Celebrating Life around the Canal: A themed morning at Chippenham Folk Festival

Celebrating the rich history and life around canals, Chippenham Folk Festival presents a morning exploring canals.

Join Dave Maloney, volunteer from the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust, sharing wonderful stories of our local canal. This is a tale of history, community, and the long-term project to restore the local canal.
Storyteller and narrowboat dweller Ian Douglas has salvaged a wealth of stories from the depths.

Murder and mystery, heroes and love, devils and oatcakes are all wrapped up in this storytelling session on canal life.

After a brief intermission the Towpath Singers share their canal-based shanties.