Popular Cheshire event Deva Fest has confirmed it's to return this summer.
The three day music, food and lifestyle festival will take place from August 12 until August 14 2022, with tickets set to sell out fast - organisers have revealed festival fans are rushing to snap up tickets, with more than 60% already sold.
Festival-goers can expect a boutique experience with a host of attractions and services included in the ticket price as part of the festival’s 'Deva Fest Difference' .
Tickets include free fairground rides, free parking and a daily £1 shuttle bus to and from the Chester Lakes site from as far afield as Wrexham and Ellesmere Port.
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Officially launched in 2019, the Cheshire’s family-friendly music, food and lifestyle event proved hugely popular. Like many others, last summer’s Deva Fest had to be postponed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
New additions to the event include a special mermaid cove attraction which will boast amazing aquatic acrobatics from mermaids and mermen in a 10-metre-long tank – Europe’s largest.
There will be bubble discos and meet-and-greets, while the mermaids will take on Deva Fest’s swashbucklers on Pirate Saturday, kicking off on August 13.
Music lovers will have plenty to enjoy at the festival with singer-songwriter and pop-rap princess Betty Boo being the latest star to be announced, appearing as part of a stellar all-female Saturday big stage lineup that also includes headliners Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Heather Small, along with Shola Ama and Belle Voci.
The festival weekend will also feature Scouting for Girls, Dodgy, Symphonic Ibiza and Sonique. They will play on the main stage, which is located inside a big top, while a second, open-air, stage will host a mixture of up-and-coming bands, DJs and local talent.
Deva Fest 2022 will also boast the Deva Laughs comedy tent, the hugely popular Gin and Prosecco Festival, a bespoke selection of high-quality food and drink options including bars run by Chester’s own Liquor & Co, and some of the best festival conveniences around as well as an NCT Chester breastfeeding and changing tent.
Guests can choose from a huge range of new camping options within the Chester Lakes complex, with pitches for tents, camper vans, caravans and RVs all just a stone's throw from the Deva Fest action.
Deva Fest managing partner Phil Marston said: "We’re really proud to have brought together such a huge range of stars and attractions for 2022 – and to include so many activities and festival facilities in the ticket price. This is what we call the Deva Fest Difference and we’ve worked hard to build the event with the comfort and happiness of our festival-goers in mind.
“The music lineup is incredibly strong, as is the whole breadth of the festival offer from the hand-picked, high-quality food and drink on site – including the hugely-popular Gin and Prosecco Festival - to the Deva Laughs comedy tent, Pirate Day, and now the addition of the fantastic mermaid cove too.
"With a wide range of new camping options too, we’re confident festival-goers are going to have a fantastic weekend in August."
Deva Fest will take place across the weekend of Friday, August 12; Saturday, August 13 and Sunday 14 August 2022, at Chester Lakes in Dodleston, which is around a 50 minute drive from Liverpool city centre, and three miles from Chester city centre.
Full camping details and prices are on the website. For more information about Deva Fest and to book, click here.
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