’s a community festival.

“The growth has come from more groups getting involved and there’s now lots of community groups and stalls.

“We have started to increase that this year by extending the time and we’ve made space for more stalls.”

A new edition to this year’s festival is a food market serving a selection of Greek, Brazilian and Spanish dishes, as well as Brocklebys pies, jerk chicken, UK Bratwurst, French bread and pâtisseries.

What else will be there?

“This year people can expect a fun day with live music performances all the way down High Town Road.

“It will just be a really great buzz with people coming together and having a great time.

“We have a local ska band called EasyDread and we have got some students from Luton Sixth Form College and they are performing some of the Fleetwood Mac hits.

“We have got St Matthew’s Primary School singing and a local singing group called Forte Voices.”

For more information about the festival go online and visit facebook.com/HighTownFestival