It’s time to get your boogie on!
From daytime into evening, join us on our brand new Piccadilly Stage for live music and drop-in dance sessions.
Learn new moves, catch thrilling cabaret and enjoy foot-stomping bands!
The Line-Up
Check out The Big Feast Schedule for further details.
Fri 23 Aug
5pm • The Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band
Lasts: 50 min
Bringing Rajasthan vibes to The Potteries, experience the hypnotic sounds and dance of the acclaimed brass band.
6:20pm • Steel for Stoke
Lasts: 40 min
Filling Piccadilly with Caribbean sunshine, Stoke’s own steel pan band bring calypsos, reggae, jazz and pop tunes
7:30pm • Disco Tea Party
Until: 9pm
Take a seat at the golden table for the most glamorous afternoon-tea ever. With cucumber sandwiches, disco beats, party games, diva vocals and a teapot full of sequins!
Sat 24 Aug
11:15am • The Swing Era: learn to swing!
Lasts: 45 min
The Swing Era introduce you to the art of Lindy hop in a fun taster class for all the family.
12pm • Sam Wooster and The Rhythm Remedies
Lasts: 60 min
With your new swing skills have a boogie as this talented band of jazz musicians bring you Classic Jazz standards.
1:30pm • Folk Dance Remixed: Ceilidh Jam
Until: 3:30pm
Get on your feet for a unique, funked up, social dance as Folk Dance Remixed mix up folk formations with street dance and freestyle grooves.
4pm • Eternal Taal
Lasts: 30 min
Boogie to brilliant bangra music from this award-winning all- female company of dhol drummers.
5pm • Stoke Sings! Presents The Big Sing
Lasts: 30 min
Don’t miss Stoke Sings! take over Piccadilly in a mass choir performance celebrating the joy of singing together! Fancy being part of it? Take part in The Big Sing Workshop.
5:45pm • Learn Northern Soul
Lasts: 30 min
Learn how to twist, kick and jump to some Northern Soul classics in our drop in dance class.
6:15pm • DJ Dole Cue
Lasts: 45 min
DJ Dole Cue will be bringing the best eclectic mix of Northern, Stax, Funk Yacht Rock and a few sonic surprises thrown in for good measure. Keep on keepin’ people!
7:30pm • Trés Trés Cabaret
Until: 9pm
Be teased by tempting burlesque artists, be thrilled by daring circus and laugh your socks off with our comedians.
Hosted by Stage Door Johnny and featuring: clowning from Kiki Lovechild; juggling from the outstanding Jon Udry; contortionist Hannah Finn and dance troupe, The Flaming Feathers.
About The Big Feast
Stoke-on-Trent’s freshest outdoor arts festival, The Big Feast returns to fill the streets of the City Centre (Hanley) once again with scrumptious free entertainment on Friday 23 & Saturday 24 August 2019.
Check out the Big Feast ’19 Brochure for the full line-up plus a map and schedule so you can start planning your visit.
The Big Feast is led by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Stoke-on-Trent Business Improvement District (BID) and the Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.
Appetite is an Arts Council England-funded Creative People and Places programme led by New Vic Theatre in partnership with Partners in Creative Learning, 6Towns Radio, Staffordshire University.
