It’s the 172ndPaignton Regatta and our Community Fun Week will be building on the hugely successful evenings of entertainment, whilst continuing our ethos of providing nine days full of FREE entertainment for all the family on Paignton Green.
Our event is run entirely by a small but dedicated band of local volunteers and all our events are funded through sponsorship, advertising, the support of our stallholders and the kind donations of the public who visit us during the week. Our event also supports and raises money for a number of charities and local good causes.
Regatta has always been a mix of the traditional and the new. We will be bringing back a number of our popular events this year and will have a brand-new layout on the green for you.
Details of our programme are still being finalised but there are some headline events that we can tell you about for 2019.
Beat the Tide will return on the afternoon of Sunday the 11th. We will be looking for teams to build massive sandcastles that will support them as the tide comes in. Last team standing is the winner!
Other events during the week include the Regatta Cycle Races and Regatta Mile running race at Torbay Velopark, plus Children’s Day - a day of crazy fun and games with our friends from Torbay Children’s Week.
The Fun Dog Show will take place on the final weekend and the grand firework display will be held on Friday the 16th at dusk.
Our evening events are fast becoming the highlight of our week and our stage comes alive again with our series of ‘Regatta Rocks’ events.
First up on Saturday the 10th of August, we kick off our evenings of live music with a top Elton John tribute act - Absolutely Elton. With the success of the movie Rocketman, we’ll be belting out all of the best tracks from 40 years of Elton’s career.
The series continues on Wednesday with a Rock Legends evening, in association with our friends at BMAD. We have an amazing MeatLoaf tribute for you by Meatloud.
Thursday sees a new event for Paignton Regatta. We’ll be bringing retro tunes to Paignton Green, with a Absolute 80’s evening. We have a live band - Riviera Dogs and DJ.
Friday is firework night and we are planning a special tribute act for our stage – something that everyone will be able to get involved with.With the success of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody we are bring you one the country’s best Freddie Mercury tribute.
Saturday night will be our final evening of live music and we’re going all country and western, wit a top Dolly Parton tribute act.
We’ll be wrapping up our event with a Soulful Sunday afternoon of live music with a real soul and Motown feel.
As well as our stage entertainment, we’ll have demonstrations and displays for all the family; plus a fully-licensed bar, hot and cold food and a number of stalls selling crafts or raising money and awareness for local and national causes. Anderton & Rowlands funfair will be joining us and bringing all the fun of the fair to Paignton Green.
Our free programme will be in shops and holiday accommodation around Torbay from July, plus we will have plenty of copies at Regatta HQ on the Green. If you have a programme, you won't miss a thing!
You can also keep up with all the latest news and find detailed event schedules on our website or our page:
www.paigntonregatta.com
www.facebook.com/paignton.regatta
