Thaxted Festival
Forty years of world-class orchestral, folk and jazz music performed in a soaring medieval wool church at the heart of one of Essex's most perfectly preserved small towns.
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"Pete Tye Farm at Abberton on the Essex coast has hosted this community show for over ninety years, combining the five parishes of Abberton, Langenhoe, Peldon and the Wigboroughs in a day of livestock, produce, stalls and main ring entertainment that remains entirely and proudly local."
Five Parishes Show
"West Mersea Island has held its town regatta since 1838 and the August event on the Blackwater estuary combines sailing races with watersports and a fireworks finale, an evening on an island famous for its oysters where the Essex marshes glow gold in the late summer light."
West Mersea Town Regatta
"Each August Bank Holiday, the medieval church of St Peter ad Vincula in this Essex wool town is transformed into a themed spectacle of flowers that has dazzled visitors for over three decades."
Coggeshall Flower Festival
"The town famous for its sea salt fills the quayside with street food from around the world, craft beer, artisan cheese, cider and gin bars over August Bank Holiday weekend."
Maldon Food and Drink Festival
"Five days of real ale among the steam engines and the great brick viaduct at the East Anglian Railway Museum, the village beer festival that comes with platforms."
Chappel Beer Festival
"The whole of the old seaport town rings with hearty singing as shanty crews from around the world fill pubs, boats and historic buildings with songs of the sea."
Harwich International Shanty Festival
"A fortnight of concerts, masterclasses and ensemble music-making at Gresham's School in the Georgian market town of Holt, continuing the tradition of the renowned Dartington International Summer School in a Norfolk setting."
Music Summer School and Festival
"The final ever edition of a 40-year tradition brings Renaissance and Baroque voices to the ancient wool-trade churches of Lavenham, Kersey and Clare for one last magnificent farewell."
Suffolk Villages Festival
"A weekend festival drawing poets from across the world to the Suffolk coast each November, with readings, talks and performances filling Aldeburgh's Jubilee Hall and seafront venues in one of England's most concentrated celebrations of poetry."
Poetry in Aldeburgh
"A man hidden under five stone of twisted straw dances through a Fenland town leading molly and clog sides, before the bear is ceremonially burned the next day."
Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival
✦ Weird and Wonderful"The classical festival founded by Benjamin Britten, centred on the concert hall at Snape Maltings."
Aldeburgh Festival
"Fairies, alchemists, water nymphs and wizards take over a moated Tudor manor's gardens for a weekend of enchanted imagination where dressing up is warmly expected."
Magic Weekend at Kentwell Hall
✦ Weird and Wonderful