Charlbury Riverside Festival 2009

This Festival can trace its roots back at least 18 years, and the organisers claim that it's the largest FREE festival of its type in Oxfordshire. Charlbury returns on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June.

The line-up is as follows:
Main Stage:
Saturday: Hearts in Pencil, Thin Green Candles, This Is Music For Pleasure, Flutatious, InLight, Smilex, Little Fish, and Tristan And The Troubadors.
Sunday: Wam, Billypure, Alan Frazier, Two Fingers of Firewater, The Epstein, and Liddington.

Second Stage:
Saturday: Moon Leopard, The inventions of Jerry Darge, Desert Storm, Jamie Foley, Ruins, Dave Bowmer, Stuart Turner, Death Of A Small Town, Sextodecimo, and Winnebago Deal.
Sunday: Relay, Judi Luxmore, 1000 Mile Highway, Man Make Fire, Life of Riley, The and Bangalore Torepedos.

Expect music to start on Saturday at noon going through until about 10pm. Events on Sunday begin at 11am running until 8pm. Previous years have had crowds of around five thousand people coming to enjoy these two days of music set on an 'island' in the River Evenlode.

This year there's an activity area for under-tens - the Do-ing, Do-ing club, next to the Tea bar, where parents can sit down with a cuppa and watch their offspring enjoying themselves. Activities will include clay modelling, willow weaving, plastic bag weaving and the Great Graffiti Wall where kids can paint their own designs. There will be face painting and a bouncy castle.

There is plenty of food on site with a pig roast and stalls selling burgers and baguettes, hot dogs, noodles, curries and crepes. Like all festivals, festival goers cannot bring bottles and cans into the arena, but the two bars and other refreshment stalls will be selling drinks at very reasonable prices.

Entrance to the Festival site is down Mill Lane, off Dyers Hill, virtually opposite Charlbury railway station. The railway station is just two minutes walk away from the festival site (15 miles north of Oxford on the Paddington to Hereford line). On the Saturday there are buses from Oxford, Woodstock, Witney, Chipping Norton and Banbury to the centre of Charlbury, five minutes walk from the Festival.

The area has local hotels and B&Bs and there is the Cotswold View Caravan and Camping Park on the outskirts of Charlbury.

For more information, see the Charlbury Riverside Festival website.

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