A day-long music festival featuring live eight bands and accompanied by fairground rides and pop-up bars will get under way this summer in celebration of a County Durham town's milestone anniversary.
Newton Aycliffe is to host the outdoor festival Ayclive - its first ever live event - on July 29 which will mark the town's 75-year anniversary. The festival has been almost two years in the planning, with its organisers Ayclive Events, which includes the team behind Shildon Live music festival, having postponed its initial hopes to host it last summer.
Now its delayed debut is promising much to celebrate and there are hopes to make it an annual event. While last year saw a new song, Shipyards, recorded by The Lake Poets' Martin Longstaff - along with local students and an adult choir - to mark the 75-year anniversary of the founding of Newton Aycliffe under the New Towns Act, Ayclive Events says it was 75 years ago this year, in 1948,- when the first sod was cut and the first tenants moved in.
