Olney Town Fireworks
Organised by the community group The Olney Group, this annual display by an award-winning pyrotechnics company draws the whole market town together on the Sunday nearest bonfire night, with funfair rides and food stalls.
A genuine small market town with one of the finest medieval spires in the region, a proper Thursday market, independent shops along one of England's widest high streets, and just enough history around Cowper, Newton and Amazing Grace to reward a deliberate visit.
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Found Festival
"Women in aprons and headscarves race from the market place to the church flipping pancakes, run since 1445."
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EdleFest
"Eight days, 400 events, 20 venues across a Kentish coastal town. Concerts, ceilidhs, a parade and over 160 free events. The kind of week that makes a modest seaside town briefly essential."
Broadstairs Folk Week
"Fairport Convention host a vast folk-rock reunion in a field beside this Oxfordshire canal village each August."
Fairport's Cropredy Convention
"A small, inclusive festival that feels like a weekend-long party, with daily singarounds, sessions and workshops where everyone is invited to play a part."
White Horse Folk Festival
"A friendly small scale singing festival in the Surrey countryside where everyone learns a cappella harmonies entirely by ear and ends the weekend performing them around a campfire."
SingFest
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Biddenden Dole
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