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Returning for it’s fourth year, the home of Hampshire Cricket welcomes The Ageas Family Festival on 1st August. Alongside fantastic family entertainment, the Festival will feature the Royal London One-Day Cup – Hampshire v Middlesex, with a headline musical performance from Boyzone, one of the UKs best-loved boybands.
Known for hits including ‘Love Me For A Reason’, ‘Words’, ‘No Matter What’ and ‘When The Going Gets Tough’, Boyzone are currently celebrating two decades in the music industry. Within these 20 years, the band have tallied up an impressive 5 Brit Awards, eighteen top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, six No. 1 UK hit singles and five No. 1 albums, with 25 million records sold by 2013 worldwide. They released their sixth studio album ‘From Dublin to Detroit’ last year, featuring their favourite songs from the Motown era, including renditions of “You Can’t Hurry Love”, “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” plus many more.
After the heroics of the Irish team in the Cricket World Cup, we're glad to be bringing a bit of the Irish craic to the The Ageas Bowl on August 1st. It will be the last gig of the Summer for Boyzone so we're all looking forward to a great night.
Boyzone
Prior to the headlining performance by Boyzone, the cricketing action will see Hampshire face Middlesex in a Royal London One-Day Cup match. The Royal London One-Day Cup, a 50-over competition, offers a midpoint between County Championship cricket and the NatWest T20 Blast. As such, it benefits from the best of both of the aforementioned formats, the tactics and intricacies of County Championship and some of the fireworks associated with Twenty20 cricket.
Fun for all ages, this unique event sees the return of The Ageas Family Festival, which will provide the backdrop to both the cricketing and musical entertainment. The popular festival promises to be bigger and better than ever before. A whole host of family-friendly activities will be installed onsite and available for use throughout the day. Plus, alongside the exciting cricketing action, the The Ageas Bowl will welcome the arrival of the Red Devils (British Army) who will parachute into the ground during the innings interval!
Free activities for children will range from bouncy castles to climbing walls, laser quest to a fun fair, with Cricket Coaching also returning alongside an arts and crafts area for all.
We pride ourselves on innovation here at the The Ageas Bowl and we are delighted to be partnering with Music plus Sport to again deliver a ground-breaking event for all the family. There can’t be many more family days out with so much included and we can’t wait to welcome everyone on 1st August.
Stuart Robertson - Commercial Director,
We are very proud of our partnership with The Ageas Bowl, and delighted to be supporting The Ageas Family Festival for the fourth year. It’s all about delivering new experiences at a venue that has much to offer, especially given the new ‘Hilton at The Ageas Bowl’ will be open for this year’s season. This event provides the opportunity for those that don’t usually attend the cricket to experience what the sport has to offer, but also, something new for the avid fan, with the introduction of Cricket Live. We are really excited about this event and look forward to continuing to work in partnership with The Ageas Bowl over the years to come.
Paul Lynes - Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Ageas
