LEGENDARY Haçienda DJ Graeme Park is set to headline at the biggest ever RivFest this summer, alongside other big names including the Lottery Winners.
RivFest will be returning to Warrington’s Golden Square for a three-day weekender across Friday 5th – Sunday 7th Aug 2022, also featuring some of the hottest upcoming acts and festival mainstays performing over the weekend.
There will be a Standing capacity of 3,000 with plenty of food and drink outlets to enjoy.
The charity festival, founded by The River Reeves Foundation, was launched after River and his band Viola Beach along with their manager Craig Tarry tragically died in a car accident in Sweden in 2016.
RivFest is one of the many fundraising outlets for The River Reeves Foundation, an arts charity that aims to provide bursaries and support for disadvantaged young people, helping them create successful futures within the performing and visual arts.
Many of the local acts at RIVFEST have previously been recipients of the RRF’s bursaries, and the festival aims to inspire even more young people from the area to pick up a musical instrument, paintbrush, or camera.
Graeme Park
Park started out working in the Nottingham record shop, Select-a-Disc Records, from where his early forays into DJing were at The Garage Club (later The Kool Kat) in Nottingham. He later joined Mike Pickering (of M-People fame) at the decks of the renowned The Haçienda club, in 1987, where he played until the venue closed in June 1997. Park and Pickering were credited with putting the club on the map with their successful club nights, notably hosting the visionary “Nude” night on Fridays.
His long career first began in early 1984 playing acid house around numerous bars and clubs in Nottingham. Park was the runner up to Danny Rampling in the inaugural Best DJ in the World Award by DJ Magazine in 1991.
Indie Pop group The Lottery Winners from Leigh, formed in 2008, will headline on the saturday, while Sunday’s headliners will be Cheshire indie rock band The Zangwills.
For more details visit https://officialrivfest.com/
