All Aboard, a day of watery pleasures billed as “suitable for both landlubbers and water rats”, takes place at high tide on Saturday, September 3 from Woodmill to Priory Road public hard.

 

Now in its fourth year and presented by St Denys Boat Club and locals, organisers say All Aboard “remains a grass roots home grown community event”.

It brings together all kinds of people for “musical, poetic, theatrical, colourful, unusual and unpredictable” ‘happenings’ on and around our stretch of the river.

This year a new stage pops up at Woodmill Coffee and Kitchen, playing an earlier set from midday until 4pm.

Families pull up to listen to storyteller Michael O'Leary at All Aboard in 2020

Other stages will appear up and down the river on pontoons, in private and public gardens, and even on boats, playing from about 2pm until 6.30pm.

There’s even a ‘Priory Road Pizza Pontoon’ expected this year!

There will be land access to performers too - at Pettinger and Janaway gardens in St Denys, and bands can also heard at Riverside Park from the 'pontunes' opposite.

The exhibition by local artists also returns this year, upstairs at St Denys Boat Club (access: flight of stairs), with public viewings on the weekends of August 27/28, Sept, 3/4 and Sept 10/11. This year’s theme: ‘all washed up’.

More info from the All Aboard website

• All Aboard, on and around the River Itchen from Woodmill to Priory Road public hard, from 2 – 6pm on Saturday, September 3, weather permitting

Previously
Our write-up/photos of the 2020 All Aboard festival

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