Melton Winter Festival
A free Christmas Folk Trail strings live acoustic music through the pubs and tea rooms of a Leicestershire market town across a full December weekend.
Melton Mowbray is a genuinely rewarding food destination: a working livestock market, award-winning brewery, centuries-old pie and cheese traditions with formal protected status, multiple CAMRA-listed pubs, and busy street markets on Tuesdays and Saturdays make this one of the most substantive market towns in the East Midlands.
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"A free and friendly folkie takeover of 13 atmospheric venues with Morris dancing, sing-arounds and an outdoor market stage across the old market town."
Melton Folk Festival
"The village of Heather, Kings Award winner, goes cheerfully insane each August as gardens fill with hundreds of scarecrows depicting celebrities and topical characters, all competing for votes from the crowds who walk the trail with a guide booklet."
Heather Scarecrow Festival
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A Leicestershire village fills its gardens, drives and lamp posts with over a hundred themed scarecrows each August Bank Holiday, inviting visitors to walk the trail and vote for their favourite over three days."
Desford Scarecrow Festival
"The self styled Rural Capital of Food throws its October festival around the pork pie and the Stilton, with one of the largest gatherings of artisan cheesemakers in the country."
Melton Mowbray Food Festival
"After a hare pie is scrambled, two villages battle to carry small barrels across streams in a no-rules contest."
Hallaton Bottle Kicking and Hare Pie Scramble
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A Midlands agricultural show with over a century of tradition, combining cattle, sheep, horse and show jumping competitions with a family entertainment programme at its rural Leicestershire ground."
Ashby Show
"A well-loved Peak District village custom in the heart of the Hope Valley, where Bradwell's community gathers each August to display and bless its hand-crafted petal mosaics."
Bradwell Well Dressing
"For one Sunday the whole village of Leadenham fills with unpaid musicians, dancers and storytellers performing across indoor and outdoor stages purely as a labour of love."
Day of Lincolnshire Folk
"One of the highest-altitude well dressings in Derbyshire, Taddington's boards are dressed and displayed in a windswept limestone plateau village above the Wye Valley."
Taddington Well Dressing
"Where exceptional arts, courageous activism and open-hearted belief meet in a stately home's parkland, holding its final festival at Boughton before moving home."
Greenbelt
"Five thousand people explore old cabins, dilapidated buildings and woodland in a forgotten Lincolnshire village over August Bank Holiday, soundtracked by international house, techno and electronica with fire-cooked banquets in the forest."
Lost Village Festival
"The UK's first employee-owned festival is a seriously silly, radically sustainable, meat-free adventure in utopia set in the grounds of a Northamptonshire hall."
Shambala Festival