24 acts announced for badger themed Wood

Wood 2014

Friday 16th to Sunday 18th May 2014
Braziers Park , Ipsden, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 6AN , England MAP
£75 for adults, juniors (13-17) £65, child 12 and under free

Last updated: Tue 1st Apr 2014

The first 23 acts, and Saturday headliner Sweet Baboo have been announced for Wood, the festival celebrating music and nature, and boasting a Badger Theme which happens in the surroundings of Braziers Park, in Oxfordshire from Friday 16th until Sunday 18th May 2014.

Also confirmed are Alessi's Ark, Jackie Oates performing with Tristan Seume, Oliver Wilde, The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band will be closing the Sunday night, Belinda O'Hooley & Heidi Tidow, Nick Cope, Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou, Dreaming Spires, Co-Pilgrim, Rachael Dadd, Edd Keene, Nick Jonah Davis, Jali Fily Cissokho, and Paul McClure.

This year's bill will also include Vikesh Kapoor, Trent Miller, Jack Day, local acts Count Drachma, The Knights of Mentis, Julia Meijer, Art Theefe, Jordan O'Shea, Macamu making music for children, and Oxford Ukuleles are the first acts to be announced for the festival organised by the same people who also hold Truck festival. Expect a strong and diverse line-up of (mainly) acoustic acts performing on two stages.

Wood runs entirely on renewable energy and aims to highlight green issues and hopefully promote an ecologically friendly lifestyle, with things like composting toilets, showers heated by wood-burning stove, a people powered fairground, and a solar-powered stage and dancing into the night in a bicycle powered 'discotheque'.

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The early bird offer sold out. Weekend tickets are priced at £75 for adults which includes camping and all workshops. There is also a teen ticket for ages 13-17 priced priced £65, children aged 12 and under will be able to go along for free! Parking is priced at £10. Campervan tickets are priced at £40.

2014 will be Wood's 'Year Of The Badger'. The festival focuses on a different indigenous wild animal each year. Badgers are getting a particularly hard time at the moment with the government trying to shoot them all because of they haven't researched the spread of TB properly.

In the words of Kindling tent organizer (and environmental author) Hugh Warwick, “In a healthy environment you can have a healthy population of badgers; when it is degraded as it is by industrial farming, both badgers and livestock suffer.”

Wood will be highlighting their plight at the festival as well as all things wonderful about badgers and their very important role in the countryside.

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