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CW Stoneking for Wilderness Festival

late addition for Cornbury Park

By Scott Williams | Published:

Wilderness 2011 - CW Stoneking
Photo credit: Andy Pitt


CW Stoneking has been announced for the new Wilderness festival, set to be held in just over a weeks at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire from Friday 12th until Sunday 14th August.

CW Stoneking
The Australian born calypso blues singer, and his band, The Primitive Horn Orchestra have been added to a line-up that includes Antony And The Johnsons, Mercury Rev, Gogol Bordello, Laura Marling, Toots And The Maytals, Daniel Johnston, The Low Anthem, Dry The River, Guillemots, The Urban Voodoo Machine, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Hayseed Dixie, chefs Skye Gyngell and Sam and Sam Clark from Moro, The Old Vic Tunnels, Tax Deductible Theatre Company, Factory Theatre, Bristol Natural History Consortium, Headspace and Boutique Babysitting. The Secret Garden Party will be presiding over a late-night concept party on the Friday night, titled 'Where The Wild Things Are', they promise to transform an ancient forest clearing into a theatrical landscape of make-believe with the help of resident performers Tax Deductible, The Artful Badger and The Feast of Fools.

The Last Tuesday Society host their first ever headline show at a UK festival with a Midnight Masked Ball on Saturday night with multi-tented extravaganza of weird and wonderful entertainments including ballroom dancing, late night story-telling, puppet theatre, processional bands, séances and life drawing classes.

For the full details as available, see here.

The family-friendly Wilderness is being held from Friday 12th until Sunday 14th August at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire and intends to bring together "music, food, learning, literature and rejuvenation".

Early bird adult weekend camping tickets are priced at £99.50. Early Bird family tickets (two adults, two children) are priced at £250, children aged 10 years and younger go free. To buy tickets click here.