Spotlight on Festivals – No.1: Wychwood Music Festival

May 22, 2009 > Featured, Festivals

With ‘festival season’ now well and truly approaching, we decided to take a look at what’s going on this summer festival-wise around the ‘nham. It’s a fair bet too that you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the wealth of events our little town is offering over the coming months. So stay tuned over the next few weeks as we profile some of the best festivals taking place, both large and small (or intimate, as they prefer to be known).

And where better to start than with probably the biggest and most high profile of them all – Wychwood Music Festival. Taking place between the 29th and 31st of May (yes, that’s next week – get your skates on!), Wychwood is the ideal way to kick off your festival filled summer. Having been described variously as a ‘bijou Glastonbury’ and a ‘hybrid of the Big Chill, WOMAD and The Cambridge Folk Festival’, this is a proudly unique festival on our very own doorstep.

This year acts include Super Furry Animals, Little Boots, The Wonder Stuff, Supergrass, The Beat and Oojami Sound System amongst others, and the festival has played host to the likes of Fun Lovin’ Criminals, The Proclaimers, Badly Drawn Boy and Rodrigo y Gabriela since it started back in 2005. The range of music on offer can only be described as ‘eclectic’, and this is indicative of the festival’s general ethos. Amongst the hat full of award nominations this relatively new festival has received, possibly the most notable are the four nominations (in a row) for ‘best family festival’, and the multitude of all-ages workshops and entertainment show that this festival really is for everyone.

So grab yourselves a ticket and we’ll see you down there!