Charlbury Riverside Festival 2010

Saturday 19th to Sunday 20th June 2010
Charlbury, Oxfordshire, OX7 3QG, England MAP
FREE

Last updated: Fri 18th Jun 2010

The Charlbury Riverside Festival is now in its fifteenth year, and the organisers claim that it's the largest FREE festival of its type in Oxfordshire. Charlbury returns on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June.

Line-up

The acts confirmed are:

Saturday

Main Stage: Borderville, Family Machine, Charly Coombes & The New Breed, Delta Frequency, Cracker Dummy, David Celia, Music For Pleasure, and Deer Chicago.
Second Stage: Beard of Zeus, Undersmile, The Roundheels, Huck & The Handsome Fee, Stuart Turner & The Flat Earth Society, Barbare 11a, Black Dog Emporium, and Alan Fraser & The Resignation Orchestra.

Sunday

Main Stage: The Quiet Men, The Mighty Redox, Dead Like Harry, The Black Hats, Billypure, The Prohibition Smokers' Club, Alphabet Backwards, and Slainte.
Second Stage: Phyal, The Stripe Whites, Von Braun, Shakellers, Alyse in Wonderland, Sonny Black, and Ioneye.

More than 30 bands playing across two stages, rock, indie, jazz, and folk.

Expect music to start on Saturday at 2pm going through until about 10pm. Events on Sunday begin at noon 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.

On site

As well as two stages, a smorgasbord of food stalls on site with a pig roast and stalls selling burgers and baguettes, hot dogs, noodles, curries and crepes, and 45 portaloos! But despite the work involved and the cost of putting on an event of this size, the festival is still run entirely by volunteers and still free for all to enter. It's a truly family-friendly festival, with a dedicated kid's area kitted out with a bouncy castle and activities.

Restrictions

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. No camping at the festival, see website for information on nearby camp sites and hotels. No dogs other than assistance dogs.

How to get there

Entrance to the Festival site is down Mill Lane, virtually opposite Charlbury railway station. The station is on the London Paddington to Hereford and Worcester line, 15 minutes from Oxford. 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.

Accommodation

This event does not offer camping. The area has local hotels and B&Bs and there is the Cotswold View Caravan and Camping Park on the outskirts of Charlbury.