exclusive: Wychwood Comedy Stage line-up revealed

We can exclusively reveal the comedy line-up for the Lil' Fat Comedy Stage in association with eFestivals.co.uk at Wychwood Festival in two week's time.

	Jarred Christmas

The MC for the weekend will be Wychwood regular Nick Page, with sharp gags mixed in with wonderful, and sadly true, stories.

On Friday Nick will be introducing Edinburgh Fringe festival favourite Anna Keirle. Joining her will be actor turned comedian Christian Steel, and Welsh comic Dan Mitchell.

The Saturday night comedy includes success story Sam Harland who turned his life around with comedy after years of drug addiction, rehab and detention centres. Also taking to the stage will be new comics Tony Simpson, Jonathan Elston, and Matt Richardson, alongside Liverpudlian-in-exile Silky.

Musical comedian, actress and writer Carly Smallman opens the Sunday night comedy with Jim Smallman, and Tony Law in support of headline act Jarred Christmas. Originally from New Zealand, but now living in the UK, Jarred has won the Chortle Comedy Award for Best Compere, appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Mock the Week and Celebrity Mastermind.

The final few stage spots have also been confirmed with reggae flavoured Baraka confirmed for the main stage bringing their musical fusion from Ghana, Senegal, Dominica, and Ireland.

Eastern European music collides with the dark traditions of East Anglian folklore on Friday with the addition of Three Beards, added to Saturday's line-up is Affairs, local band Simplistic Scientists on the Pomme Stage, and singer songwriter Chris Whiting will be performing on Sunday.

Bellowhead top the bill on Friday, James are Saturday night headliners, and The Saw Doctors Sunday headliners. Also confirmed are The Cuban Brothers, The Damned, Duke Special, Mahala Rai Banda, Sharon Shannon, Hawkwind, Muha, Dodgy, Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party, Gary J Armstrong, and Urusen, Thrill Collins, Doctor and the Medics, JuJu, The Magic Tombolinos, Howard Marks, Dizraeli and The Small Gods, The Fisherman's Friends, Dhol Foundation, Kathryn Roberts And Sean Lakeman, The Roving Crows, Show Of Hands, Simon Friend's Seismic Survey, Celtish, and more.

For young Wychwooders Cbeebies star Katy Ashworth will be appearing on Saturday at Wychwood, and there will be an opportunity to meet with her afterwards. Plus Nina & The Neurons will be storytelling on Sunday. Over the weekend, stars of Nick Junior, The Bopps, namely Keith Littler and Stan Bopp, will also be entertaining the little ones. Plus costume and activity events include Winnie the Witch, Where's Wally, and Floppy the Dog (from Oxford Reading Tree series).

Authors confirmed for the Literary Festival include Philip Ardagh, Tony de Saulles, K J Wignall, Ian Whybrow, Anna Wilson, John Dougherty, Elen Caldecott, Shoo Rayner, Jamila Gavin, Sally Grindley, Christopher Edge, Karen Langtree, David Lawrence Jones, Jaquie Trajan, and Cindy Jeffries.

For the line-up details, day and stage splits, as available please click here.

Wychwood also offer a selection of luxury camping options in their campsite this year. An adult weekend ticket is priced at £115, weekend disabled (2 for 1) tickets are priced at £115, youth (aged 16-18)/concession weekend tickets are priced at £95, 10-15 year old weekend tickets are priced at £55 and those under 5 can attend for free but need to be accompanied by a grown up.

General camping passes (charged per person) are priced at £20 for an adult weekend/disabled camping ticket, a weekend youth/concession camping pass is priced at £10, with those aged under 16s able to camp with grown ups for free.

To buy tickets simply call the festival on 01993 772580, or, click here.

eFestivals is again proud to be a sponsor of Wychwood Music Festival in 2012, as part of our commitment to put 10% of our turnover back into festivals.

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