Hawkwind, The Damned, & Ken Boothe for Rhythm Festivals

Hawkwind, The Damned, Ken Boothe, The Slackers, and Wilko Johnson lead the first acts to be confirmed for next summer's Rhythm Festivals 2012 held over the August bank holiday weekend at Mansion House, Old Warden Park, near Biggleswade, in Bedfordshire which has been 3 Festivals in 1.

The first acts confirmed for Friday 24th August for the Rhythm Festival are Hawkwind, Americans The Slackers, and The Beat. The Folk Festival are Peatbog Faeries, and from Australia The Wishing Well, whilst the first act confirmed for the Rhythm & Blues Festival is Wilko Johnson.

On Saturday 25th August the Rhythm Festival hosts The Damned, and Jamaica's Dennis Alcapone.

Heading for Rhythm Festival on Sunday 26th August is Jamaica's Ken Boothe, David Rodigan, and John Otway Big Band, with Crosstown Lightnin' (featuring Charles Shaar Murray) announced for the Rhythm & Blues Festival.

Most of the three festival's headliners are yet to be booked and will be announced in the New Year.

Rhythm Festivals offers three days of three festivals in one plus a host of 'fringe events', will return for its seventh year over August bank holiday, from Friday 24th until Sunday 26th August 2012 at Mansion House, Old Warden Park, near Biggleswade, in Bedfordshire.

All three festivals will operate simultaneously over the August Bank Holiday Weekend in different parts of the same 500 acre site, with some shared facilities (children's entertainment; camping, toilets and showers; certain bars and entertainment) plus unique, specialist stuff in the Folk and Blues Fields. A "Land Train" is being booked to ferry people around.

Says Festival Director Jim Driver, "This really is an exciting an innovative idea. Rhythm Festival Pass holders will have access to the whole site - much more than before - but if people want to spend less and just visit a Folk or a Blues Festival, they have the option. Rhythm Folk and Rhythm & Blues will be self-contained weekend events in their own right." He also says that he and his team are currently working hard on improving facilities at Old Warden Park, near Biggleswade to make them the best at any UK music event, bar none. Adding, "There's going to be so much more than at any previous year. More stages, more entertainment, more bars, more fun!"

An early bird adult all events weekend ticket is priced at £99 (includes free youth/ child when bought together) with additional youth/child (aged 5-17 years) tickets priced at £60. Infants (under 5 years) are free when accompanied by adult ticket-holders. Camping and accommodation extra.

A Rhythm Folk Festival or Blues Festival Pass only pass (bought before 31/05/12) is priced at £70, with youth/child (aged 5-17 years) tickets priced at £35.

Camping is priced at £36 per tent, a caravan/campervan ticket is priced at £50, and a single room with 3 nights basic student accommodation with bed & breakfast (one person only) is priced at £75.

Tickets will soon be on sale for individual events (probably priced at £60-£75 for the weekend) and there will be a combined pass for all three events costing around the price of two.

Early Bird All Festival weekend tickets will stay at £99 until 1,000 has been sold and then the price will rise to £119. Day tickets are not yet on sale.

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