Ludlow Fringe Festival is back this summer - featuring five days of fun for all from 13-17 August.

Headlining the festival is ‘joke machine’ and social media sensation, Jake Lambert, as well as comedy in abundance from Steve Punt, Drew Taylor’s Friday Night Comedy Club and new show Whisky Tango Foxtrot from local writer, Paul Jennings.

If you are looking for music, there is everything from rock with the Dirty Rockin’ Scoundrels to blues from Remi Harris. Folk from The Rotundas, sea shanties from the Press Gangers and 70s acoustic vibes from The Moseley Brothers.

Also on the line-up is gripping theatre from The Shropshire Lass, Chopped Liver and Unions, a Foraging Fan Club, Frankenstein and Mrs Armitage on Wheels – a live children’s show adapted from a fabulous Quentin Blake story. There are 60 FREE children’s tickets available for the show. Follow Ludlow Assembly Rooms on Facebook to find out more.

The festival will also welcome the return of Rex Factor, live! A hugely popular and very funny history podcast - Ali and Graham will be deciding who should be the ultimate Rex Factor champion from their first three series’. Get ready to hear who has scored highest on ‘battleyness, scandal and longevity’. 

Events will be taking place at Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ludlow Brewery and in the Secret Garden at Castle Bookshop. Tickets are available now from ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk