The 'new festival' will take place on the date on which the 'old' festival would have taken place, the 17th - 19th June, and will retain the name 'Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival'for this year at least, although a name change looks likely for future events.
The website has now been updated with a rather fetching Middlewich Town Council logo to reflect the new situation.
Thanks, Diane, for pointing out the fact that Middlewich does have the advantage of the Boat Rally running alongside its festival to create additional interest.
I own up to the fact that I very often overlook this aspect of the event, an attitude which can be traced back to the early years of the festival when the Boat Rally was almost a separate entity run, in those days, by the Trent & Mersey Canal Society, many of whose members made a point of staying well away from our folkie activities.
But that's another story and a different class of business altogether.
As Lizzie will tell you, once you've been involved in running a festival like MFAB it's very hard to break away and let others 'get on with it', but now seems like a good time for me to do so.
So good luck to the new Middlewich Festival, and all who sail in her...