The Essex festival with eating competitions and hours of live music

Jodie Bradley

10 July 2024 at 6:34 am·2-min read

Scenes at the Derbyshire Sausage and Cider Music Festival — -Credit: (Image: Derby Telegraph /Alex Cantrill-J)

An Essex festival hosting an eating challenge as well as hours of live music is returning this weekend. The event has an array of amazing food and drink on offer in addition to some great live music acts, while also having fun ways to let the audience join in with the fun.

Sausage and Cider Fest have brought the event back to Colchester with new acts, street food vendors and now up to 30 different ciders available on site. Along with the upgrades to the food, drink and entertainment, the festival has made improvements across the event with a new festival market, more kids entertainment and a bigger Silent Disco.

The event has the iconic band Scouting For Girls headlining the festival. There is also a massive range of tribute acts playing, including ABBA, Oasis, Sam Fender, The Killers and The Arctic Monkeys.

If you’re a big foodie, there are lots of eating challenges too to take a stab at. The fastest sausage eating contests means you’ll need to jump up on stage and join in to compete against other attendees to try and eat just over 1m of sausage as fast as you can!

For food daredevils, the festival has its famous chilli eating on stage competition. This includes six rounds of chillies gradually increasing in spice, so it is a hilarious way to actually test your spice tolerance.

Sausage and Cider Festival has a huge number of visitors as it travels all over the UK, and it estimates that by the end of the year the festival will have welcomed over 120,000 people through the doors, showcasing the amazing local and national ciders, that the UK has to offer.

The festival, located at Lower Castle Park, is happening on Saturday July 13 from 12pm to 10:30pm. Adult tickets cost £30, while under 18s can enter for £10.

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