Suffolk Herring Festival
Two days to celebrate the herring as a vibrant part of the Suffolk heritage
22-23 October 2011 – Middleton Farm Shop, Middleton, Suffolk, IP17 3NS
Saturday 22th October
10.00 Festival Opens
The fun begins – learn interesting and useful things about the herring in Suffolk
10.00 – 12.00 Children’s Film Show at Westleton Village Hall
PONYO – An animated adventure about a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess.
11.00 -12.00 – Filleting, Preparing and Cooking the Humble Herring
Chefs from Suffolk will show you how to prepare delicious herring recipes for you to sample. Richard Burrell shows you how to fillet fish.
11.00 – 12.00 Bridget Cousins gets us all singing!
11.00 – 11.30 Captain Haddock’s knotty workshop
11.45 – 1.00 Withy Making and Net Making
12.00 – 2.30 Herring Barbecue & Bar
Eat herring, enjoy a drink from the bar, and explore local arts and crafts
12.30 – 1.00 Peter Herring
A new operetta-playish sort of thing to celebrate the double F in Suffolk – fishing and fun.
1.00 – 1.30 Acoustic Guitar with David Harvey
1.30 – 2.00 Sea songs from Richard Turner and Brian Barker and poems of the sea
2.30 Judging the Sculpture Competition with Paul Richardson
3.00 – 4.00 Singing & Knitting with the Herring Gals
Sunday 23th October
10.00 Festival Opens
Carry on eating and singing, become an expert on local kippers, and get a new passion for the not-so-humble herring.
10.30 – 11.30 Singing & Knitting with the Herring Gals
11.00 -12.00 – Filleting, Preparing and Cooking the Humble Herring
Chefs from Suffolk will show you how to prepare delicious herring recipes for you to sample. Richard Burrell shows you how to fillet fish.
11.00 – 11.30 Mark Mitchels on Herring History
10.30 – 2.00 Kipper Brunch
Local kippers made even more delicious on the festival barbecue – enjoy them with a drink at the bar. Guaranteed to set you up for the day, while you enjoy herring music.
12.00 – 12.30 Peter Herring
A new operetta-playish sort of thing to celebrate the double F in Suffolk – fishing and fun.
12.30 – 1.00 Sea songs from Richard Turner and Brian Barker and poems of the sea
1.30 – 2.30 Jenny Nutbeem makes fishy art out of flotsam and jetsam.
1.30 – 2.30 Morse Code for Herrings
Leiston Amateur Radio Club demonstrate how to communicate using Morse Code
2.30 – 3.30 The Knitted Fish Auction
Count the knitted herring, buy a fish, sing a bit more and, whatever the weather,carry on eating herring until it’s time to go home.
You can print out a version of this programme by clicking here – SHF Schedule 2011
See Where Button for location and instructions on how to get to the Suffolk Herring Festival.
Information on Suffolk Herring Festival 2009
Information on Suffolk Herring Festival at MAFAFAM 2010
Hi
Someone gave me your flyer on the festival and I am very interested. I come from Fraserburgh and remember the herring boats going off for the summer following the herring down the coast to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. I also remember that lovely smell and the first taste of herrings and of course the salted herring all winter. My grandfather was a cooper and I have some lovely old photographs of him and the women he worked with.
I cannot help this weekend but is there any way I can get involved at other times?
thanks Pat
By: Pat Walker on October 20, 2009
at 10:25 am
Great to hear from you, Pat, we would love to know more about the herring barrels and see some of the photos. I’ll email you.
By: kelvin on October 20, 2009
at 6:40 pm
Hi
I was asked by Hugh Pilkington if I could give Jill a ring to talk about my childhood in Fraserburgh but I lost the number he gave me.
Jill, would you email me your number and I will try again.
Pat
By: Pat Walker on January 14, 2010
at 2:55 pm
Hello,
Where exactly in Suffolk is the herring festival to be held?
By: Kerstin Holder on July 27, 2011
at 12:59 pm
Click on Where and thanks for pointing out I hadn’t made this obvious for 2011 – we hope you’ll come along.
By: kelvin on July 27, 2011
at 1:46 pm
AND…..Britten’s opera Albert Herring is on at Snape from 19th-23rd. A veritable shoal of herring!
By: Penny de Quincey on August 2, 2011
at 11:51 am
Never been to a herring festival before, but very much looking forward to this one. I was watching “Coast” and they were showing a herringfest in the Netherlands, so i googled to see if there was one closer to home, and was very excited to see this one is back for 2011. Look forward to seeing you there.
p.s. why has no one ‘tweeted’ about this? If I knew how to , I would. Spreda the word. The word is herring!
By: Keith on August 6, 2011
at 2:51 pm
@SuffHerrFest please spread the word!
By: kelvin on August 6, 2011
at 3:17 pm