Foodie Friday set to be a Christmas cracker
DECK the Market Hall with bows of holly - the community is coming together for Christmas Foodie Friday!
This Friday, December 15, is National Christmas Jumper Day so dig out your wackiest woolly pully and head on down to join our festivities in the Market Place and donate some cash to the Save The Children appeal.
Foodie Friday is part of the Stockport Old Town Festive Fringe sponsored by Robinsons Brewery, showcasing all the great events in the Market Place leading up to Christmas.
Over the past four years of Foodie Friday it’s become a Christmas tradition for our great friends The Stockport Ukulele Players to perform and we are extremely proud that they were one of the community music groups chosen to feature in the feel-good Co-operative Christmas advert.
The message is that people of all ages and backgrounds come together to enjoy food and music at Christmas and this couldn’t be more apparent than at Foodie Friday.
Before we opened Seven Miles Out exactly four years ago this month, there was no evening economy in the Market Place and steadily the community has grown as people have more great reasons to visit and now there are a wealth of attractions here in Stockport Old Town with award-winning food, locally brewed ales and a vibrant culture of live music and entertainment.
Making a welcome return to Foodie Friday this month are the Affinity Show Choir from Offerton who will be singing Christmas songs in the Market Hall, young band The Outsiders from Bramhall playing some classic covers and energetic three-piece Sexton who are making a Christmas pilgrimage to Stockport all the way from the south of France and will be playing tracks from their sixth album Butterfly.
All the bands will be playing second sets in Seven Miles Out, our creative community space that celebrates all things Stockport.
I’m hoping the Stockport Ukulele Players will be playing their rendition of ‘Stockport’s Really Fantastic’ written for us by the legendary Frank Sidebottom which has become the singalong anthem for the arts centre with the words emblazoned on our mural.
We hope you can join us for some proper Christmas community spirit here in Stockport Old Town.
For more information visit www.skfoodiefriday. co.uk and www. stockportoldtown.co.uk.