Heal Fest comes to Shrewsbury.

The Heal Fest comes to Shrewsbury's West Midlands Showground, with music, a healing field and stalls.

Transcript

00:00Heelfestival 2024 Shrewsbury, hello sir.

00:03Hello, how are we?

00:04I'm good man, what's your name?

00:06My name's Dean and I'm the festival director for Heelfestival.

00:11Fantastic, so what's Heelfestival all about then?

00:14There's something in the name there, fill us in a bit.

00:15Well, okay, Heelfestival was conceived a few years ago

00:19during the painful lockdowns everyone was suffering from.

00:23And I say suffering because it did really affect the mental well-being of a lot of people

00:27and caused division in society between the likes of anti-vaxxers and vaxxers,

00:33neighbours, family members even.

00:35So we came up with this idea, let's build a music festival

00:40with a wellness field attached to it and push the message of healing that divide

00:46by bringing all people back together in what unites us all,

00:50the love of music, the love of celebration and for that whole healing message.

00:55So that's how Heelfestival was devised and so that's why you will see various different

01:02artists that wouldn't necessarily sit among each other and on the lineup.

01:06We've got six stages, we've got dance music which will appeal to a certain age,

01:10you've got indie, you've got reggae, you've got rock, you've got pretty much everything.

01:15So it's a cacophony of musical sounds that will please almost everyone.

01:23The overall message is bringing back together unity and getting rid of those divisions.