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🚣‍♂️ Boxmoor Canal Weekend & Floating Market 2025 - Live Folk Roots & Blues


Time: 10:00 - 19:00

🚣‍♂️ Boxmoor's canal weekend is held over the last bank holiday weekend in May. Fishery Wharf Café will play host to a weekend of live music alongside the colourful Herts Roving Canal Traders three-day floating boat market, situated between Fishery Lock and Old Fishery Lane Bridge.

🗓 DATES:
Saturday 24th - Monday 26th May 2025

🎶 WHAT TO EXPECT

Come along to listen to the music, sample the delicious café food and freshly made to order pizza, enjoy a drink from our licensed bar and stroll along the canal, soaking up the colour' and atmosphere of the 3 day floating market as you peruse and purchase some beautiful gifts and handmade items.

Three days of Blues, Folk & Roots music performed on the canal-side open-air stage at Fishery Wharf Café Canal Lock, This is an ideal event for families and an excellent chance for children to see some first-class music. The full 3-day music line up below.

🗓 Saturday 24th May – Live Music afternoon & evening.
▪️12.00 - Blue Jam Acoustic - Indie Folk Originals
▪️13.00 - Marky Dawson - Piano Man
14.00 - The ZML BAND - Classic Acoustic Covers
▪️15.00 - TBC
▪️16.00 - Marky Dawson - Piano Man
▪️17.00 - Shane Lamont & Friends - Acoustic Covers
▪️18.00 - TBC

🗓 Sunday 25th May - Live Music afternoon & evening.
▪️12.00 - TBC
▪️13.00 - Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira - Canadian Folk
▪️14.00 – The Rosellys – Americana Country Blues
▪️15.00 - John Knowles - Originals & Covers
▪️16.00 - Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira - Canadian Folk
▪️17.00 - The Rosellys – Americana Country Blues
▪️18.00 - TBC

🗓 Monday 26th May - Live Music afternoon.
▪️12.00 - John Abbott – Acoustic Folky Blues
▪️13.00 - The Shuffle Pack - Blues
▪️14.00 - Lost Revellers - Gypsy Jazz
▪️15.00 - Two Gun Matilda - Rhythm & Blues
▪️16.00 - The Shuffle Pack - Classic Blues Covers
▪️17.00 - Kaspar & Lucy Piper - Blues
▪️18.00 - Open Mic Hosted by Shane Lamont (Indoors)

🅿️ PARKING
Parking - Please park responsibly, parking in side streets outside our neighbours driveways doesn't help anybody!! Please walk to the event where you can or park at the station carpark over the road or at Camelot Rugby Club.

▪️Camelot Rugby Club (8 minute walk): FREE !
▪️Station Carpark: £2.50

For more information on the Hertfordshire Roving Canal Traders click on our event link.

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