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Friday, 30 April 2010
WOOD Festival: Celebrating Music and Nature in Oxfordshire
Friday 21st May - Sunday 23rd May 2010
Wood is TRUCK Festival’s folkier, cleaner and greener younger brother. Created after the floods of 2007, it is a celebration of music and nature in the beautiful surroundings of Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. As Britain’s greenest festival, it will come as no surprise to learn that Wood runs on completely renewable energy, harnessing the power of the sun and wind as well as the people who attend the event. There will be composting toilets, showers heated by wood-burning stoves and a solar-powered stage, and as if that’s not enough, festival goers will also have the chance to dance the night away in a bicycle powered ‘discotheque’.
This year they will be piloting the Industry Green standard for the event to measure its carbon footprint and other impacts in tandem with the charity Julie's Bicycle. As well as a strong and diverse line-up of (mainly) acoustic acts, there will be opportunities for everyone, from children to grandparents, to participate. Throughout the course of the weekend there will be workshops covering singing, woodcraft, making wallets from orange juice cartons, and everything in between. If the weather’s good, it will be well worth dusting the tent off and making a weekend of it.
So far, the Unthanks, Peggy Sue, Cate Le Bon and Frank Turner have been added to the bill for this year's Wood. They join Tuung, Fionn Regan and Martin Simpson as the first acts confirmed for this year's event, with Danny and the Champions of the World, Frontier Ruckus, Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou, Jali Fily Cissokho and Ora Cogan also heading down to Brazier's Park.
For more information about WOOD then please visit the official website.
