25th-29th Aug 2011 Expansion........for all the right reasons in Towersey

The beautiful Oxfordshire village of Towersey is the year round home to 400 residents and yet come the bank holiday in August that number expands to some 10’000 visitors, across Towersey Festivals 4 days.  This combination of rural village and spectacular family festival somehow blends to create an atmosphere that has developed over the festivals 47 year history.  Although mainly a greenfield site event, the Festival spills into Village, with stages in the Church, Memorial Hall and Village Pub.

And expansion is this year’s buzz word for Towersey’s programme.  With 9 stages and over 450 events, it’s a wall to wall offering that includes major headliners such as Billy Bragg, Cara Dillon, The Burns Unit (featuring Mercury Nominee King Creosote) and Berlins 17 Hippies down to loads of hands on workshops, the Keats Society resident poet, Cutting edge singer songwriters and the BBC Oxford Introduces showcase.  Towersey has been described as “another lovelier world” and past customers testify to its absolute uniqueness in the Festival calendar.

With only 2 weeks to go until the 47th Festival, tickets are selling at an unprecedented level.  In the current climate organisers had hoped to just about make it to last year’s level of sales, but to date sales are ahead and they hope that the remaining few will go within the next week or so.

Raising funds for local and national charities, the Festival has never lost money, has been supported by commercial companies and governments from time to time over the years but has always maintained its independence as an event.

Towersey Festival offers an opportunity to join in from a Showground Pass for £7 on the door to an all encompassing weekend pass for £112.  The Festival is expanding but always welcomes new visitors.

Music, Dance, Street Theatre, Huge Real Ale Bar, Array of Festival Food, Poetry, Storytelling, Workshops, Craft and Music Fairs, Visual Art & Sculpture and surprises round every corner!