2008 Wychwood Festival line up

30 May 2008 - 1 June 2008, Cheltenham Racecourse

Since 2005 Cheltenham Racecourse plays host to Wychwood Music Festival, family friendly festival, featuring a mixture of music from world to folk, psychedelic pop to dance.

2008 Wychwood Music Festival promises a rare collaboration project - Folk/world supergroup The Imagined Village, featuring Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Sheila Chandra from Transglobal Underground, Andy Gangadeen from The Bays, Francis Hylton, Johnny Kalsi from The Dhol Foundation, Barney Morse Brown, Sheema Mukherjee and Chris Wood.

In addition to The Imagined Village there will be performances from The Proclaimers, The Blockheads, Duffy, indie up and comers Palladium, a touch of country from Truck favourites Piney Gir and the Country Roadshow and Oxford band The Epstein.

There will be more than 80 live acts, comedians, and over 100 workshops for all ages, where you will be able to learn Arabic dance, break dance, harmony singing, DJing, drumming, banner and mask making and much more. There will be open mic sessions for musicians and outdoor busking stage. There will be much fun for children as well, ranging from music and dance to storytelling. Other performances will include Flame fireshow, Youth circus, street arts show and puppet theatre. Local bands, such as Scene of My Demise and Blue Noise, will also be there to entertain spectators.

2008 WYCHWOOD FESTIVAL LINE UP

Friday

The Proclaimers
Robyn Hitchcock & the Psychedelic Trams
Dreadzone
Kasai Masai
Misty's Big Adventure
The Epstein
Air Cav
The Black Bloc
The Maladies of Bellafontaine
The Eden Four

Saturday
The Divine Comedy
Orchestra Baobab
Duffy
The Blockheads
School of Language
Spiers and Boden
Palladium
Kissmet
Chris Letcher
Piney Gir
Stornoway
Mor Karbasi
Marcus Bonfanti and the Bad Boys
Heavy Load
Desperately Not Yoko
The Loungs
Dirty Fakirs
Breaking the Illusion
Islands Lost at Sea
The New Delamores
Dan Collins & Dave Rigg
Rachael Kichenside
We See Lights
Ivan Campo
The Nearly Men

Sunday
Imagined Village
Kate Rusby
Transglobal Underground
Dengue Fever
Emma Pollock
Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset
3 Daft Monkeys
The Young Republic
Karen David
Richard Walters
Sleeping with the Fishes
The Red Bullets
The Travelling Band
It's a Buffalo
Rainbow Trout
The Tragics
The Steals
Isobel Heyworth
Kathryn Edwards
Butler Williams
Rook and The Ravens
Jenny Bromley

Tickets are £100 per adult for full weekend (includes camping), children under 12 free. Day tickets are £35 for Friday Day Ticket (Concession £20), £50 Saturday Day Ticket (Concession £35), and £40 for Sunday Day Ticket (Concession £25). Tickets can be purchased from Cheltenham Town Hall.

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