Workhouse Festival 2009

The dates for 2009 are confirmed as Friday 10th to Sunday 12th July (a week later than usual) for this environmentally conscious festival located in a beautiful setting.

The line-up includes The Blockheads, Subsource, Neck, The Kabeedies, Sam Isaac, We Do Kung Fu, Loonaloop, The Rooseville Band, 6ix Toys, The James Warner Prophecies, Psychobaby, Paradise 9, Smoke Like A Fish, Toejam 5, The Martin Harley Band, Dead Like Harry, Static Root, Cartoon Violence, Trader, Sub:Plate, Blindsyde, Hanery's Funeral Shoe, A470, Mal Webb, Coaching The Obese, Andy Buclaw, Charlie Chuck, Little Eris, Smoking Shadows, Kilnaboy, The Don Bradmans, 10 Ton tongue, Forcenra!, and more. For the line-up details as available please click here.

A festival to suit all ages, there'll be eight venues with live music (celtic, world, indie, reggae, ska, dance electronica), plus a chilled out, outdoor Green Crafts field and a calming Healing Area.

There will also be cabaret, film, DJs, workshops, bizarre walkabout, a kids area and kids' entertainment, alternative energy, stalls and cafes, bar, a healing area and green crafts.

Adult weekend tickets are on sale priced at £69 for the weekend, £39 youth (13-17), and tickets for children aged under 12 go free but need a ticket, car parking tickets available in advance and will be more expensive to buy one on the day. Day tickets are also available priced at £25 for Friday, £30 for Saturday, and £20 for Sunday. To buy tickets, click here.

There are also group discounts where festival goers can buy 4 tickets and get 1 free, as well as family tickets for 2 Adults and 2 Youths priced at £185 for the whole weekend inc camping.

Gates open at noon on Friday and close 6pm Sunday.

All profit from the Workhouse Festival goes to support the Llanfyllin Workhouse project - a charitable environmentally sustainable community project. Workhouse prioritises local traders to reduce food miles and makes every effort to re-use or recycle materials and the festival's power is sourced from ecotricity and from renewable sources.

This year there is an all new Main Stage, a larger outdoor saddlespan stage from Roustabout. Returning will be the Cabaret Tent, fully equipped as with a cocktail bar, and the Electronik Boutique (Dance Tent). As does The Green Crafts, and Healing Area.

The Courtyard stage is packed full of local youth talent. Families, younger festival goers or just those with a taste for the sillier side of life will enjoy the Kid's Arena. Based around the circus tent it's full of creative workshops, puppets, stories, music, silly science, big games and lots of colourful characters to while away the afternoons with.

The custom made cinema will be screening a carefully selected variety of shorts, feature and documentary films from around the globe. The cinema offers a portal into new worlds from some of the best young, up and coming and radical film making talent.

There'll be more information when available.

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