Hive Street Festival celebrates success
A popular community street festival which returned for a fourth year, took place on the last bank-holiday Monday.
Bosses at Shrewsbury youth arts charity the Hive, who organised the event on Belmont in the town, say it was a resounding success, certainly bigger and better than the previous three years.
The aim of the Hive's street festival each year is to provide a fun day for families and people of all ages to enjoy. Attractions this year included the return of the Maypole, performances from emerging musicians such as Not Completely Blonde and Beth Prior, plus a Henna artist and a DJ. There were various stalls and trade-stands - plus lots of interactive sessions and activities for young people, with crafts, headband making and arts.
Refreshments were provided by the team from neighbouring Eat-Up of Milk Street - and people also benefitted from the chance to participate in face-painting, beauty treatments and even a couple of classic vehicles which joined the event this year. Another particular highlight was a military Pipe and Drumming band, from the Royal Irish Regiment based at Tern Hill - and their performance was extremely well-received by lots of people.
Attendance was on a similar level to last year, with more than a 1000 people of all ages visiting and participating throughout the course of the afternoon. The weather held off too, remaining dry right until the end!
Support and those involved in the event this year, included; Severnside Housing, Wace Morgan solicitors, Eat-Up, White Stuff Foundation, EAST clothing, Jaguar Public Relations, Whittingham Riddell and Girl Friday Web and Home Services. Also supporting the day were; Shrewsbury Town Centre Residents Association, Salop Medical Services, Battlefield Printing Group, Jim Hawkins Ltd, SLC Solicitors, Hennacat, Outback 2 Basics, Iddy's Ices and Bright Owls language school amongst many others.
Habib Malik-Mansell of the Hive said "Once again, it was positive to see so many people coming along to support the event. It definitely appears to have become an annual event in the diaries of lots of local residents - and we always love seeing the spectrum of ages that attend and interact." He added "This year we also had several new organisations involved for the very first time too, including Shropshire Wildlife Trust and Cycle Shrewsbury."
