The Fuse Festival in Lichfield started out as a kind of Fringe to the Lichfield Festival… Well, on that basis, the Wayside Serenaders are a Fringe to the Fringe… albeit a Fringe of one band. A single-strand fringe, if you like, straggling across the bald pate of the woebegone…

We’ll be busking this Saturday (9 July) afternoon for your pleasure somewhere in Beacon Park so that as you make your way from town past the tennis courts and on towards the Fuse Festival marquees up beyond the sports fields you can make your promenade in step with the loping beat of Dead Skunk, the rapid run of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door or the louche funereal-step of St James Infirmary. Other options include joining those Saints as they Come Marching In or high-stepping Just A Closer Walk With Thee.

Look out for our motley band between 2.30 and 3.30pm.

And if you are around earlier, do check out our good friend the Lichfield Gospel Choir who are on stage in one of the Fuse marquees at 12.30pm.