Fairport's Cropredy Convention which takes place on Thursday 11, Friday 12 and Saturday 13 August 2016 has announced that their online box office will open on Wednesday 9 December 2015 and tickets will remain on sale throughout December ensuring pre-Christmas postal delivery to UK addresses.

Pre-Christmas three-day festival tickets cost £120 and camping tickets cost £45 for three nights. Two-day and Saturday-only tickets will go on sale on 1 February 2016.

The 2016 line-up will feature host band Fairport Convention who will open the festival on Thursday 11 August. Fairport will take the stage again on Saturday 13 to close the festival with their traditional two-hour headline set.

Other acts include Steeleye Span, Ralph McTell, Gryphon, Wille and the Bandits, The Bootleg Beatles, Sound of the Sirens, CoCo and the Butterfields & Hayseed Dixie. As always, veteran entertainer Richard Digance will open festivities on the Saturday and Cropredy will also present a set by the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner.

The rest of the line-up, including the Thursday and Friday headliners, will be announced in January 2016.

Fairport's Cropredy Convention festival takes place on a farmland site north of Banbury (three miles from Junction 11 of the M40 motorway). The three-day event is staged by folk-rock band Fairport Convention and attracts up to 20,000 music fans making it Oxfordshire's most popular music festival.