THE Saltaire Festival is set to conclude with its biggest weekend yet, as last-minute preparations are taking place.

The annual festival will conclude this weekend after it was postponed due to the national period of mourning following the death of Her Majesty The Queen earlier this month.

The second, finale weekend of the re-arranged festival, will see a host of music acts take over Roberts Park in Saltaire.

Both days will see non-stop music between 10am and 7pm, with a new act taking to the park’s stage on the hour every hour. A house DJ will play a short slot from 35 minutes past the hour as the change between acts takes place.

The Caroline Street Car Park Craft market returns this weekend. It will open from 10am to 6pm both days and is bigger than ever this year with more than 20 stalls ranging from jewellery, homewares, sweet treats and Indian food to prints and gifts.

The 2019 version of the event, the last to be held in full before the pandemic, attracted 60,000 people.

The continental street market on Exhibition Road in Saltaire starts on Friday and runs until Sunday night.

Ian Andrews-Swailes, Saltaire Festival chairman, says he is looking forward to the festival weekend taking place this weekend after facing a ‘backlash’ after the event’s dates were moved.

He said: “I think it’s going to be the biggest ever festival.

“Fingers crossed it should be phenomenal. It should be good fun. We are about there now with everything. We’re ready to rock ‘n’ roll.

“This is our 19th year now. It’s our mission to showcase Saltaire and showcase the really good things that the Bradford district has to offer with the 2025 City of Culture bid.

“The build-up to this year’s festival has been horrendous. It was a postponement of the festival before, not a cancellation. The backlash I got for it was unbelievable.

“So many things had to be planned again and everything had to be moved in two weeks.”

The festivities began last weekend and included a screening of Mamma Mia – The Movie starring Meryl Streep in Roberts Park on September 24.

Road closures will also be in place on Exhibition Road and Caroline Street over the weekend of October 1 and 2.

Parking on the lower section of Victoria Road will be suspended during this closing weekend of the festival.

Buses will divert via Saltaire Road during the festival.

 

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