Wychwood Festival 2024

Wychwood Festival 2024 - Wychwood stage
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Wychwood Festival 2024

Friday 31st May to Sunday 2nd June 2024
Cheltenham Racecourse, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 4SH, England MAP
Tier 3 adult tickets from £149.50 on-sale now
Daily capacity: 7,500
Last updated: Mon 15th Apr 2024

Wychwood Festival is a very family-friendly, intimate and inclusive for audience and musician alike, blending world, roots and contemporary music, and encouraging new collaborations. There's also comedy, workshops, lots of childrens activities, and more.

Wychwood returns to Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire from Friday 31st May until Sunday 2nd June 2024

Line-up

Sister Sledge will kick off Wychwood on Friday night and will be joined by Corrine Bailey Rae.

Texas, one of the UK's most loved bands, will headline Saturday 1st June. Indie legends The Coral will be warming the stage for them

Hugely popular, enduring indie favourites, Ocean Colour Scene will headline Sunday 2nd June.

Joining Ocean Colour Scene on Sunday, Seasick Steve returns to the UK. And celebrating 35 years of pure joy and over 8 million records sold, Lightning Seeds will take the Sunday sunset slot.

Also performing are The Bootleg Beatles, the world's premier Beatles tribute band.

Confirmed for their second stage 'The Garden': Deadletter, Dutch indie band Pip Blom and Welsh psych-rock band CVC and Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard.

Local nature-loving band, Stornoway, will headline The Garden on Friday Night with legendary bassist Peter Hook & The Light returning to Wychwood to headline the stage on Saturday night.

Hot off the back of 2023's Top 10 selling album The Feminine Divine, Kevin Rowland's Dexy's (formerly Dexy's Midnight Runners) will close the Sunday night in style.

Also appearing across the weekend are The Feeling, multi-platinum selling pop band The Hoosiers, Sunderland Punk quartet The Futureheads, Scottish powerhouse Callum Beattie and fan favourites Thrill Collins.

Tickets

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Tickets are on sale on a tiered system, currently priced as follows (+fees):

Adult Tier 3:  from £149.50
Child (10-15)  Tier 3: £74.50
Child (Under10) : free
Under 10s: free but require a ticket

For the various extra's please use the link above.

Kids entertainment

Wychwood offers fantastic fun for kids, and hosts a literary festival with authors and illustrators, kids' favourite characters, a multitude of making things, playing with stuff, learning, education, workshops, dance, and much more, and all free with no need to sign up, just drop in and join in the fun.

Kids Literature Festival

The Lit Fest tent is expected to return and once again feature kids authors and illustrators.

Workshops

There are numerous workshop venues, and with over 60 occurring through the weekend both inside and out for adults, kids and families featuring dance, theatre, fitness, nature, musicianship, singing, puppetry, photography, circus skills arts and crafts and much more.

Plus out and about around the site there will be walkabout performers, clay modelling, under the canopy creations, a graffiti wall and face painting.

Additional info

Wychwood is a festival not only of music, but crammed full of other things for attendees to see and do, from comedy to cinema, and from workshops to the healing gardens, and attracts all generations to enjoy a weekend of easy festival going.

The festival is expected to continue with the same camping set up, whereby you will be able to drive up to your camping pitch, and unload your camping gear right by where you are setting up. The campsite is flat, and always in great condition. Then emptied cars must be driven off the campsite and to the car park. After the festival, you'll be able to drive back to your pitch to load up.


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