Northampton Balloon Festival

Northampton Balloon Festival

The Northampton Balloon Festival is an annual hot air balloon festival held in the English town of Northampton.

The original festival was held in the Racecourse park and managed by the Borough Council, and took place over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday in mid-August. The main features of the festival were the twice-daily hot air balloon lifts, but other attractions included trade stalls, live music and arena entertainment.

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The first festival was held in 1990.

In 2003 the festival was joined with the Northampton Town Show (previously held during July) to become the Northampton Festival, but has since reverted to its original name.

The 2004 festival featured the Sugababes, Big Brovaz, and Ronan Keating.

The 2005 festival featured Rachel Stevens and Lemar.

The 2007 festival was a disaster due to poor attendance caused by bad weather on the last two days and the fact that the council decided to charge adults for admission, which discouraged many adults without young children from attending and spending money at the stalls.

The 2008 festival was scaled down from before, with fewer stalls, and featured Rick Astley and Signature but neither were able to revive the festival's fortunes and the event made a huge loss.

The borough council ceased its funding and in mid 2009 the festival was revived by new organisers and moved to Billing Aquadrome. It took place 14–16 August 2009 at the new location with free admission.[1][2]

The 2010 Northampton Balloon Festival was once again based at Billing Aquadrome, however that year the organisers chose to charge entry.[citation needed]

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Coordinates: 52°14′44″N 0°49′00″W / 52.2456°N 0.8166°W / 52.2456; -0.8166



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